Hi all

In this artical I am going to review the PSP camera and the software that came with it in the 3.00 update (I am not reviewing the UMD software, it is the software that came with 3.00)

Camera



Specifications

Name - chotto shot
Weight - 15g
Price - £30, $43, 5,000 yen
Resolution - 1.3 megapixel

Software

The software that came with the 3.00 Update is located under the Photo menu of the XMB, you must first plug the camera in to the USB socket before you can run the software.

Photo mode

When you start the software from the XMB the camera starts up in photo mode, the basic controls are..

• L button to look at other pictures you have taken
• Up and down buttons to zoom in or out
• R button to take photo
• Triangle to bring up the options menu
• Select takes you to movie mode
• Circle takes you back to the XMB

When you are looking at the screen to take the photo at the bottom there are details displayed about your current settings

• Where you have chosen to sace ur photos to
• What image quality you have
• Chosen picture size
• White balance option
• It also displays a sort of help thing where it tells you which buttons to press

The camera in photo mode has a X2.8 digital zoom and the pictures are saved in .jpeg format

If you press triangle a menu of options appear on the screen like in the music player, video player and picture viewer and these options for the photo mode are...

• Record - Takes a photo
• To movie mode - takes you to movie mode
• Review - Lets you look at all other taken photos while still on the camera
• Settings - Lets you choose main settings including to change the shutter sounds, there are a selection of 5 shutter sounds to choose from, There is also the option to choose where you store your taken photos and there is a reset file number option
• Display - This either displays your chosen settings and help text or either hide this information
• Zoom in
• Zoom out
• Image size - choose from 320 X 240, 480 X 272, 640 X 480 and 1280 X 960
• Image quality - Fine quality or standard quality
• White balance - This is where you choose what type of enviroment you take your photo in, if you wanted to take a photo in daylight you will choose the daylight option, If you are in dark places you can either have Fluorescent or Incandescent or if your not sure what to choose put it in automatic and the camera should do all the work for you
• Exposure adjustment - goes from -1.5 to + 1.5
• Effect - This chooses the type of mode you want your camera to be in you can either have sketch, toy camera, Distortion, text ot you can just have it normal

That is all the details of the software in camera mode, on to movie mode.

Video mode

When you press select or go to movie mode from photo mode the basic controls are..

• L to review taken videos
• R to record video
• Select to go back to photo mode
• Triangle to bring up the options menu
• Circle to go back to the XMB

When you are in movie mode and looking at the screen just like in photo mode it displays your settings at the bottom of the screen, it displays..

• Movie film type
• Image quality
• where you save your videos to
• how much you have recored (timer)

The camera in Movie mode has a X1.4 digital zoom and the videos are saved as motion jpeg format video and also this peice of built in software lets you record an unlimited amount of video provided that you have space on your memory stick.

Just like in photo mode if you press triangle a menu comes up like in the music player, movie player and the photo viewer, the options on this menu are...

• Record - Start Recording video
• To photo mode - Takes you to photo mode
• Review - Lets you look at videos you have taken while still on the camera
• Settings - Lets you choose main settings including to change the shutter sounds, there are a selection of 5 shutter sounds to choose from, There is also the option to choose where you store your taken photos and there is a reset file number option
• Display - This either displays your chosen settings and help text or either hide this information
• Zoom in
• Zoom out
• Movie size - This is where you choose how big your video is you can choose from 320 X 240 (15fps), 320 X 240 (30 fps), 480 X 272 (15fps) and 480 X 272 (30fps)
• Image quality - you can choose from fine quality or standard quality
• White balance - This is where you choose what type of enviroment you take your photo in, if you wanted to take a photo in daylight you will choose the daylight option, If you are in dark places you can either have Fluorescent or Incandescent or if your not sure what to choose put it in automatic and the camera should do all the work

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Hi all

In this artical I am going to review the PSP camera and the software that came with it in the 3.00 update (I am not reviewing the UMD software, it is the software that came with 3.00)

Camera



Specifications

Name - chotto shot
Weight - 15g
Price - £30, $43, 5,000 yen
Resolution - 1.3 megapixel

Software

The software that came with the 3.00 Update is located under the Photo menu of the XMB, you must first plug the camera in to the USB socket before you can run the software.

