Product Features:

* Stainless Steel Camcorder fits in the palm of your hand, shoots DVD quality video and takes 5.4 MP photos.
* Outer case is constructed from solid stainless steel
* High Resolution (600 x 425) 2.5 Inch LTPS LCD display
* DVD quality video with resolution up to 720×480 at 30fps. MPEG4 Video Format.
* Videos and photos are stored on removable SD cards (not included)
* Camera has 64MB built in storage and supports up to 4GB SD cards
* Built in flash and 8X digital zoom
* Optional digital image stabilization
* Included rechargeable LI battery lasts for hours of video recording and recharges via USB
* Plug in camera via USB and easily download photos and videos to your computer (PC, Mac, Linux)
* Included Windows software allows you to convert your videos for playback on iPod PSP or Cell Phone
* Connect to any standard TV for video and photo playback with included RCA cables

Included in Package:

* Camcorder
* LI Battery
* Manual
* 100-240V 50-60Hz AC Power Adapter
* Docking Base
* USB Cable
* Soft Case
* Lanyard Strap
* Video/Audio out cable
* Earbuds
* Blaze Video Magic Software (Requires Windows XP/2000/ME/Vista)

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Hewlett-Packard said it is getting out of the digital camera manufacturing game to focus on its Print 2.0 strategy.

After market close Wednesday, HP said it is working to find a manufacturing partner that would design, source and distribute cameras under the HP brand.

With the move, which will result in a charge of $30 million in HP’s fourth quarter, the company can focus on photo printing and online photo services. In May HP outlined its Print 2.0 strategy, which is designed to make it easier to print from Web sites, extend digital publishing and deliver a digital printing platform for commercial markets.

The Eye-Fi is an SD Card with Wi-Fi capability allows you to transfer photos wirelessly from a digital camera to your computer and to one of several online sharing sites.

Wireless uploading is a capability that has been slow to catch on with digital cameras, perhaps because the models that have offered it haven’t been otherwise compelling, or because getting a wireless connection to work is often a hassle. But the Eye-Fi Card addresses both of those issues.

The Wi-Fi-enabled Eye-Fi SD card works with almost any camera that uses that memory-card format, makes the wireless setup very simple, and imposes fewer limitations than some of the cameras with built-in Wi-Fi that we’ve seen in the past. Read more…

If your little one loves to take pictures, but the idea of those chubby fingers gripping and quite possibly dropping your digital camera makes your heart skip a beat, help has arrived in the form of a tough and fully functional kid camera designed to take great pictures as well as a tumble.

Nickelodeon has teamed up with Imation to create the Npower line of consumer electronics. Drawing on popular Nic characters like Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants, the pint-size portable electronics includes products like the VGA 300K Pixel Digital Camera ($59.99) that comes in purple, my favorite color as well as Dora’s.
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Technology is getting cheaper and cheaper, but I didn’t think that it got this cheap.

If you’re willing to take a chance on DXG of Taiwan, they’ll sell you a 10-megapixel digital camera for a mere $170. That’s worlds cheaper than any other 10MP digicam on the market, so you’ve got to wonder if there’s a catch.

Looking up and down the spec sheet, you find numbers that are very much in line with the competition. The lens can optically zoom in and out at 3x and the digital zoom adds to the intimacy at 4x. There’s also face detection technology, focus illuminator, ISO 100-1600, TV-out, autofocus tracking, and 32MB of internal memory to accompany the SD/MMC expansion slot. So far, so good.

So, where’s the catch? As far as I can tell, there isn’t one. That said, until I actually take some pictures with the DXG digital camera, I can’t really speak to the image quality that results.

It seems that the Sports Camcorder has met its demise. Recently, Samsung quietly shut down its Sports Camcorder forums, an online community that catered to a broad audience of mountain bikers, skateboarders, and beyond who owned some version of the camcorder. Futhermore, the board’s moderator stated that Samung will no longer manufacture Sports Camcorders for the US market.
“There [have] been several technical imperfections with the units - some fixed - some not… Samsung, at this point, will not be releasing new Sportscams; at least not in the U.S., however I have not found anything to indicate any future global releases,” stated sportcam_guru, Webmaster of Samsung Sports Camcorder Forums.
CamcorderInfo.com reviewed two units in the past, the SC-X105L (Review, Specs, $349) and the SC-X210L (Review, Specs, $449). The reviews found a severe underperformance in video quality when placed in the the greater context of camcorders in its price range, but concluded that the Sports Camcorders filled a niche that most camcorders could not. Samsung’s implementation of weather-resistant bodies and external lenses catered to rapids, mountain, and skatepark junkies across the globe. Most models feature an external lens that can be mounted to a helmet, attaching to an ultra-compact body for storage. The diminutive camcorder records MPEG-4 AVI video directly to internal flash memory or a removable flash memory card.

The HDR-UX7 ($1,000 MSRP) is Sony’s crème de la crème DVD camcorder, a 1920 x 1080i high definition powerhouse outfitted with an impressive imager and perhaps the best handling of any Sony this year. The body is hefty, despite the serious slim-down from its predecessor, the HDR-UX1. The weight might be worth it. The top model gets all the fixings: a mic jack, headphone jack, big 3.5-inch LCD, and an interesting little knob on the front for tweaking adjustments. Does this feature-laden camcorder merit the $1,000 price tag? Let’s find out.

The HDR-UX7’s lens has a focal length of 5.4 – 54mm with the following 35mm equivalents:

- 40 – 400mm (16:9 movie)
- 49 – 490mm (4:3 movie)
- 40 – 400mm (16:9 still images)
- 37 – 370mm (4:3 still image)

There is no external lens cap or manual lens cover switch—the HDR-UX7 dons an automatic lens cap like most higher-end camcorders in its price range. Directly beneath the lens is the remote sensor and infrared NightShot light.

The last item in front is mounted along the bottom right side. Behold Sony’s multifaceted Cam Control dial. Alternately described as a knob or a barrel, the dial features a button embedded within its center that cues a quick menu containing independent focus, exposure, AE Shift (auto exposure), and WB Shift (white balance). Though the Cam Control dial is a step down from the HDR-UX1’s ring around the lens, it provides superior control over the Canon HV20 (Review, Specs, Recent News, $903)’s tiny Cam Control dials, or any of the other controls on Sonys this year. We’ll expound on this key external control throughout the review.

It records to mini-DV tapes and boasts a very impressive set of technical specifications: a Carl Zeiss lens with 40x optical zoom and 2000x digital zoom, a zero lux reading in night mode (which means you can still film, even in total darkness), a 2.5in LCD screen, built-in stereo microphone, auto and manual focus, and image-stabilisation technology. Read more…

The JVC GZ-MG155 is second from the bottom in Everio’s hard disk drive camcorder line. While this year’s Everios have been reliable, the GZ-MG155 has a hard time proving its worth. Outclassed by the step-up GZ-MG255 and outperformed in low light by the step-down GZ-MG130, this camcorder shows what happens when a company spends more time pursuing the “megapixel count game” and less time looking at the effects of those actions. Read more…

Consumers are racing to replace their aging televisions with high-definition TVs. Trouble is, many are still using devices and services that can’t fill those HDTVs with enough visual information to make them look their best.

Sony hopes to smooth the transition with the introduction of the HDR-CX7 Handycam ($1,199), a tightly designed video camera that can record images at high definition.

Even if you think it’s overkill for the kid’s soccer game or the family picnic, you’ll appreciate the crisp resolution as opposed to spreading standard-definition images over your big HD screen.
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