Check Your Purse

Well, I guess there’s a camera out there for everyone. I look for a good quality HD camera without touch screen controls.  But not everyone is looking to  make movies, just record memories.

That’s where DXG’s high definition Luxe collection comes in.  The whole concept has the small camcorders covered in the slightly cheesy plastic designs of familiar purses.  At $129 they’re priced right for simple recording every so often.  It’s not the kind of camera I’d want, but I guess it can come in handy for some mom who just wants a clip of a kid’s school play.

Under the Sea

Personal camcorders continue to gain in quality and function, and that goes for their accessories as well.

Canon has recently released information on its WP-V1 underwater housing for it’s new HD Vixia H20 and HF200 camcorders.  It looks a lot prettier than underwater cases we’ve seen before, but it’s just as expensive.  At nearly $600 you should be prepared to film a lot of fish or swim lessons for that kind of cash.

The cash doesn’t make the idea any less appealing though.  Think of the possibilities in kids home movies or super on the cheap independent filming.  There’s only so much land on the planet, most of earth is water anyway.

Homemade Journalism

In the era of iReporting and Youtube videos cell phone cameras are as important to the news industry as any on scene reporter it seems.  Yet, jumping forward, as technology often does, the video camera in and of itself is attempting a come back in more ways than one.

I’m a video person myself, own a standard canon camcorder, but I applaud the camcorders attempt to skip into the hearts of others.  In the ever emerging world of “pocket camcorders” Kodak looks to be making a splash into the pool.  Pocket camcorders appeal in their size relation to cell phones, and their often superior picture quality.  Kodak announced today its Zi6 Pocket video camera, that claims both HD video and instant Youtube uploads.  It should hit the market in September.

Who doesn’t want better online video quality and on the scene photos?  Keep your cell phone in one packet (for calls) and your camcorder in the other.  Convenient, no?  Also convenient is Samsung’s new SC-MX20 which claims a specific mode of shooting for better Youtube quality (thus less conversion once the footage is downloaded).