Category: Camcorders
Gallery: Canon unveils new range of LEGRIA and DC camcorders
Canon has announced a new range of camcorders, including several able to shoot in full high definition, as well as a couple that record directly to DVD.
Take a look through our gallery for an overview of each model by clicking on the image below. Exact pricing and availability to be confirmed.
BATTERY DEVELOPMENTS: Korean scientist claims eight-fold leap in power-up time
It is a bit of a shame and quite an embarrassment for mankind that batteries haven’t come on in leaps or bounds since the 1970s, with modern Duracells only being marginally better than the Duracells used to power a Big-Trak for about 35 minutes on Christmas Day, 1981.
But that might possibly be about to change – thanks to a man called Prof. Cho Jae-phil who works at the Department of Applied Chemistry at Hanyang University, in South Korea…
Fujitsu announces Lifebook N7010 with a second tiny touchscreen
This is the new Fujitsu Lifebook N7010. Its most notable feature is the tiny 4″ touchscreen mounted just above the keyboard. You can use it like a second monitor – dragging programs and stuff down there, or you can use it as an app launcher, or control for DVDs and CDs.
Guess how big a Nokia N810 is?
Guesswork is YESTERDAY’S NEWS when it comes to accurate gadget sizing, thanks to oddball thing-size display site Pective.
Pective asks you for your screen size then lets you select from a vast array of gadgets to see how big they are. Yes, that is all it does. Good luck “monetising” this in the future, guys….
Sony shows off world's smallest full HD camcorder
It may look like something out of the garbage compactor in the Death Star but what you’re looking at is in fact the world’s smallest full HD camcorder…
Samsung's VM-MX25E – YouTube ready compact camcorder
Samsung has announced a YouTube-friendly compact camcorder for sale shortly over in the US. The Samsung VM-MX25E uses the H.264 format so you can compress your videos for Google’s video dump with pretty good quality even at low bit rates…
Shiny Video Preview: Second Generation Flip Camcorder
The original Flip camcorder was an awesome budget camcorder for amateur video recorders who don’t need tonnes of features – just something with a big red button that records. In the video above, Lucy checks out the second generation Flip, which has 2GB of internal memory, and records at 640×480 in AVI format…
IFA 2008: JVC Everio HD30 and HD40
Over in Berlin, Zara’s been hunting down camcorders – specifically the new Everios from JVC – the HD30 and HD40. They’ve got dual-format recording, so they record in both MPEG2 and AVCHD. This means you can get far more video into much less storage space. 50 hours onto the 120GB HD40. It’s got 10x optical zoom, and records at 1080p.
No price point, no release date, but we’ll let you know as soon as we hear anything…
Digital video camera / MP3 player hybrid has balls
Have you ever wanted a tiny digital video camera, that’s about the size of a ping-pong ball, with built in MP3 player? No, me neither, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped the DVR Camball getting through the focus groups.
It’s a brave device. Perhaps something a film maker might call “avante-garde”, and what the rest of us would call “weird”. And for some reason they decided to make it spherical too…
Hitachi announces DZ-BD10HA tri-format Blu-ray camcorder
Hitachi has announced its new DZ-BD10HA high definition camcorder, able to record directly to Blu-ray disc, internal 30GB hard drive, or SDHC.
It features a seven megapixel CMOS image sensor offering full 1080p high definition recording, a dubbing feature which allows footage to be transferred directly from the hard drive or memory card to the Blu-ray disc, face detection, and image stabilisation…
