More than just a go-anywhere accessory, the Xacti C5 stands out as a positive fashion statement. At a mere 124 cc, the petite Xacti C5 was designed to suggest an elegant silver-jewelry motif. The hand-grip and lenses are angled to enable a natural shooting style, echoing the ergonomic design of the earlier Xacti C-Series models. And the Xacti C5's pocket-fitting, super-slender frame will change the way you think about movie cameras - turning the movie-making process into something much more personal.SANYO has developed a super high-speed engine that enables you to shoot 5-megapixel stills and MPEG-4 movies simultaneously. While shooting high-resolution movies with the digital image stabilizer, you can take a still photo at a resolution of 5 megapixels without even switching modes. You need never miss another photo opportunity while shooting a movie.SANYO's original algorithm uses a pixel-interpolation filter to convert the CCD's 5.1 effective megapixels to the recorded equivalent of 10 megapixels (3680 x 2760 pixels). This filter enables clear printouts of detailed images without sacrificing image fidelity, even when printing onto A3 paper or enlarging part of an image. The Xacti C5's slim, 23 mm-wide body comes equipped with a 5x optical zoom lens. Used in conjunction with the digital zoom, it enables up to 60x zooming capability.Being able to connect the Xacti C5 to a TV, VCR, PC or DVD recorder means you can easily play back recorded images and stills on a large screen, or make back-up copies of your recorded content while you're playing it back. After placing the Xacti C5 in the docking station, you can save recorded video clips and still images onto your computer's hard disk, where they can be edited freely.
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Review: [BTW: The Fisher and Sanyo models are the same}
When I first heard about the Fisher Cameracorder I was truely amazed: this is what I have been looking for since my first digital camera with 15 sec video ciip capability: Combine a TRUE digital camera and TRUE digital camcorder.
Pros:
1. Very small and lightweight. Perfect to put in your pocket. Exponentially better than lugging around a bog dumb camcorder. Infact, I carry my Cameracorder everywhere I go. Can't say that about your camcorder, can you?
2. Easy to use.
3. SD memory cards are used everywhere and come in capacities up to 2GB+. Hours of record time at max quality, and you can just pop it into your media card reader on your computer.
Cons:
1. Taking a picture WHILE recording video results in a pause in the video and an audible shudder-click.
2. Quality of video, while better than digital cameras, isn't as good as dedicated camcorders. It is 640x480 30fps. It's ok tho.
3. Very poor low-light-level video and pictures. I have adjusted the settings so actual pictures turn out ok (but looking through the viewfinder is still dark), but these settings do not modify (amplify) video.
4. Adobe Premiere has troubles editing MPEG-4 (even though the newest version says it's compatible). It's very slow compared to other formats.
5. Quality of pictures is not that great. Don't just go by megapixel count. The lens quality makes and HUGE difference in picture quality. My Cannon ELPH took fantasic pictures, better than this camera. So did my Sony Cybershot with Carl Veis lens.
My Sanyo is having a problem where the screen will be totally dark (sometimes) when I first turn it on. I have to switch from REC to PLAY mode and take a picture for the screen to turn on. Also, for a couple months the Video Record and Playback functions were non-op. I think I may have gotten some water in the camera. It's been working correctly lately.
