Mustek DV520T
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This appears to be some kind of digital camera. Oh wait, if you look near the bottom there it’s got headphones. Maybe it’s a video camera. If it is, in fact, a video camera it looks like a very handy and portable one. On the up side that means you’re more likely to carry it with you and therefore get more good shit but on the down side the lack of weight means your picture will be wobblier. I guess you could set it on a table or something. Actually, scratch that. These are all small so we’re not going to include wobbliness as a differentiating factor. This camera is almost definitely very good.
$180 • Available from Mustek.com
Panasonic SDR-S10
*****
I am 90% sure this is a video camera. It looks really compact but there’s probably some kind of window thing that opens up that you can see through. At the back there’s probably a panel that has all kinds of plugs where you can put stuff in like RCA cables and whatnot. I have a really fancy Sony one that cost me about $3,000 and it has that. Judging by the price I’d wager my video camera is 7.5 times better than this one. But that doesn’t mean it’s not good. It’s actually more than good. It gets five stars!
$400 • Available from Panasonic.com
Samsung SC-X300L
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Initially, when I saw all these I thought some of them might be projectors. That makes no sense. Projectors wouldn’t have headphones and you can’t really get one for under $800. These have to be video cameras. It’s amazing how cheap they are though. I guess now that digital cameras can make movies the technology is there to make super cheap high quality video cameras. This one looks kind of like the very first digital cameras with a head that protrudes a bit and may very well rotate. If it does have that feature that’s lame because why wouldn’t you just turn the whole camera around? These things are tiny so turning them around should be a cinch. So yeah, besides the rotating head thing this camera’s also a fantastic buy.
$4880 • Available from Samsung.com
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I heard they’re coming out with a better one, but I don’t remember when, or by whom. I’m gonna just wait this thing out.
Oh, it was silver, if that helps.
01.28.08 at 2:26 am
Great post, thanks for the info
04.02.09 at 9:12 pm