Toshiba Camileo S20 Full HD 1080p Camcorder UK version - Black

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The X-Sports’ menu provides you with the usual array of video options, and you can choose to shoot Full HD video at up to 60fps. If you reduce the resolution to 720p you can even shoot at 120fps, which is useful for creating slow-motion videos. The menu is easy to enough to use, considering the limited amount of buttons, and we had no trouble seeing it outdoors in daylight. The S20 follows the trend of the last couple of years and provides built-in Internet connectivity. As soon as you plug the device into a PC via USB, you will be prompted to install the H.264 codec from the S20’s onboard memory, if it isn’t on your system already. The YouTube Direct software will then start up straight from device as well. However, its features are extremely limited, offering just the ability to input and save your YouTube login, and then upload your video as a public or private clip. You can’t even provide a YouTube category or tagging information. The top three icons let you toggle image stabilisation, change the recording format, and turn on the LED video light or Digital Light modes. The latter essentially ramps up the video gain, so you can see more detail and a brighter image in poor illumination. Along the bottom, the full menu provides access to these features again, but also some fun additional options. Naturally, other manufacturers have been keen to get involved and Toshiba is one of the most recent to join the fray with its Camileo X-Sports.

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We're not saying the camera is worthless. Its cool set of special effects would make it a great gift for a child who aspires to make films, skateboarders seeking to capture face plants in slow-motion, or someone who wants to cruelly document how many people slip on the same ice patch outside his flat. Although it doesn’t have a built-in USB plug, relying on a cable instead, there is software on board. The Camileo Uploader app is very limited, offering just the ability to send your footage to YouTube, Facebook, Picasa and Twitvid. However, there’s also a CD included with Arcsoft Media Impression and Converter, plus a trial of MAGIX Video Deluxe, if you want to do something a bit more sophisticated with your video. But it is impossible to get past the iffy video and still-picture quality. If it could shoot good video, it would be a must-buy. Without it, the Camileo S30 is merely a toy. If you want to edit footage from the S20, it’s recorded as AVIs and we found these compatible with all the software we tried. However, being H.264 performance is extremely slow, making editing a relatively laborious process with the 1080p footage. Toshiba supplies Video deluxe 15 Plus and Movie Edit Pro 15 Plus, both from MAGIX, in the box, but they’re just trial versions.Although we’ve not been hugely impressed by the image quality afforded by previous Toshiba Camileos, the X400 provides surprisingly decent performance. In good lighting, colours are bright and faithful, with a relatively sharp picture. Low light performance is a little less exciting. Although the X400 does maintain a reasonable level of brightness, but the white balance isn’t very accurate and there’s a noticable loss in detail. The H30 is built around a 10-megapixel CMOS sensor – twice the resolution of the S20’s, although as with the latter Toshiba hasn’t publicised the physical size of this sensor. A modicum of interpolation is added to bring the still image resolution up to 16-megapixels. There’s a small flash built into the H30 to help with photography, but unlike the S20 no LED video light is provided. There are four video shooting modes available, all of which use MPEG-4 H.264 compression. Alongside the top Full HD 1080p resolution, which runs at 30 frames per second, there are two 720p options, running at 30 and 60 frames per second, plus VGA running at 30 frames per second. There’s 128MB of storage on board, but that’s enough for little more than a minute of footage, and we have to ask why Toshiba even included it. Instead, there’s a slot on the top for SD memory, which supports SDXC so can accommodate cards larger than 32GB. With Full HD video recorded at a reasonably respectable 13Mbits/sec, 1GB of SD storage will be enough for around 10 minutes of footage, or 40 minutes of VGA. First the controls: The touchscreen functions are somewhat "hard of feeling." They are only reluctantly responsive, and you often find yourself repeating an unheeded command. When you try to play a video on a TV, the controls stay onscreen and cover up a good portion of the top and bottom of the picture. Another added extra supplied with the Camileo X-Sports is the wireless remote. This has a wrist strap and allows the shooting mode to be changed and recording to be stopped and started.

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The biggest news is that the jog dial has been superseded by a touch-screen control system. With the fixed lens, this doesn’t provide any touch focusing, and it doesn’t offer touch exposure either. But the menu options, such as they are, have been made a little easier to access. Simply touch the screen to call up the menu, with functions accessible via icons at the top and bottom of the screen. The X-Sports has a built-in Wi-Fi system to allow the camera to connect with a smartphone via Toshiba's Wi-Fi Connect app. This enables scenes to be composed on the phone screen and then shared. Helpfully, simultaneously captured lower resolution (WVGA) video is available for sharing, but transfer is still time consuming. You’re able to capture burst images at up to 30fps, although you’ll have to reduce the resolution to five megapixels. At the camera’s full 12-megapixel resolution the maximum burst rate is only 10fps. A simultaneous video and photo setting allows you to record video footage while capturing a still image at specific intervals. In our battery test, the Camileo lasted one hour and 32 minutes while recording video at 1080p/30fps, which matches Toshiba’s claimed battery life. The Li-ion battery is user-replaceable, so you can buy more and replace drained batteries in the field. Also for the photos, the camera is also equipped with functions such as detection and smile, which allow you to always have beautiful portraits. Other features include white balance, with various options, the power-saving mode, the built-in flash, various scene modes for still images. Absent instead image stabilizer, and this is a major flaw.Action cams are intended for use during extreme sports and they need to be attached to a huge range of items, from helmets to surfbords. Helpfully, Toshiba supplies a large collection of mounts in the box, including a Flat Clip Mount, Flat Adhesive Mount, Curved Adhesive Mount, Side Mount, Bike Mount, Vented Helmet Mount, Surfboard Mount and Tripod Mount. Build and handling The lens is also fixed, as before, with just a macro switch on the top adjusting the physical lens configuration for close-up shooting. So both the zoom and image stabilisation are digital. However, you can now use both even when shooting Full HD, unlike with the S20, and the digital zoom has been boosted considerably to 16x, although resolution still suffers considerably when the zoom is called upon, and image stabilisation crops into the frame slightly too.

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Speaking specifically of video quality with the Toshiba Camileo X150 you can get Full HD movies in MP4 format, so with a maximum resolution of 1,920×1,080 pixels, of course with the ability to choose other resolutions, up to the lowest VGA. Of course, there the opportunity to take photos in JPEG format, in this case 12 megapixel, which translates into a maximum resolution of 4,608×3,456 pixels. It is certainly emphasized the ability to take pictures even while recording a video. On the surface, this camera looks like a great deal. It has a pistol form factor and a relatively large, 3-inch flip-out touchscreen. The design of the Camileo X-Sports looks very similar to the GoPro Hero3, and it’s reasonably compact. The X-Sports weighs 94g, so it’s slightly heavier than the GoPro Hero3 and Sony HDR-AS15, but you probably won’t notice the extra weight when the X-Sports is mounted on your helmet. For comparison, I held a Flip HD right next to the Toshiba Camileo and shot the same scene with both cameras at the same time. Toshiba has provided some more fun-oriented facilities. There’s a motion sensing setting, which triggers recording when there’s action in the frame. The time lapse mode records a frame every 1, 3 or 5 seconds. There’s also a slow motion option which grabs video at four times the normal speed but at a lowly 320 x 240 resolution.The unit's lithium-ion battery is removable, unlike the Flip's closed-box system. The camera also uses SD cards, which is great unless you're so cheap that you can't cough up a couple of fins for a 4-GB card. So far so good, right?