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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Batty monitors and cheap video
Summary: Fisher Price Toy Camera
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Date: 11 Oct 89 14:08:21 GMT
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In article <BERGMAN.89Oct10164617@odin.m2c.m2c.org> bergman@m2c.m2c.org
(Michael Bergman) writes:
 >It occurs to me that it might be of interest to those as are following
 >this thread that I believe that the Fisher-Price "toy" video
 >camcorder uses this type of technology. Its
 >awful grainy though...a real video camera (just a camera) is only
 >~$130, so this may not be too useful.

The biggest problem with the FP camera is that it has a cheapo plastic lens and
uses Audio cassettes to record on.




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