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How To Find A Digital Video Camera Rental

You'd love to have a visual record of the next big family event, not just in still photographs, but in full motion. There's just something special about having a movie of an event with sound if you like, so that you get the full picture of what was going on, and not just the silent split seconds here and there that you can capture on a still camera.

Your digital camera does allow you to choose between an entire memory card full of photos, or a few minutes worth of video. Not much of a choice. But you cant afford to drop the price of a video camera, no matter how important the upcoming event is. So why not consider a digital video camera rental?

Digital video cameras now produce videos of such high quality that you can make several generations of copies from your original recording, and even the copi4es of the copies of the copies will look and sound as clear as the first. One of the big appeals of the digital video camera rental is that for the price of one rental you can supply all the guests with a treasured memory of the day.

The best way to ensure that your digital video camera rental will provide the best possible copies is to ask the associate at the rental store to demonstrate the resolution with which each camera records, by seeing a sample of recordings done by each of their different digital video camera rentals. Even the weakest of their digital video camera rentals will be light years ahead of your old home movies, but theres no point in settling for anything less than the best you can get.

Editing Your Video

In order to make copies of your master digital video recording, youll need access to a PC on which you can save the master and make copies. If you have the software to do it, you can even edit the digital video recording to delete the less interesting parts and focus on the more entertaining ones. But you should always do your editing on a copy, in case you dont like the result. Save the master recording as it was when you uploaded it from the digital video camera rental.

The chances of your having the necessary software, because you dont own a digital video camera, arent high. But dont let that discourage you; there is software available for download at no charge on the Internet and some of it might be perfect for editing your video.

You can also use a personal computer to research your digital video camera rental. You should be able to get a ball park estimate of how much a digital video camera with the features you want rents for, and the location of rental stores in your area that carry them.

Features To Ask For

Make sure you ask for, and get, a digital video camera rental. You most definitely do not want the video cameras which used VHS cassettes to record on. And make sure that your digital video camera rental has the amount of pixilation that you want. 680,000 pixels is the minimum you should settle for, and it really is the minimum. The greater the number of pixels, the clearer your video will be.

And ask about your digital video camera rentals light measuring devices, or CCDs. These are chips, and you need as many as you can get. The difference between a camera with one CCD chip and three CCD chips is, shall we say, like the difference between light and darkness?

Your digital video camera rental is the tool with which you will be building memories you can treasure for years to come. So do your homework, and make it the best tool you can possibly find!

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A Short History on Clocks

A question that could have been asked for thousands of years is, What time is it? Throughout history many devices have been invented to answer this question. From sundials to atomic clocks, mankind has pursued this quest.

In the earliest recorded times, the position of the sun in the sky gave the best indication of passing time. When the sun was directly overhead, it was midday. During night-time and cloudy times it was impossible to calculate the time of day using this method. People started using the shadow cast by an object in the sun to become more precise and to save their eyesight as they did not have to look up to the sun anymore. Egyptians are credited as being the first to construct larges obelisks to cast a shadow in about 3500BC. By 1500BC, refined sundials were in use. Another invention during these early times was the hourglass using water as the medium. These too had their limitations, particularly in calibration and changing temperatures. Sand was only introduced into the glass hourglasses in about 700AD.

Mechanical clocks were first invented in the 14th century. These timepieces used springs, levers and escapements and generally had no hands or faces, but simply chimed a bell on the hour. A little later the faces and hands appeared.

In the 15th century, coiled springs were developed and the size of clocks reduced significantly. It was also the coil spring that enabled the wrist watch to be later invented.

The clocks till this time were not very accurate, however the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656, by Christiaan Huygens, allowed accuracy to come into play. His pendulum clock was accurate to within one minute each day, rather than the fifteen minute accuracy of the earlier spring driven clocks.

Early in the next century, the British Parliament offered a substantial reward for someone to solve the problem of accurately defining longitude. There were many theories on how this could be done, and the two dominant theories relied on either the stars or an accurate timepiece. John Harrison eventually won the prize after a number of tries with a clock that lost only five seconds on six and a half weeks at sea.

During the 19th century with the industrial revolution in full swing, many advances were made enabling mass production of timepieces. The price of clocks came down significantly and they become common use items amongst the ordinary people. Watches were mainly pocket watches.

It was not until 1884 that most countries agreed to time zones, with clear relations between them. They are still in place today. Greenwich Mean Time is still regarded by many as the place where time starts.

Wrist watches were only worn by ladies at first, but during WW1 men started wearing them and it was not long before wristwatches become more common than pocket watches. It has been said that the soldiers found wristwatches much more suitable than pocket watches during that war.

Since the 1960s most watches are now powered by a quartz movement rather than a spring movement. These watches are significantly cheaper and are very accurate. GPS units, fish finders, mobile phones and many other interesting gadgets can now be built into wristwatches. Where will it end?

There will no doubt be further advances in mans quest to answer the question, What time is it more accurately.

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