The LG Viewty (KU990) five megapixel camera phone (see left) — that can record video at an amazing 120 frames per second (four times faster than the “best” camera phones) — is able to record in the DivX format, according to LG. DivX is a well known codec that can compress video into relatively high quality images using MPEG-4 format.
For years many consumers have been talking and writing about their “crappy camera phone photos.” But with two megapixel camera phones — and high resolutions — poor quality still photos are becoming less of an issue….assuming the user has one of the better camera phones.
Good video recording quality is more difficult to accomplish than good quality photos. Most camera phones produce poor videos.
The higher quality camera phones from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and LG, among others, offer video recording at 30 frames per second. This is enough to produce rather good videos — if the lighting is sufficient and you know what you’re doing!
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As far as I know, the Viewty is the only camera phone that offers recording at 120 fps and now incorporates DivX capabilities. Just as camera phone photos are improving, so are videos.
But it will still take a few years until the typical camera phone produces good quality videos, let alone anything that comes close to the Viewty’s now-unique capabilities. I certainly would like to be able to test the Viewty’s 120 fps video recording capabilities!
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