Category: Camcorders
Sanyo Xacti VPC-CG10 – SHINY VIDEO REVIEW
Tech Digest’s Dan Sung puts the new Sanyo Xacti VPC-CG10 through its paces and comes out thoroughly impressed. Part of Sanyo’s Dual Range, the Xacti is designed to take great video and stills while not compromising on portability.
A choice of auto-focuses, face-following, 720p playback, a 12 megapixel sensor and a 1600 ISO, it’s certainly a well-specced little blighter, but no audio output? I mean come on. If you’re looking for a step up from your Flip HD or Kodak Zi6, this is certainly a good place to start.
Panasonic go pocket sized with SD10 & TM10 camcorders
Tiny little HD camcorders are two a penny this year and today is the turn of Panasonic’s two with there being around 50,000 pennies in this case.
The HDC-SD10 and HDC-TM10 are a pocket sized 227g, shoot at 1080p resolution and give you a very nice 16x optical zoom to play with. The only difference between the two is that the SD10 allows you to record to SD/SDHC cards only whereas the TM10 gives you an 8GB HDD on top of that.
No word on the stills ability of these palm-sized pieces with just a 1/6″ MOS sensor and a measly sounding 1.17-megapixel resolution but they do have scene modes plus an intelligent auto function (iA), so expect the same kind of usability you’d find in the Panasonic
JVC launches Everio X super slo-mo hybrid camcorder
In an industry where, suddenly, if you can’t record full HD and take stills with a CMOS sensor, you’re not in the game, JVC has still managed to pull out an impressive camcorder in the shape of the Everio X.
The X, or GZ-X900 as it’s also known, offers 9-megapixel pictures and 1080p HD at a weight of 298g but, most interesting of all, it features video capture at up to 500fps. That translates as 10x super slow motion speeds. It’ll be like watching the Tornado Camera in your own home movies.
It’s out in June complete with 5x zoom Minolta glassware, an HDMI 1.3 port and will record onto SDHC. Prices to follow.
JVC HD40 & HD30 Preview:
SHINY VIDEO REVIEW: Flip MinoHD – 720p recording and under 100g
Let’s make this simple. If you like the original Flip Mino, you’re going to ache for the MinoHD. Same kettle of bananas, only this time with 720/30p video recording instead of boring old VGA. Want to know what that looks like? Press play on the box below…
There’s only a couple of real issues with what is one of the best camcorders I’ve held in my hands. The first is that it’s mono sound recording. Not much you can do there if you want to keep the weight down. The second is the price.
Now, £169.99 isn’t that expensive but it is a) around double what you’d pay for the VGA Mino and b) a little bit more than other Full HD camcorders to be hitting the shelves very soon.
Doubtless the Flip MinoHD will still do well. The battery lasts a lifetime, the 4GB/60mins recording memory is ace and I’ll be very sad when it’s time to send mine back.
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Flip MinoHD heading to UK shelves on 7th April
Almost one year on and Flip Video is back at us with a revamped version of everyone’s favourite pocket-sized camcorder. Ladies, gentlemen, I give you the Flip MinoHD. Can anyone guess how they’ve upgraded it?
Yes, it’s all in the name. We’re now looking at the world’s smallest HD video camera – 720p of course – and they’ve accordingly upped the onboard memory to 4GB so that you can still capture that magic 60 minutes of footage.
It’ll cost you £169.99 when it comes out on 7th April, which seems slightly on the expensive side after the likes of the Toshiba Camileo P10 was announced, but then it does come with easy to use Flip software and a whopping big fan base. Bound to be a hit once more.
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Flip Mino review:
Sony Handycam TG7VE – world's smallest HD camcorder with GPS
Pocket-sized, full HD camcorders are all the rage this year. Sanyo unleashed a world of Xactis, Toshiba came out with the £99 Camileo P10 and today it’s the turn of the Sony Handycam TG7VE.
The claim to fame for this 230g pistol grip shooter is that it’s the smallest full HD camcorder that comes with GPS. Yes, you can shoot your 2.3-megapixel video onto 16GB of internal memory for around six hours and then watch it all back on the 2.7″ LCD complete with map and pinpoint graphics showing exactly where it is you saw that you saw you mate accidentally fall into that vomit spattered shopping trolley.
In true Sony style, the TG7VE takes light through a Carl Zeiss lens onto a 1/5″ Exmor CMOS sensor and puts the lot together with a Bionz processor. It shoots stills at 4-megapixels, gives you up to 10x optical zoom and features all sorts of face-tracking and smile shot functionality which will even work in video capture mode.
No word on the price just yet but it’ll be out in May along with a 32GB additional memory card plus a wide-angle cap too. Sounds like a good ‘un so long as they can keep the price and battery consumption low.
Sanyo Xacti HD200 review
1080p Toshiba Camileo P10 camcorder for just £99
This is an 1080p camcorder. It’s called the Toshiba Camileo P10 and it costs under £100. You can now close your mouth.
Along with the S10, the other camcorder announced by Toshiba today, it has a 4x zoom…
Bargain of the Week: Sony Handycam HDR-SR12E
Today’s bargain is for those of you who want to spend some serious cash on a camcorder. Bearing in mind that Sony equipment is pretty pricey at the best of times, and you can get other camcorders for less, I present to you the Sony Handycam HDR-SR12E.
With an RRP of £1,049, Amazon.co.uk is currently selling this beast for £749.99 — that’s a nearly £300 (29%) saving.
What do you get for your money, apart from the Sony name itself?…
SHINY REVIEW: Sanyo Xacti HD2000 – 1080p and a 8.1-megapixel CMOS sensor
A very impressive piece of kit is the Sanyo Xacti HD200 camcorder complete with its 1080p video recording 8.1-megapixel CMOS sensor. A little pricey at…
JVC's 2009 Everio camcorder range
JVC’s just sent us a bunch of details about their 2009 lineup of camcorders, and because we’re nice, I fancied sharing them with you. There’s the HD range, the G-series and the S-series. The HD range, as you might imagine from the name, are high-definition, the S-series model has dual SD card slots, and the G series is a mixed bag.
Let’s start with the S-series, because the word “start” begins with S. There’s only one new model here, the GZ-MS120. As previously mentioned, it’s got dual SD card slots and you can record continuously, so that if you run out of space on one it’ll automatically swap to the other. In highest quality mode, you’ll get 3.7 hours of recording from a pair of 8GB SD cards. In lowest quality, you’ll get about 20 hours.
