Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD800 camcorder for $468

Sanyo announced its new Xacti DMX-HD800, a sleek, slim HD digital movie camera. The Xacti HD800 features a 1/2.5 inch 8 Megapixel CMOS sensor, a 5x optical zoom lens, 12x digital zoom, Digital Image Stabilizer (electronic), ISO sensitivity up to 1600, and a 2.7-inch LCD screen.

Sanyo’s HD800 is able to record 1280×720 HD 720p videos at 30fps. The camera offers also Flicker mitigation, Wind noise reduction, Face Chaser technology, 3-dimension Noise Reduction (3DDNR) technology. It utilize the AVC/H.264 codec for video encoding.

The Xacti HD800 will launch in Japan in three colors (Gold, Pink, Black) on August 22nd.
Via this Sanyo press-release (Japanese).

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Sanyo Xacti DMX-CA8 Waterproof Camcorder

Sanyo today introduced their new Xacti DMX-CA8 camcorder that offers 8MP CMOS sensor, 5x optical Zoom, face Chaser mode that does facial recognition even when underwater, compatible with JIS IPX5 and IPX8 Japanese standard, waterproof up to 1 hour underwater at 1.5m depth, and can record video files in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 at 60fps in VGA.

(Via The Digital Camera Blog.)

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