Photo mode

When you start the software from the XMB the camera starts up in photo mode, the basic controls are..

• L button to look at other pictures you have taken
• Up and down buttons to zoom in or out
• R button to take photo
• Triangle to bring up the options menu
• Select takes you to movie mode
• Circle takes you back to the XMB

When you are looking at the screen to take the photo at the bottom there are details displayed about your current settings

• Where you have chosen to sace ur photos to
• What image quality you have
• Chosen picture size
• White balance option
• It also displays a sort of help thing where it tells you which buttons to press

The camera in photo mode has a X2.8 digital zoom and the pictures are saved in .jpeg format

If you press triangle a menu of options appear on the screen like in the music player, video player and picture viewer and these options for the photo mode are...

• Record - Takes a photo
• To movie mode - takes you to movie mode
• Review - Lets you look at all other taken photos while still on the camera
• Settings - Lets you choose main settings including to change the shutter sounds, there are a selection of 5 shutter sounds to choose from, There is also the option to choose where you store your taken photos and there is a reset file number option
• Display - This either displays your chosen settings and help text or either hide this information
• Zoom in
• Zoom out
• Image size - choose from 320 X 240, 480 X 272, 640 X 480 and 1280 X 960
• Image quality - Fine quality or standard quality
• White balance - This is where you choose what type of enviroment you take your photo in, if you wanted to take a photo in daylight you will choose the daylight option, If you are in dark places you can either have Fluorescent or Incandescent or if your not sure what to choose put it in automatic and the camera should do all the work for you
• Exposure adjustment - goes from -1.5 to + 1.5
• Effect - This chooses the type of mode you want your camera to be in you can either have sketch, toy camera, Distortion, text ot you can just have it normal

That is all the details of the software in camera mode, on to movie mode.

Video mode

When you press select or go to movie mode from photo mode the basic controls are..

• L to review taken videos
• R to record video
• Select to go back to photo mode
• Triangle to bring up the options menu
• Circle to go back to the XMB

When you are in movie mode and looking at the screen just like in photo mode it displays your settings at the bottom of the screen, it displays..

• Movie film type
• Image quality
• where you save your videos to
• how much you have recored (timer)

The camera in Movie mode has a X1.4 digital zoom and the videos are saved as motion jpeg format video and also this peice of built in software lets you record an unlimited amount of video provided that you have space on your memory stick.

Just like in photo mode if you press triangle a menu comes up like in the music player, movie player and the photo viewer, the options on this menu are...

• Record - Start Recording video
• To photo mode - Takes you to photo mode
• Review - Lets you look at videos you have taken while still on the camera
• Settings - Lets you choose main settings including to change the shutter sounds, there are a selection of 5 shutter sounds to choose from, There is also the option to choose where you store your taken photos and there is a reset file number option
• Display - This either displays your chosen settings and help text or either hide this information
• Zoom in
• Zoom out
• Movie size - This is where you choose how big your video is you can choose from 320 X 240 (15fps), 320 X 240 (30 fps), 480 X 272 (15fps) and 480 X 272 (30fps)
• Image quality - you can choose from fine quality or standard quality
• White balance - This is where you choose what type of enviroment you take your photo in, if you wanted to take a photo in daylight you will choose the daylight option, If you are in dark places you can either have Fluorescent or Incandescent or if your not sure what to choose put it in automatic and the camera should do all the work

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Hi all

Now if you use the UMD software for the camera you can only take 15 seconds of video but, in the new 3.00 firmware, they have added built in camera software that lets you record any amount of video provided that you have the space on your memory stick. I tried this it works, i recored more than 5 minutes!
I have also had a look at the other features, there are 5 different modes of camera to do including sketch, toy camera, text, distort and normal, there are 4 different sizes of pictures you can take from full sized ones to small ones. you can choose the image quality, you can choose the white balance, change the exposure, you can change other settings and you can look at the photos and videos you have taken while still on the camera, this also works for the video!

so the camera software built into the psp is better in someways than the UMD software!

What do you think? ...

