I’ve been insanely busy and tired (hmm, are those two connected?), so I’ve been a bit behind in putting up some video from my trip (and from my T7). I’ll post some more later, but for now, here’s a 22 second (28MB!) 640x480x30fps video that shows what the quality of the video can be (this is in ‘Fine’ mode. The ‘Standard’ mode is much more reasonable).

OK, and here’s a short clip w/ Mark Allen in standard mode (11s @ 640x480x25fps, 3.9MB, 354KB/s data rate). I believe that half of the videos I’ve taken now have either VO of me talking about the video capture or of people asking me about it:

So here’s the skinny on the T7:

• Love the form factor, it’s an incredible carry-everywhere camera
• Still blown away by it’s video capability
• Screen is ginormous and insanely clear/bright, good in all but the brightest daylight
• Bootup in about a second, zero shutter lag
• Starts getting pretty noisy at 200, tops off at a very noisy 400 ISO
• Amazing that it’s a 3X optical lens, but poky @ 3.5f-4.4f
• Battery life is a bit low, a few hundred shots, or less than an hour of w/ video
• No zooming while recording. Boo-urns

Worth it for $500? You bet. Only thing that would be better is if it had wi-fi or 3G support for instant uploading.