cheroke55 wrote:Mine was Friday Pisces FTW!

mine is monday

PI DAY

Way to stop the wootoff early.

michaelt452 wrote:WootOff on my birthday?! Jeez Woot! you shouldn't have. (Actually, you should have. Good job!)

Hey! HBD, and my lights flash unto you.

It comes with a Schindler's List for crying out loud!

4 items and two cameras already? C'mon!!

paltex9 wrote:I got about 4 of these, 2 of them went swimming with me and didnt make it back. Great zoom.

Then buy 3 to replace them, quick!

Just bought this camera for 149.99, I love it!! Great optical zoom and great quality pics!! Really great value at $119.99!

sdc100 wrote:re: taking videos,
this is superior to the Panasonic Lumix that sold out 2 days ago.

First, it uses MP4 instead of MOV, which is much more compatible in the WIndows world. Ther eis no Free or Shareware program that I know of that can edit MOV, but many newer one allow MP4.

More importantly, it uses H.264 compression while the Panasonic used much older Motion JPEG compression. H.264 is roughly 4x more efficient which means that you can fit 4x as much video in the same memory with similar quality. I was suprised that he relatively upscale PPanasonic used MJPEG. Likewise, you're not gonna find another camera under $120 that uses H.264.

And if my experience with cheaper Samsungs is correct, this is one of the few cameras that allow Pausing during video. I'm not positive though. YOu can also zoom,

That's all great, but is it good for my hobby of capturing "warts in still life"?

rpdnplstk wrote:i have never actually been present at the beginning of a woot off. it's both thrilling and incredibly boring all at once!

And at the end of the Woot-Off the thrill is gone but you'll still have the boredom!

Hmmm, kind of like the 9th wedding anniversary...

Did some camera mogul die and leave woot his fortune? There have been an abnormal amount of the clicky-snappies lately

yeah, well this slowed to a crawl. Night, maybe I'll be an ipad over at sell out...

Is it typical during a wootoff for the quality posts to be non-sequiturs and comments that generally encourage rampant consumerism? I haven't been around for many wootoffs, but the quality post column is markedly devoid of any useful product information or reviews that might make for an informed purchase, which, I guess, isn't the whole point of a wootoff anyway. Carry on.

Is it wrong that I am more excited about buying more monkeys (come on snow leopard, and fire) for my man cave then about anything else this Woot off can offer me (yes that includes the Big o' Cosmos, unless it is a bag of monkeys) ????

And FYI Woot my birthday is the 1st of July.¦]

Damn slow start to the WOOT-OFF!

if only newton was around to combine the greatest mind of the 20th century with that of the 21st...

BensonM wrote:This is an awesome camera.

If you get two of them, and duct-tape them together, you can take pictures in 3D!

http://www.rpm.or.jp/home/h-kouno/3dphoto2.htm

If you get 3, it follows logically that you can take pictures in 4 dimensions!

Get 3 of these awesome cameras!!!

No - No- did they just start a Woot-Off or has it been going on? I just took sleeping pills - I'm gonna' miss it!!

Will this take naked pictures of a Mac?

What's up? You have three of these for sale and you're having trouble getting a third person to bite?

well for the first time in my career i am able to see the begining of a woot off....I guess the trip to India has paid off for me this time.

dealfaro wrote:BEST CAMERA EVER BUILT!!! Buy, Buy, Buy!...and we can get on with the Wootoff!!

What Dealfaro doesn't understand is, some of us need a long-winded item on the Woot Off because we need these perfect moments to get some sleep!

fantom3993 wrote:That's all great, but is it good for my hobby of capturing "warts in still life"?

You're probably kidding but I'm in medical research and I do take macro photos of skin lesions weekly. Based on the specs, it probably can capture "warts in still life" just fine. Heck, my mom uses her much cheaper Casio to email photos of a mysterious lesion to her physicians all the time. Happy wart hunting.

PS - use high contrast to show depth...

buckbrown97 wrote:well for the first time in my career i am able to see the begining of a woot off....I guess the trip to India has paid off for me this time.

This is your career? What kinda bag o' crap is that?

corrosivesubstance wrote:Did some camera mogul die and leave woot his fortune? There have been an abnormal amount of the clicky-snappies lately

They had a million at the last woot where they sold these. There are a half a million more.
Get ready for a nap.
It's a good camera though. 4 stars on Amazon

werthr wrote:What's up? You have three of these for sale and you're having trouble getting a third person to bite?

I was the second to bite. I missed out on the Panasonic Lumix two days ago by a few minutes so this is Woot's way of compensating me...

Oops, I was a bit late getting here & missed out already.

Wow, mighty fine job Woot in continuing all the very good deals for over a constant week including both weekends.

Thanks for this great deal, too!

ThunderThighs wrote:It's the one time when I get to have fun. Please don't begrudge me my one little happiness in my whole wide world.

I did come full circle in my understanding and reach enlightenment as I was typing - hence the "carry on" at the end. Have fun! It must take a ton of planning ahead of time to get these set up so you deserve your night of immoderate moderation.

it looks like a decent camera, why dont you people stop sucking and buy one already?

ThunderThighs wrote:It's the one time when I get to have fun. Please don't begrudge me my one little happiness in my whole wide world.

You made her cry! Apologize NOW!!

Ok, I "took one for the team" and bought one... the rest of you: step it up, so we can get onto something new!

sdc100 wrote:re: taking videos,
this is superior to the Panasonic Lumix that sold out 2 days ago.

First, it uses MP4 instead of MOV, which is much more compatible in the WIndows world. Ther eis no Free or Shareware program that I know of that can edit MOV, but many newer one allow MP4.

More importantly, it uses H.264 compression while the Panasonic used much older Motion JPEG compression. H.264 is roughly 4x more efficient which means that you can fit 4x as much video in the same memory with similar quality. I was suprised that he relatively upscale PPanasonic used MJPEG. Likewise, you're not gonna find another camera under $120 that uses H.264.

And if my experience with cheaper Samsungs is correct, this is one of the few cameras that allow Pausing during video. I'm not positive though. YOu can also zoom,

Try AnyVideoConverter....it does pretty much any type of conversion, and it Is Free!

Have a Woot-Off, Mr.Goldstone...
Have a Samsung, Have Two!
Mr. Goldstone We Love You!

12 Megapixels!? That's like 1 megapixel a month!

jeebus and his technicolor dreamcoat when is this one going to pass??? On a side note, I imagine this camera will capture the vivid-ness of said dreamcoat quite nicely.

michaelt452 wrote:WootOff on my birthday?! Jeez Woot! you shouldn't have. (Actually, you should have. Good job!)

According to Facebook, it's also Compliment a Girl on Her Boobs Day

belowi wrote:Is it typical during a wootoff for the quality posts to be non-sequiturs and comments that generally encourage rampant consumerism? I haven't been around for many wootoffs, but the quality post column is markedly devoid of any useful product information or reviews that might make for an informed purchase, which, I guess, isn't the whole point of a wootoff anyway. Carry on.

Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head at the end there.

That said, when items go slow (like this one) later in the day, there's usually so insanely much traffic of random kitten/Pan-galactic Gargleblasters/etc. that if anyone does post useful information, the staff would have a rough time finding it (and they're probably also kept busy policing content, too).

Which is probably why there are often no quality posts tagged at all.



(And my sincerest apologies to anyone who gets injured by a rampant consumer because of my suggestions of 4D imaging.)