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SANYO Announces New Slim Dual Camera Xacti VPC-CS1 Full HD Camcorder

SANYO is set to release its new Full HD, Slim Type Dual Camera Xacti VPC-CS1 in February, for $299. The Dual Camera Xacti line has come a long way since we were first introduced to the "pistol grip" style mini camcorders a few years back.

The new VPC-CS1 Xacti has a slimmer (1.06” in thickness), lightweight (about 5 oz) design, and it can capture Full HD videos in MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 video format with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, and high-resolution 8-megapixel still photos as well. The camera has a 10x zoom- 38-mm wide angle lens, and there's a Mini HDMI terminal for viewing your images on an HDTV.

The Xacti VPC-CS1 is also undergoing official certification to support iFrame, a next generation video format that has been designed to allow users to easily import, edit and share high quality video. iFrame is described as a computer-friendly format that can be used with both Mac and PC compatible applications using H.264, AAC, and MP4.

The Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1 has three microphone modes for recording sounds according to the scene and purpose, including:

* Wide Mode: Stereo recording with high channel separation.

* Gun Microphone Mode: Recording that focuses on sound emanating from the direction that the camera is pointing, while reducing sounds from other directions.

* Zoom Combination Mode: Automatically changes the directivity and sound gathering format according to the zoom positions.

* Produces high-resolution 8-megapixel*6 images.

* Wide capture range from an advanced 10x zoom to a 38-mm wide angle lens.

* “Digital Image Stabilizer” *7 and “Face Chaser Function” *8 for videos

* “The new Digital Image Stabilizer,”*7 “Face Chaser Function”*8 and “Target a Color Function” *8*9 for photos

* “Sequential Shot” ensures capturing the perfect images.

* ”Eye-Fi card compatibility”*10 enables automatic uploading of images to a computer.

* Mini HDMI terminal*11 for viewing high quality and clear images on TVs.

* Compatible with large-capacity recording media, SDXC memory card.

• 6 Approximately 3-megapixel images received from the image sensor are enhanced and recorded as 8-megapixel images
• 7 For instances where there is intense shaking or when the shutter is slow, motion correction function may not be able to correct the image.
• 8 Depending on the photographic subject and shooting conditions, there are instances where the function may not work as expected.
• 9 Developer by SANYO, with referring to the K-Means tracker technology of Wakayama University, Japan.
• 10 The Eye-Fi Share card and Eye-Fi Share Video card are sold separately

The maximum file size that can be uploaded from the Eye-Fi Share Video card is 2GB.

Sourse: SANYO