Toshiba Camileo Pro HD looks the goods
Whilst Toshiba's HD-DVD prospects are in the toilet, they plough ahead in other areas, in this case with the introduction of the very pocketable Camileo Pro HD. Sporting 720p via a 5 megapixel CMOS sensor and shooting in MPEG4/H.264 format, the camera only has 128MB of on-board memory but has capacity for up to 32GB SDHC cards. On the down side it only has 3x optical and 4x digital zoom - possibly hard to swallow if you're a fan of the TX1's 10x capability.
The camera also has HDMI output for direct connection to HD TVs and has its own 2.5" LCD screen that can be flipped out and rotated up to 270 degrees. It can be used as a webcam, something missing from the TX1's repertoire.
On the up side, it's going to retail for around £150 (US$295, AU$325) and will be available in the UK in April. No word on launch in other markets yet.
6 comments:
Hey Matt,
Not bad looking, but I'd have to see it in person. Not sure I could give up the great 10x lens on my TX-1, I'm still loving mine after lots of hours of hd shooting and thousand of pics. Something similar in size, with a equal lens and better recording length would get my attention though. I'm still blowing people away with the quality of footage the tx1 can take!
I just saw the Can TX1 at MicroCenter for $359 dollars so why would anyone buy this camera for $295 when $65 more get you a much better camera with more optical zoom.
I purchased the TX-1 a few months ago on eBAY for $375,came with 8gb memory card+spare non-oem battery - LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT... I would def. choose it over this new Toshiba. The huge MJPEG files are not a problem, I bought a 16GB card, but just immediatly xfer the pics to my computer so it's always clean and ready. Also I usually take video instead of still pictures because I can just take still frames so easliy. - Couldn't live without 10X optical zoom. I remember having a 10X optical on my Sony Maveca that took 3.5 floppy disks and was always amazed that the new cameras didn't have as much zoom.
I looked at the TX1 for a very long time, so many negative reviews for the TX-1 around the internet, but the ones who love it (like me) always seemed to shine through with their honest opinions... and escpecially after I saw this website-I had to have one. -- Thanks again for this website, and the update on the "next" camera i could have waited for... but already know I don't want it! sweet! that rarely happens.
The two questions on every TX-1 owners' minds:
1. Does it have manual focus capability?
2. Does it have a jack for an external microphone?
Actually, the comments on amazon.uk so far are pretty negative -- poor sound quality, no autofocus(?), etc...
http://tinyurl.com/38kyc3
Its based on the Aiptek GO-HD,
it is NOT the Amazon camera linked to by sashimikid. Thats a non HD model.
The Aiptek has terrible sound quality, no external mic, no optical image stabilisation. It has excellent compression hardware. There is also a 1080-30, 720-60p version available soon.
I'm coming round to the TX-1 as being better value that the Aiptek - its not much cheaper yet the Canon is a better camera.
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