No matter what I did, the camera invariably stopped recording after about 5 seconds. Many stand-alone digital cameras will also take such movies . . . I had visions of Computerworld reporters filming interviews at conferences and posting them to our Web site. It captures sound and video remarkably well in MPEG-4 format. A 32M-byte card held nearly 12 minutes' worth.
File transfer is easy via the included floppy disk carrier.
Four AA batteries deliver about 45 minutes of constant use. Though the camera is neat, there's no good way to edit its video, and that makes it almost useless for real work. The built-in microphone aims off to the left, and you can't use a separate directional microphone. I tried every tool I could find to convert Viewcam files to an editable format. Nothing worked, and Sharp didn't respond to questions.