Miniket (CamCoder) From Samsung

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://akiba.sorobangeeks.com/news_8899.html' target='_blank'>http://akiba.sorobangeeks.com/news_8899.html</a><br /><br /></div>"It is the war without mercy in the field of the caméscope of pocket. After the last JVC, here Miniket de Samsung which is available in 3 versions: 256, 512MB and 1GB. It is able to record MP3 but also and of course APN and Caméscope (MPEG4 with 30fps in max 720x480). It has like Xacti a stabilizer of image and an optical zoom 10x and 100x for the digital one. Finally you can to also be useful you about it like webcam. On the other hand I do not manage to see the resolution of the sensor, 3 or 4 Mpix????"<br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/miniket.jpg" /><br /><br />There aren't very many details on this tiny camcorder, but the above specs already show promise. Do any of own the mini-sized camcorders? What kind of specs do you look for when buying (or looking to buy) a camcorder?

[bmhome1]

I have the grandfather of flash-based camcorders, last year's Panasonic AV100 which captures full DVD-spec MPEG2 clips on SD cards that are directly burnable to DVD without any re-encoding. The 704x480 30fps MPEG2's with stereo PCM audio can be VERY good, especially in good lighting. A 1GB card captures 22 minutes at best quality setting.

The AV100 is still the smallest-size champ, really tiny, but still full-featured with 10X optical zoom, 2.5" LCD and optical stabilization.

Best of all it can be found heavily-discounted from original retail $1,000.00. I found mine new for $465.00 this summer, a real bargain. There's a user group forum here:

http://www.jackbrown.us/camera/