October 27th, 2008 by
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Ready for the tease? RED just announced an announcement. According to RED Prez, Jim Jannard, “no one has any idea how incredible this announcement will be.” A stream of words, specs, and renderings, we presume, all cobbled together on November 13th with a promise to put the “RED ONE announcement to shame by comparison… the biggest, most exciting and incredible thing.” So mark your calendar for November 13th — that’s the day RED DIGITAL comes clean with its Scarlet and Epic programs. We’re sure Nikon and Canon will be watching to see if RED launches its DSMC (Digital Still & Motion Camera) aimed squarley at the DSLR market, or not. Even if we have to er, settle, for a 3K Scarlet or 5K Epic video cameras, those aren’t bad consolation prizes, eh?
[Thanks, Brad]
Red announcing DSMC DSLR replacement on November 13? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 29th, 2008 by
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We’re still waiting for geotagging to go mainstream on consumer-level still cams, but Geotate isn’t waiting around in its quest for location-aware domination — it’s teamed up with DXG to develop the first geotagging video camera we’ve seen. The camera itself isn’t anything special — it’s just another average DXG HD cam, based on the DVH586 — but the geotagging is powered by Geotate’s Yuma software, which does most of the heavy lifting on the server at import, so we’d expect it to be pretty robust. No word on pricing or availability, but we’re assuming it’ll fall in line with the rest of DXG’s lineup on the cheaper side.
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July 24th, 2008 by
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We’re not saying it can’t be done, but you should have some considerable trouble managing to run out of room for your expertly-shot, highly-narrative vacation antics with Hitachi’s new DZ-BD10H camcorder, which records 1080p HD video to Blu-ray discs or to its built-in 30GB hard drive. There’s even an SD slot, which we aren’t positive you can record video to, but it’s a fair guess. Other specs include a 2.7-inch LCD and a 10x optical zoom. Price should be around $1,500 when it hits Japan on August 9, but no solid word on a US berth just yet.
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June 6th, 2008 by
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The new ATC5K and ATC3K, Oregon Scientific’s action-packed followup to its ATC2K camera from 2006, bring a few common-sensical upgrades to the waterproof, shock resistant original. They still shoot VGA, but the 3K has new 48 degree field of view and a new CMOS sensor, while the 5K bumps it 53 degrees and a 1.5-inch LCD. The cameras run on AA batteries and can handle up to 4GB SD cards, but where these cheap-cams really “shine” is the multiple included mounting attachments for recording your various extreme sporting exploits. Or when you really just need to set yourself on fire and put it on YouTube — that works too. The ATC3K will be out in July for $150, with the ATC5K following in August for $200.
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June 5th, 2008 by
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While it certainly didn’t appeal to everybody, Pure Digital’s Flip Video Ultra cheapcorder nonetheless found quite the audience, which has not surprisingly led to some raised expectations for the company’s just-released follow-up, the Flip Mino. Judging from the first batch of reviews, however, it looks like Pure Digital has mostly managed to hit the mark ($30 premium notwithstanding), even if it still likely won’t be getting folks to ditch their more full-featured cameras. Among the first out of the gate with a review was Laptop Magazine, which put the Ultra and Mino head-to-head and found that Mino won out in terms of design, specs, and power options, although the Ultra hung on to an edge in video quality, which it says remained “consistently brighter,” particularly in low-light conditions. The Wall Street Journal’s Mossberg Solution (not Moss himself) didn’t have as much of a problem with the video quality (given the expectations), but it did find that while the Mino’s touch-sensitive buttons look great, “they aren’t as functional as they needed to be.” Wired’s Gadget Lab also had some quibbles about the hard to press buttons, but that wasn’t enough to stop it from handing out an initial rating of 8 out of 10 (a more in-depth review is promised for later), with the cam’s slimmer design and ability to get video up onto the web quickly winning it high marks. If that still hasn’t made up your mind, you can find some sample videos taken with the camera and plenty more details by hitting up the links below.
Read - Laptop Magazine (”the Mino won three out of the four rounds,” but not the biggest category: video quality)
Read - Mossberg Solution (”looks much cooler than older models”)
Read - Gadget Lab (8 out of 10)
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May 5th, 2008 by
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It looks like Creative’s getting set to muscle in on Pure Digital’s Flip Video — online retailer JR.com has specs up for something called the Vado VF0570-P, and they’re basically identical to the Flip Video Ultra, apart from a slightly larger 2-inch screen. Other than that, you’re getting the same 2 hours of VGA-res video on 2GB of built-in memory and YouTube support for the same $100 price. No pics or ship dates yet, but we’re guessing we’ll see something official pretty soon.
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December 20th, 2007 by
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It looks like the budget-minded folks at Exemode are back for one more go ’round, and they’re now bumping things up into HD territory with their new DV580HD camcorder. While we obviously can’t vouch for its overall quality, the camera will apparently let you record 720p video onto SDHC cards up to 8GB (or 32MB of internal memory in a pinch), or capture still images at up to 8 megapixels, although it seems you’ll have to make do without an optical zoom of any sort. On the upside, it does only cost €155 (or about $220), and it says “HD” in big shiny letters, so it can’t be all bad.
[Via Akihabara News]
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