Gadgetworthy: Sanyo’s Xacti DMX C1
Sanyo has a pretty cool digital/video camera called the Xacti DMX C1.
This nifty 3.2 Megapixel camera has a 5.8x optical zoom and captures 2048x1536 resolution pictures. The neatest thing about it is the MPEG-4 video captures. The C1 captures full VGA 640x480 resolution at 30 frames per second. There are various quality modes at that resolution. With the largest SD card of 512MB, you can store 21 minutes of highest quality mode video. Lowering the quality to standard quality will get you 1 hour and 21 minutes which isn’t too bad. The unit only weighs 155 grams so it’s pretty light and very pocketable. Battery life is stated at 130 minutes or 60 minutes in movie mode.
I don’t think this thing will ever make it here in the US but there’s always hoping. The use of MPEG-4 allows the camera to get decent amount of clips when you need it. The only thing holding it back is the high price of 512MB SD media…but that’s bound to change in the near future.
More information can be found at Sanyo’s Xacti DMX site.
