Sanyo’s Xacti CG9 Camera/Camcorder thingy is an update to their more affordable line. It captures stills at 9.1MP, and unlike the higher end Xactis focused on HD video, this one is not much so. (They don’t even specify res but the preceding CG6 is rated at “DVD quality.”)
The Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD700 —the younger sister of the DMX-HD1000 we tried at IFA2007 — has been announced in the US and will be available at the end of October. At 189 grams and 171 cubic centimeters, Sanyo claims it’s the smallest 720p camcorder in the world, taking AVC/H.264 video and 7.1-megapixel stills with Face Chaser technology which can track 12 faces simultaneously. Its specs are quite impressive for its $600 price tag:
Today we got our hands on Sanyo’s Xacti HD. The world’s first 1080p camcorder is more than cute—seemed like just the right weight to me, and its two-button design is simple to use. It felt cool and fast, but the experience was not perfect.
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Here’s a video of Ad’s painted hands on the new Sanyo Xacti. My unpainted hands found the ergonomics to be excellent, though the buttons felt a little cheap.
Pogue takes a a few waterproof cams down to the local waterpark for testing and finds Sanyo’s 6MP Xacti E1 to be of better image and video quality than the rest. I’ve always found the Xacti cam’s nice, but the low light performance to be lacking. That doesn’t matter when you’re talking about beach and pool time, however. I believe its image quality is better than the other cams in this roundup, but it’s only rated to 5 feet of depth.
Here’s the Sanyo Xacti E1, the world’s first waterproof camcorder. You’re not going to be taking this $US500 camcorder scuba diving, because it can only be taken down to a depth of about 1.5m for an hour at a time, but still, you’re not going to need a bulky underwater housing to take this 11cm-tall, 235-gram package in the pool.
It shoots standard definition H.264 MPEG-4 video onto an SD or SDHC memory card, and compresses it so efficiently that can fit 10 hours a 640×480 video at 30 frames per second on an 8GB card. It can also take 6-megapixel JPEG stills, and can even capture those pics at the same time you’re shooting video. But does it float?
Take the jump to see what this baby looks like wet, and a list of specs, too.
