Sanyo intro’s the waterproof Xacti DMX-CA8 camcorder
Sanyo has upgraded their Xacti CA-65 waterproof camcorder with the new Xacti DMX-CA8. The DMX-CA8 retains much of the same features as its predecessor except for the addition of an 8-megapixel CMOS sensor and a “Face Chaser” function.
The DMX-CA8 is JIS IPX5 and IPX8 certified, which means that it can withstand one hour of being submerged into water up to 1.5 meters (just under 5-foot) deep. The DMX-CA8 can record video at 60fps with MPEG-4 AVCH/H.264 compression. Like its predecessor, the DMX-CA8 also sports a 5x optical zoom lens. To make the camcorder special, Sanyo threw in a “Face Chaser” function which can track six faces when filming a video or twelve faces when the camcorder is used for still images.
Otherwise, the DMX-CA8 also offers a digital image stabilizer, wind noise reduction, talking navigation, support for SDHC cards up to 32GB and a 2.5-inch color LCD display. The DMX-CA8 will be released in the Japanese market sometime in May 2008.
Via [Akihabara News]
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I bought the Xacti DMX-CA8 in Japan. I didn’t think twice about the fact that all menus are set in japanese as I expected it to be a straight forward thing to do to change the language through the settings as I did with the Minolta I had bought back in 2002. But no! I’m stuck with the Japanese menus and to date the Japanes manual as well!! I can’t find a User Manual in english on the internet! needless to say I am not impressed! Also came with it a software called Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 which you can only use if your PC’s operating system has CPU that supports the SSE2 instruction set. Mine doesn’t so again I’m stuffed! I regret ever looking at this thing right now.
on June 30, 2008 at 03:50 PM - LINK