Hi all

Now if you use the UMD software for the camera you can only take 15 seconds of video but, in the new 3.00 firmware, they have added built in camera software that lets you record any amount of video provided that you have the space on your memory stick. I tried this it works, i recored more than 5 minutes!
I have also had a look at the other features, there are 5 different modes of camera to do including sketch, toy camera, text, distort and normal, there are 4 different sizes of pictures you can take from full sized ones to small ones. you can choose the image quality, you can choose the white balance, change the exposure, you can change other settings and you can look at the photos and videos you have taken while still on the camera, this also works for the video!

so the camera software built into the psp is better in someways than the UMD software!

What do you think? ...

I have found some more deatils on the chotto shot camera addon for the psp,

• The UMD and camera requires 2.80 to run
• The UMD comes with 2.82
• Images taken are sent to psp/photo/CHOTTO_SHOT/
• Videos taken are sent to psp/video/CHOTTO_SHOT/
• There are two settings for taking photos indoor and outdoor mode
• Videos taken are in BHC format but you can convert them to AVI
• You can only take 15 seconds of video but with good audio and sound quality
• the photo editing UMD can add allsorts of effects to photos prision bars, smiley, happy, flames, stars etc and also titles like happy birthday etc
• You can also have the camera in panoramic veiw
• The UMD disc is required to take videos and photos

The quality of the videos and photos is pretyy good but to get good quality you need to have the picture size on 480X272 not the other setting

Heres what is included in the package

• Chotto camera
• Camera case
• Editing UMD software (Half japanise, half english but undertsandable)
• Software manual (all japanise)
• First step guide (all japanise)
• Camera attachment instructions (section for english)

and here is the chotto shot japan advert

http://www.youtube.com/v/xY0dBX79SWY

hope you found this interesting ...

Hi all

I thought you would be interested to know that i have found the links to the game demos that not many people could find exit 2, block club and loco roco the one with the new demo.

here are all the links

exit 2 - http://www.sendspace.com/file/mmuvwr
Block club - http://sendspace.com/file/0vruwa
Loco roco with new demo - http://sendspace.com/file/hq2hzn

enjoy! ...

Hi all

I have found a way to get a custom font onto a 2.81 psp.

First of all is you have to have a 2.70 - 2.80 psp

You must first install the tiff font hack run it and istall your custom font. See my guide - http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=36130

The once you have done that update your psp to 2.81 and once updated your custom font should remain the same as it was on 2.70 - 2.80

and there you have it

this should work even as you update to 3.00 when it comes out.

But once you have updated to 2.81 DO NOT PULL YOUR MEMORY CARD OUT WHILE THE PSP IS SWITCHED ON OR YOU WILL LOOSE YOUR CUSTOM FONT!!!!!!!

enjoy! ...

hi all

I have just found out that the new ridge racer 2 demo is out now, it was released today and works on firmwares 2.81 and above when they come out!

I have downloaded this demo and have to say that it is one of the best demos out so far!

More Info about Ridge Racer 2



The sequel to the PSP's first entry in Namco's phenomenal racing series, Ridge Racers 2 adds a number of new modes to the original. In addition to the World Tours, Time Attack and Wireless Battle (still with 8 player ad-hoc support) from the original, you can now take part in Arcade, Duel and Survival modes. The sequel is also packed with cars and tracks, including the highest number of courses yet seen in a Ridge Racer game -- 18 courses from previous games spanning from Ridge Racer to R4: Ridge Racer Type 4. The game promises six machine classes, each with three cars to begin with, as well as a number of secret cars and special classes.



Buy Here

Download the Demo and Give Feedback Via Comments ...

Hi all

I was given a link to a post on the us site about the 3.00 update, it claims that the info on the new firmware will be announced at a gamers show in san fransisco on 19th october heres what they had to say

-Sony will be reveling the information as well as dating the release about the next major update at "Gamer's Day" in San Francisco on October 19th. You guys will just love the new "Remote Play" feature, located under the "Network" icon, which allows you to access the PLAYSTATION® 3 from the PSP™ (PlayStation® Portable).

link - http://boardsus.playstation.com/play...ead.id=2582564

Awesome eh ...