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Roxssun Digital’S Video Camera Watch Spy Mini Recorder

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It’s more than a watch. It’s not only a watch. It is a perfect combination of wrist watch and spy audio / video camera. The main parameters are as follows:

Photography recording function (300K pixels Camera) Very cool wrist watch appearance. Applicable for both colorful video recording and sound recording. Camcorder pixels: 352×288; Format: AVI Memory: 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB (optional for choice) Built-in Rechargable Lithiumion Battery, continuous photographing for about 2 hours High quality Japan quartz movement No driver installation is needed if the operating system is Windows ME/ 2000/ XP/ Mac OS 9.2.2 or above. It is a real professional pen DVR ( Digital Video Recorder) for the professional investigators or Law enforcement agencies or personal spy purposes.

Charging time: Charging 5-6 hours for first time, normally charging 1.5-2 hours

Battery Working Duration after charging: 2 hours or more;

File Transfer Speed: USB2.0

Bit Rate 32kbps-256kbps

Working temperature: -20 to +70 Degree

Signal-to-Noise ratio: 20Hz to 20KHz

Support compression rate: 32Kbps to 256Kbps

 

Roxssun Digital Tech. Co., Ltd. (www.roxssun.com) is a Chinese manufacturer and supplier specializing in the production, supply, export and trading of portable digital products and wireless communication products for both domestic and international market. Product category covers MP3 Player, MP4 Player, MP5 Player, MP3 Watch, MP4 Watch, Video Camera Watch, Mobile Phone, Mobile Phone Watch, DVD Player, Portable DVD Player and Car DVD Player, USB Flash Disk and USB Flash Pen, Web PC Camera, Mini Speaker, Car GPS Navigator, Digital Audio/Video Recorder and other stylish products involved with digital creation.

As a manufacturer, supplier and exporter of portable digital products from China, Roxssun Digital is looking forward to cooperating with any buyer, importer, distributor, wholesaler, trader, sales agent, business partner in the international market .

Panasonic HDC-SD5 AVCHD 3CCD Flash Memory High Definition Camcorder with 10x Optical Image Stabilization w/DVD Burner

Thursday, January 7th, 2010 at 7:21 am  
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Panasonic HDC-SD5 AVCHD 3CCD Flash Memory High Definition Camcorder with 10x Optical Image Stabilization w/DVD Burner
 
Panasonic HDC SD5 AVCHD 3CCD Flash Memory High Definition Camcorder with 10x Optical Image Stabilization w/DVD Burner
Manufacturer: Panasonic
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  • Optical Zoom - 10x Variable Speed; Focal Length 3.0 - 30 mm, Film Camera Equivalent 42.9 - 429 mm (16 - 9)(Moving Picture/Still Picture) Leica Dicomar lens
  • Accepts 37mm Filters
  • Optical Image Stabilizer
  • Up to 700x Digital-zoom
  • 2 Channel Stereo Zoom mic Dolby Digital AC3 2Channel sound
Panasonic HDC SD5 AVCHD 3CCD Flash Memory High Definition Camcorder with 10x Optical Image Stabilization w/DVD Burner Just the right combination...
 
Review Date: September 17, 2007
Reviewer: Kent W. Wien, Newfields, NH United States
I was thrilled with how small this camera is. It fits in your hand as if it were a half full 12 oz. can of soda. It's very light, but the fortunately the image stabilization makes it shoot like it was a heavier camera.

I ran into an issue with iMovie '07 (part of Apple's iLife '08) that caused the screen to stretch wider, making people look fat. This will likely be resolved soon by Apple, and for now I've taken to using the 1440 X 1080 resolution which imports just fine.

I've also fitted a 37mm mount size aftermarket wide angle lens which really helps for shooting indoors. Some have complained that the video is a bit more grainy while indoors and in darker conditions than the HD1, but I can't complain.

So far, the battery life seems to run an hour and 10 minutes, which is better than the 55 minutes it's rated for.

This camera does not include an SD card, so you'll want to pick up a 4GB (40 minutes) or 8 GB (80 minutes) card. I got the class 6 version of those SDHC cards for a faster transfer. I think I might stick with the 4 GB size in the future so I can easily burn the files to a blank DVD which holds 4.7 GB. Also, make sure you have a card reader that supports SDHC. It also doesn't include an HDMI cable, so pick one of those up if you have a TV capable of HDMI. Belkin makes the least expensive cable at $20.

