Sanyo just announced their Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD1 Digital mini video camera (try saying that 3 times fast) at the Sanyo press conference at the Ebisu Garden Palace in Tokyo, and the dudes from Akihabara News was there. Here’s a few snips from the Akihabara report:

The HD1 has roughly the same dimensions as the C6, but the lense is a bit bigger (f=6.3-63mm, which gives in 35mm 38-380mm), the flash light is stuck to the top and it has a 5.1MP resolution. It supports SD cards up to 2GB.

When it comes to HD, this Xacti records in 720p with a resolution of 1280×720 and at 30fps and 9mbps. To give you an idea what you can record on a 2GB SD, in the best setting (HD-SHQ) you can record 28 minutes and 45 seconds, so on a 256MB card you can record 3 minutes and 36 seconds of footage.

The device measures 80×119x36mm and weighs 235g fully loaded (Sd and battery).

And guess what, the dudes have live video samples shot with the Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD1 on their site, and they’re amazing quality for a camera so tiny. Anyway, if you want to pich up a couple, the Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD1 should be available in February for about 900 Euros ($1,085 USD). (No word on NA availability yet)

[Source: Akihabara News]

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