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CANON HV20 HD CAMCORDER, $1,750, AVAILABLE MARCH, 2007.
If you just got that new 1080i HD TV so you could watch the Super Bowl ads (who watches the game?) then you might also be thinking, hey, I need a 1080i HD camcorder so that I can catch my family doing those crazy things they do in high definition.
This new offering from Canon features a 10x HD video zoom lens, image stabilization and a Canon True HD 1920×1080 CMos image sensor. And, should you feel the need, you can give your images that film look with 24p cinema mode. You can also shoot 3.1 megapixel stills.
CREATIVE ZEN VISION W VIDEO, PHOTO AND MP3 PLAYER, $480.
While this good-looking portable player has been around for a while in the United States, it has just begun to make its entry into the Canadian market. Featured are a high-rez 4.3-inch screen with a 16:9 format, colour widescreen TFT display. Although Creative has a deal with Apple to create peripherals for its iPods, the company continues to sell competing items like this one, with its ability to play up to 240 hours of video, hold tens of thousands of photos or as many as 15,000 songs.
MICROSOFT WIRELESS LASER MOUSE 8000, $100.
Operating through a mini-Bluetooth transceiver, the Laser Mouse 8000 is being marketed with heavy emphasis on its accompanying horizontal charging station that lets users recharge their mouse quickly with the promise that they’ll only have to do it once a week on average. One of its major features is a customizeable performance slide that allows advanced users to make performance more zippy for those intense PC tasks and the lower it for less labour-intensive work, so that they can save on battery life.
PANASONIC DMC-TZ3 DIGITAL CAMERA, $530, AVAILABLE APRIL 2007.
Nobody really wants to carry a digital SLR with them on vacation, so they tend to turn to cameras like Panasonic’s new DMC-TZ3 which, with its 10x optical zoom, gives the traveller the 35-mm equivalent of a 28-mm to 280-mm lens through its Leica DC Vario-Elmar lens. Also featured in this 7.1-megapixel camera is what Panasonic calls Intelligent Image Stabilization, to help keep those quickly-snapped images blur free. Stainless steel body comes in blue, black and silver.
© The Vancouver Sun 2007