And finally, if you're a Mac user, you should know that only the Intel Macs (that have been out since January of '06) support the AVCHD editing.

Some have complained about the low light grain that this camera tends to have. I've noticed it as well, and apparently the HD1 is slightly better indoors. But this wasn't a huge issue for me.

The only thing that would make this camera perfect for me would be an external mic input.
Panasonic HDC SD5 AVCHD 3CCD Flash Memory High Definition Camcorder with 10x Optical Image Stabilization w/DVD Burner Best that's out there right now.
 
Review Date: November 27, 2007
Reviewer: A. Johnston, TX
This is the first camcorder I have bought in a while. My last one was a Canon MiniDV that did progressive frame shooting. I've been researching for months on and off and following the progress of HD camcorders.

I personally love this camera, there are only a few, mute things about this camera that I miss.

Pros:

- It's small and very light weight; almost too light. I *almost* found myself wishing it were a little heavier to make it easier to hold the camera steady. But it's great like it is.
- The picture quality is great. Having had a progressive scan camcorder before, I notice the interlacing, but it's no where near as bad as the MiniDV camcorder I had before that did interlacing. There is a slight grain to the picture in low light, but this is to be expected, and after reading several reviews about how "horrible" the low light was, I thought it was great. It wasn't near as bad for me as people were making it out to be, but that's a subjective thing. (I viewed this on both a 720 and 1080 screen)
- Audio is good, it doesn't make me too loud (since I'm holding the camera and the mic is right next to me) and I can clearly hear thing that are farther out.
- Battery life is great. I can easily get over an hour, and it seems to indicate it can do more than that, though I haven't put that to the test yet and the manual says I can only get a maximum of 1 hour and 25 minutes (55 minutes actual). So we'll see.
- I kind of like that the battery and SD card are tucked away underneath. I don't agree with a previous review that the door and hinge are made cheaply. It seems standard to me.
- I love the SD card recording media. No more tapes! No more mini-DVDs! No more having to hook up your hard drive based camcorder to the computer to copy files!

Cons:

- I imagine I'll miss that there's no external mic input. But I bought this anticipating to use it as a point-and-shoot camcorder. I'm just starting a family and wanted to capture everything, and this will do it. I don't plan on making any little movies with it. (I'll probably continue to use my progressive scan camera for that)
- The field of view is narrow. I don't know if this is just how camcorders are these days, or if I'm just used to my Kodak digital camera that has a wide-view mode. I ended up buying a 0.5x and 0.7x lens to put on it, and this helps be get "the big picture" so I can capture more of what's going on in a scene.
- I don't know where to get an extra battery. Do the SD1 batteries work with this? Where do I buy them? The manual gives me model numbers of 3 different batteries, but finding a place to buy them is though; and the ones I do find are $100+!
- It doesn't remember my last shooting preferences. Sometimes I turn on the back light or another feature. But if I turn the camera off for a moment and back on, I have to go turn that feature on again.


Recommendations:

- Buy bigger capacity memory cards. I bought 2 - 2GB, and I'm filling them up faster than I can copy them to my computer. I ordered a 16GB one which should help a lot. Another reviewer mentioned that it's good to get 4GB ones so you can easily copy them to a DVD, that sounds like a good idea.
- Get a wide angle lens. I really didn't like how narrow the view was, whether this is normal or not. (though with my 0.7x lens, I can only zoom in 2x before everything becomes out of focus and there's no fixing it. Just a warning!)
- Check out the back light compensation for low light shooting. It helps a lot!
- Check out the contrast compensation feature! I love this! It makes shadows lighter without making everything else saturated and ugly. Very cool!


Other Thoughts:

I have a new iMac with iMovie08. The importing does take a bit, and a lot of disk space. Editing is good, and after an export the quality is good (if you have your settings right).
I'm anxious about the first video editor that natively supports AVCHD, cause it is frustrating that I can't just "shoot and edit" anything. I have to shoot, copy, transcode, edit and then export. Too much of a process to make lots of family movies to give to close family. (Maybe that's a good thing for them, eh? hehe)


This camera is exactly what I was looking for except for the AVCHD (and mic input), but hopefully the future will prove the format to not be a problem anymore.
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