Archive for December, 2008

YouTube-friendly Camcorders From Victor JVC

 New YouTube-friendly Camera from Victor JVC now available in Japan

With a size of 54×113x68mm and a weight of 305g, here you are the Everio GZ-MG840, the latest video camera from JVC with 60GB of HDD. Available now on the Japanese market, and for 70,000 Yens (580€), this new camera will also use microSD or microSDHC card in order to record video in MPEG-2.
Our YouTube-Friendly camera features 1/6’’ CCD Sensor with a 32x Optical zoom, as well as 2.7’’ LCD Screen.
Lastly you’ll be able to record up to 14 hours and 20 minutes video in Ultra fineness quality (720×480).

Victor also put another model on the market, the GZ-MG880 which comes with a built-in hard disk of 120GB allowing you to record up to 28hours and 40 minutes video. Regarding the price, it costs around 75,000 Yens.

Nikon’s 24.5 Nikon D3X DSLR is officially confirmed

 Nikon’s 24.5 Nikon D3X DSLR is officially confirmed

Nikon has officially put an end to all the rumors floating about by announcing the D3X full-frame DSLR. This is a rather special camera and definitely not one of your run of the mill ones. Hold your breath as I tell you that it is an impressive 24.5-megapixels affair; 6048 x 4032 is the resolution it’s capable of, so just imagine looking at the world through pictures from this camera. One thing that stands out about this baby is its ability of capturing five frames per second in FX and seven per second in DX. The cost of Nikon’s D3X DSLR is $8000.

Yashica EZ F1231 12.19 Mpix Camera

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Japan’s legendary camera maker Yashica comes with a higher resolutions camera from EZ F824, The EZ F1231 has 12.19 Mpix CCD, 3x optical zoom, 32Mb of internal memory and supports SD/SDHC cards. its 20mm thick camera can shoot pictures up to 4000×3008 as well as recording video in 720×400 at 30fps. Get this legendary brand’s camera for 200€.