In today’s Remainders: excitement! Sorta. A shot of the iPhone 4 that doesn’t really tell us anything about the iPhone 4; a Star Wars and Sea Chicken adventure; a $500 HD camcorder that doesn’t quite rev our engines; and more. Home Movies JVC’s Enverio family grew by one member today with the announcement of the GZ-HM340, another just-barely-sub-$500 HD camcorder.
January 8, 2010 - 9:32 pm
Tags: camcorders, ces2010, flash, hard-pressed, instant-upload, iphone, left-image500, over-the-semi, seeing-the-ever, seen-at-ces, the-semi-pro, these-things, worried
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The Camcorder has been hard pressed by flash cams and DSLRs for awhile, but now we’re seeing the ever-improving HD cheapies and DSLRs taking over the semi-pro space with external microphones, lights and grips.
January 7, 2010 - 4:53 am
Tags: 30x-optical, 35mm-wide-angle, bigger, camcorders, cs1, face-tracking, left-image158, left-image500, says-the-bigger, sh1, xacti
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Take your pick as to what’s better about these new Sanyo Xacti cams: On the one hand, they’re thinner and lighter than ever. On the other hand, they got rid of that pain-in-the-ass AVCHD video format. Slashgear says the bigger Xacti, the VPC- SH1 has 1080p recording, a 35mm wide-angle lens, 30x optical zoom and takes 4 megapixel photos.
January 7, 2010 - 4:31 am
Tags: admittedly, camcorders, ces2010, kodak, kodakplaysport, left-image500, playsport, probably-more, still-working, though-useful
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From my admittedly quick hands-on, I’ve pretty much decided that the Kodak Playsport is the most practical pocket camcorder to date.
January 6, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Tags: ability, camcorders, creativity, image, optics, s10, s15, samsung, smart, source, ssd, unique-features, user, victoria
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Samsung’s S-Series camcorders might just be the dandiest of the week: Besides built-in Wi-Fi with DLNA connectivity and touchscreens, Samsung’s promising digital zoom that doesn’t suck and a new video processor with crazy low-light performance. The S16’s got 64GB of internal storage plus SD card; the S15’s got 32GB plus SD; and the S10 is straight up SD. Also, the S10’s lacking Wi-Fi.
January 6, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Tags: america, battery life, camcorders, ces 2010, digital-camera, electronics, president, samsung, smart, smx, smx-f40, social-networking, user, video, videos
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The one thing Samsung’s F-Series have going for them? Zoom
January 6, 2010 - 3:00 pm
Tags: actually-had, flexible, guardian, hammock, kindle, make-it-float, only-protect, really-want, shower, the-flexible, waterproof-case, waterproof-down
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The Guardian polycarbonate waterproof case is all I need to get my Kindle on vacation to Goa. It won’t only protect your kindle against spillage, but it will make it float on the tub or the sea. And on top of that, it’s waterproof down to one meter, just in case I want to take it from the hammock to a snorkeling swim.
December 29, 2009 - 2:10 pm
Tags: aforementioned, camcorder, camcorders, christmas, great-stocking, left-image158, posts-tagged, quality-at-640, resolution, windows, Windows 7
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It won’t win you any cinematography prizes, but at $70 it’d be easy to just throw in your bag or car for those moments when you really need to film something. Like when you see a hit and run.