It’s lacklustre image quality sees to that. The extra features are nice to have, but we’d rather have the Mino HD’s better quality recordings.Īlso on the negative side, there’s no on-board software of the type that makes the Vado and Flip cameras such a joy to use, and Arcsoft’s MediaImpression supplied on the CD isn’t the most elegant of editing/viewing tools.Īll in all then, despite the impressive list of capabilities, features and low price, Toshiba’s handy Camileo doesn’t make the grade. The image stabilisation works well and the zoom is smooth and easy to operate, but colours are over-saturated, the autofocus extremely slow and the lens doesn’t produce the sharpest results either. It’s an impressive list of features, but the results can’t quite back them up. The P30 comes with a protective pouch, a wrist strap and all the cables you need for connection with a PC or directly to your TV ?” that includes an HDMI cable on top of the usual composite, and USB connectors. It has a 5 Megapixel CMOS sensor, 4x digittal zoom and a 3-inch display.
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The P30 not only has a 5x optical zoom, but also a macro mode, digital image stabilisation (limited to 720p mode and below), an LED light/flash for dim conditions and five megapixel still image capture. More importantly, it’s equipped with the sort of features we’d expect to find in more expensive, semi-serious camcorders. First, it claims to record in 1080p and, though in practise it falls short of this at an unusual 1,440 x 1,080, it’s still the highest resolution we’ve seen in a pocket video camera to date.
Plus, rather than relying on built-in flash memory (it has only 96MB), there’s an SDHC card slot. This makes it a little less pocketable but at just 166g and 104mm tall it’s still far from bulky. It’s simple to operate, and very reasonably priced at £130 too, but that’s where the similarities end.įor starters, its pistol grip design sets it apart from the mobile phone-style camera crowd. This is a low-cost, flash memory-based video camera like the Creative Vado HD and the Flip Mino HD.
The latest to join the gold rush is Toshiba’s Camileo P30.