Category: Camcorders
Hitachi's 6GB mîcrodrive goes on sale
Hitachi's 6GB tiny Compact Flash-sized mîcrodrive is now on sale. The hard disk drive can carry 1500-3000 songs, 6,000 pics or 8 hours of MPEG-4 video. $299 is far below what it was originally expected to retail for, making it…
JVC's top-end hard disk camcorder
After receiving plenty of plaudits for its first model, JVC is back with the second generation of its innovative Everio hard disk based camcorder. Scheduled to arrive in Europe in the summer retailing for around £800 the GZ-MC500 is…
Hard Drive Camcorder from NHJ
Following the path previously trod by JVC with its Everio, comes NHJ and its painfully monikered D'Zign DV-5. This hard disk drive digital camcorder comes with a 2GB hard drive for storing digital video, allowing you to record MP4s at…
30X optical Zoom Camcorder
At 30X Panasonic must be current record holders for the world’s most powerful optical zoom on a consumer digital camcorder. The NV-GS35 has 800,000 pixels and comes with a host of different modes and settings, including "soft skin" mode that…
Sanyo's new flash cam
We had a quick wander round the Sanyo stand and after wading past lots of probably US-only TVs and mobile phones we found the VPC-C4, the latest in Sanyo's flash memory based camcorders. The new model looks pretty similar…
Two new ranges of digicams for Canon
The MVX300 series and the MV800 series are the two new ranges of digital camcorders from Canon. The 1.33-megapixel MVX300 series is designed to be super-compact, while the MV800 range is more of an entry level spec, with just 800,000…
Cute cams
Yet another flash-based mini camcorder, the DXG 305V only landed on our radar because a, it is quite cute and b, is available in four colours including a rather fetching blue and a, so hideous it is not true, lime…
Vivitar's budget cams
You may remember a month or so ago Vivitar debuted the DVR-390H, a digital camera with a 20 Gigabyte hard disk that also played back MP3 and MPEG4 video files. At CES the company has been ramping up its…
Digital camcorder meets portable media player
Other than the specs, we haven't got a lot of information on this digital camcorder/PMP device. It can record 30 frames of video a second and has a 5-megapixel camera. While there's no mention of internal memory, an SD card…
Oregon's Flash-based Camera
Oregon Scientific's DV100 is the latest flash memory-based video/still camera to be launched in the UK. The 4-megapixel camera costs £200 and has 16MB of internal memory as well as an SD/MMC slot. It can record video footage as…