Sony’s Tiny HD Camcorder April 26, 2007

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Sony is claiming the honours of the smallest HD camcorder today with the introduction of the back-in-black cool, Handycam HDR-CX6EK.

It is quite small and Sony is saving weight – but making money off you – by making the storage medium its own Memory Stick technology, which tops out at 8GB. This is enough for an hour of 1080i video at top quality or almost three hours at the lowest quality setting. It takes photos at up to 6.1megapixels. There’s a Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T lens which is good for 10x optical zoom and the whole thing weighs in at 370g, excluding battery. Frankly, that last bit is marketing nonsense to make the weight look good. After all, we don’t know what the battery weighs and, more importantly, who’s going to use it without the damn battery?

Hell, the Sanyo Xacti HD2 weighs just 235g, with battery.

There are lots of funky features thrown in, not least of which something called Face Index, a face detection technology for highlighting your little Johnny when playing back the school play.

Due in July but no UK prices yet. The US price though is around £600.-Martin Lynch

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