Here is some Panasonic Lumix GH1 sample footage by Philip Bloom. The Panasonic Lumix GH1 offers on huge advantage over the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and the Nikon D90 — full manual controls in video mode. The GH1 should be available June 2009. I have to say that the GH1 video looks great! Click here to [...]
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Sanyo announced a couple new Full-HD camcorders that feature the world’s first consumer camcorder capable of recording full 1920×1080 progressive video at 60fps — the Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD2000 and the Sanyo Xacti DMX-FH11. The DMX-HD2000 should be available in February, and the DMX-FH11 will be available sometime before April. Pricing is not yet revealed. - Newly [...]
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Creative Labs now has their own pocket HD camcorder — the Vado HD. Like the Flip MinoHD, the Vado HD has built-in, non-upgradeable memory, however the built-in memory is 8GB (twice what the MinoHD has) which is enough for 2 hours of 720p video or 8 hours of SD video. The Vado HD is [...]
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Here are a couple video comparisons of the Kodak Zi6 and the Flip MinoHD. Both cameras have their strengths and their weaknesses, and actually I find the two videos below to be slightly contradictory. The one thing they are in agreement with however is that the Kodak Zi6 has slightly better audio capture than the [...]
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Pure Digital has introduced the Flip MinoHD with 3 times the resolution of previous Flip models. The Fip MinoHD records video in 720p (1280×720) at 30fps with an aspect ratio of 16:9. Other than the increased resolution, all other features of the Flip Mino HD seem to be the same as the Flip Mino (SD). Features: Weighing [...]
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Kodak seriously wants a piece of the pocket video camera market, and in an effort to grab some of that market, they introduced the Zi6 pocket video camera that is capable of shooting HD video.
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Canon will begin shipping their new XL H1A HD camcorder in July. This new camera is aimed squarely new entrants to HD video with a price tag of $6,000. With the XL H1A this remarkable capability is available at a lower price than ever before, offering users who have come to rely on their XL1, XL1s [...]
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