I just bought a small and very cheap (£30) video camera, so here’s a quick review I produced with it.

According to PC World’s website, it’s the “Disgo DV3 1GB SD Camcorder”, according to the packaging it’s just “Disgo Video”. What appears to be almost exactly the same thing (except it’s got a white front, not black) is sold by Maplin as the “Busbi Digital Video Camcorder”.

It shoots 320×240 video (30fps), fixed-focus, no zoom, very minimal controls. Comes with a 1gb SD card which will fit just over an hour. The video files produced are AVI files using MJPEG compression, audio is mono 12kHz ADPCM.

Editing was done with the included ArcSoft VideoImpression software.

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