Top 5 Camcorders for Dad

PRWeb discusses the top 5 HD camcorders you could buy for your dad on father's day, these would be the Canon VIXIA HF200, Sanyo Xacti VPC-FH1, Flip Video Ultra HD, Sony HDR-CX12 and the Canon VIXIA HV40.

"It's hard to imagine a better Father's Day gift for dad than preserving family memories with a cool new gadget. A new high definition video camera is the perfect complement to the HDTV and Blu-ray player that mysteriously showed up in the living room last year. This year's digital camcorders offer ultimate portability, full high definition recording (1080p), face tracking, and automatic smile detection. Choosing the best camcorder can be difficult, and June 21st is just around the corner, so to simplify your decision here are 5 of the best camcorders for dads."

Buy Canon VIXIA HF200 HD Flash Memory Camcorder with 15x Optical Zoom
Buy Canon VIXIA HV40 HD HDV Camcorder with 10x Optical Zoom
Buy Sanyo VPC-FH1 HD 1080p Flash Memory Camcorder w/ 16x advance zoom (Black)
Buy Sony HDR-CX12 High Definition Memory Stick PRO Duo Handycam Camcorder With 12x Optical Zoom

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Sony HDR-CX12 reviewed

PC Advisor has posted a review of the Sony HDR-CX12 camcorder.

Recording to a SDHC memory card, the Sony HDR-CX12 HD sports a 1/3-inch imaging sensor - a rather large size for a consumer HD camcorder - and HDMI output. It records AVCHD video at a data rate of 16Mbit per second, which is good, but not at the top of the heap.

Overall, the shooting experience with the Sony HDR-CX12 HD is quite comfortable. For manual adjustments as you shoot, Sony thoughtfully included a great control wheel.

Generally speaking, it's much faster and more natural to use an analogue wheel than it is to fiddle a little joystick or click through menus using buttons when you want to manually adjust focus, zoom, exposure, shutter speed, and so on.

Buy a Sony HDR-CX12 High Definition Memory Stick PRO Duo Handycam Camcorder With 12x Optical Zoom

Read the full PC Advisor HDR-CX12 review here.

Sony HDR-CX12 review

Macworld has a review of the Sony HDR-CX12 camcorder.

Overall, the shooting experience with the HDR-CX12 is quite comfortable. For manual adjustments as you shoot, Sony thoughtfully included a great control wheel. Generally speaking, it’s much faster and more natural to use an analog wheel than it is to fiddle a little joystick or click through menus using buttons when you want to manually adjust focus, zoom, exposure, shutter speed, and so on. The intuitive controls make it much easier to shoot in challenging situations or when you want to do more than just capture basic home movies.

Pros
Excellent image quality; comfortable and easy to use; works with iMovie ’09 without a hitch; cool Night Shot and super slow motion shooting modes; good photo stills.
Cons
External mike input available only through Active Interface Shoe; no headphone jack; requires cumbersome docking base to connect to Mac; no progressive video mode.

Buy a Sony HDR-CX12 High Definition Memory Stick PRO Duo Handycam Camcorder With 12x Optical Zoom

Read the full review here.

Sony HDR-CX12 reviewed

PCMag Mid-East has a new review of the Sony HDR-CX12 HD camcorder. Check out the review and images on their page, link at the bottom of the post.
The HDR-CX12 is a high definition (HD) camcorder that captures full 1920 x 1080 in the AVCHD format to MemoryStick Duo cards, and allows support up to 16GB. Sony ships this camcorder with a 4GB MemoryStick PRO Duo card. You might want to note that unlike other camcorders in the market that are similar to the HDR CX-12, this camcorder doesn’t have built-in storage for you to record on. When using the supplied 4GB Memory Stick PRO Duo, you get up to 25 minutes of HD footage when recording it set to full HD, and up to 85mins of HD footage when the recording is set to LP. For standard definition you get up to 55mins of high quality footage while up to 160mins when recording at LP.

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Read the full review here.