Anyone interested in film or video cameras ought to read the Wired article on Red Digital Cinema. I first heard about Red a year or so ago, and found it quite interesting that this company was trying to turn the film-making industry upside down by offering an incredibly inexpensive alternative to film cameras such as [...]

The always entertaining Andy Ihnatko gives a demo/review of the Flip Mino. Flip Mino Rolling Demo from Andy Ihnatko on Vimeo. Flip Video Mino Series Camcorder, 60 Minutes (Black) (Electronics)By Flip Video Buy new: $159.0019 used and new from $138.99 Customer Rating: [...]

The genre of “Point & Shoot” camcorders is becoming more and more popular these days with everyone interested in making their own videos and sharing them with the world. One company is dominating the point & shoot camcorder right now, and that is Pure Digital with their different varieties and colors of their Flip Video [...]

Speaking of Aiptek HD camcorders(#), Aiptek also makes a model called Aiptek Action HD. This model has two notable features over the Aiptek A-HD+: 3x optical zoom and autofocus. those two features alone are probably worth the extra $30. Other than that, the specs seem almost identical. 1080P High Definition Digital Camcorder: Capture stunning HD 1080P (1440 [...]

I wrote about the Aiptek A-HD a while back as an inexpensive 720p HD camcorder. Today I just realized that Aiptek has a newer model, the A-HD+, which will also record in 1080p @ 30fps and 720p @ 60fps. This economy, high-definition camcorder looks to be a great entry-level camcorder that just happens to be [...]

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 [...]

Sony is touting the HDR-TG1 as “the world’s smallest full HD camcorder”. Regarding the “small”, the HDR-TG1 weighs in at 10 ounces and sports a compact 1.3 x 4.7 x 2.5-inch titanium chassis. The HDR-TG1 records at 1920×1080 to its included 4GB PRO Duo Mark2 media card. Audio is recorded in Dollby Digital 5.1 surround [...]

I was killing some time at Target yesterday in the electronics department (of course, where else would I be?), when I came across the Aiptek A-HD high-def camcorder. This camcorder has a list price of $199 but can be easily found for $130. It records in 720p as H.264 encoded Quicktime movie files. At that [...]