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eyemodule camera

One of the attractions of the Visor, has to be the springboard modules. What a totally neat idea. The first modules released though, weren't really that interesting to me. The eyemodule on the other hand, was a really cool concept.

So, I own one of the original eyemodule cameras (there are two kinds now). It's very small, and adds very little size or weight to the Visor. The images it takes are pretty good for something so small, but you're not going to want to throw away your proper camera and rely on this.

It loves bright light conditions. If you would consider using a flash on your normal camera, don't even try with the eyemodule. The images may look okay on the screen, but they'll probably turn out speckly. But, in the right conditions, it works well, and can produce some great pictures.

The original eyemodule cameras can take three formats of pictures, small black and white - 120 x 160 pixels, large black and white - 240 x 320 and large colour - 240 x 320. The small black and white ones take about 9k of memory, the large black and white ones take around 40K and the colour ones around 180k. So, you can fit quite a lot of pictures into an 8MB visor. When we were on holiday in New Zealand, I had around 250 pictures in there, mostly little black and whites, but with 10 or so colour ones too.

The eyemodule 2 cameras can take short video clips too, these use up more memory obviously, and if using a colour visor then the film will be colour, otherwise it'll be black and white (sounds strange, but that's how it seems to be).

So, will I be trading my eyemodule 1 in for a 2? Not yet. I'm happy with the camera I have, and maybe the 3 will be even cooler.

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  • Eyemodule
    I have taken some very impressive pictures with this.
    Posted by Darren on 2002-07-04 10:22:40

  • Visor Eyemodule
    Small electronic marvels are my passion. If it makes my life better, I love it.
    Posted by Mark Viner on 2002-07-04 10:32:49

  • Eyemodule
    Yeah, it was fun to use(when it worked). In the first couple hours of use, the unit began to fail. Pictures started fading away on the screen, and then going out altogether. Eventually, the camera would not take or display pictures at all anymore, not even in viewfinder mode. I thought, maybe I just got unlucky. I received a replacement, and that worked for a day, but it too eventually gave me problems, such as horrible, negative-type image quality, off and on. Pressing lightly on certain spots on the camera\'s edge helped the picture quality, but only sometimes. When it did help, you had to hold it there or it wouldn\'t work anymore. So, now, I had 2 defective units on me! Thankfully, they refunded me my money back, but, the time and disappointment will make me think about buying anything from that manufacturer anytime soon. And they just released Eyemodule 2...oh boy.
    Posted by Justin on 2002-07-04 10:35:45

  • Handspring Eyemodule
    It\'s fun to use.
    Posted by Daniel Rutiman on 2002-07-04 10:37:56

  • eyemodule camera
    I love to compare items with this camera, I go shopping and take pics of similar items at different stores. Also used it to give my husband ideas about what to buy me for presents.
    Posted by Terry Gomez on 2002-08-24 05:42:38

  • Eyemodule
    I went to various sites and saw some GREAT pictures that were taken by the eyemodule, so I bought it. I am very disappointed with the picture quality. Everything is VERY grainy and the pictures don't look like the ones I saw online. The lighting inside was good and I even tried to take an outdoor shot of my address when the sun was out. I could barely read the numbers. The Prism is great, eyemodule sucks in my opinion.
    Posted by Frank on 2002-09-11 02:19:53

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