March 01, 2005
Totoro and myself were at the HQ of Sanyo Japan (not far from Akihabara) this afternoon where the release of the new Xacti C5 was held.
As the name indicates, this C5 is a redesigned Xacti with a 5MP sensor. One of the big innovations, besides the dimensions of the video sensor, are the weight and reduced dimensions of this beast. This C5 is only 23mm thick and weighs only 145g! Yes, you read that correctly, only 23mm thick! This is an absolutely razor-sharp design! For your info, the engineers at Sanyo managed to reduce the electronics by 40% compared to a C4 and still there is a remarkable progress when it comes to functionalities on the device.
The C5 also has a 2" control screen, which is very practical.
As usual, the Xacti takes pictures and records video. These videos have a maximum resolution of 640x480 at 30fps and 3Mbps.
(Hey Eli - let's get tape out of the hands of videobloggers ASAP. -kc.)
Yeah! The C5. I've been using the C4 for a few months now and I'm addicted to it! Sanyo was tight lipped about when it was going to release this. I knew it was going to be soon, but not this soon! Too bad they are releasing the C4 in the US in May, and the C5 won't get here until next year (I spoke to a Sanyo rep, and due to FTC regulations, it takes a year for them to get a new product here). I guess I'll have to seek it out on eBay again!
According to the discussion on Akihabara, it'll be out (in Japan) at the end of March with a MSRP almost twice as high as the C4. If that turns out to be true, I'm going to take a nice long look at the JVC Everio series instead.
The Everio's are quite expensive too. We just got one for this CEO that's gonna start vlogging, but I haven't had a chance to get my hands on it.
I'm currently leaning toward the Sony DSC-M1.
*or* a little Sony spycam, with this PVR.
Correction: SRP on the C5 is going to be 72000¥ which is about $690US. That's about the same price as the C4 when it was first released. Chuck: if you play with the M1, let me know your impressions.
When is this camera going to be available in the US?
it’s available at Sharper Image stores in the US right now at $799
Sanyo`s C4 was a superb device if I could find a DVD-Player/recorder on the market which could play C4`s video ouput format ( .mp4) from a disk and/or straith from the SD chip. SANYO does not produce such a DVD player so I am left with a 50% perfect solution. A SW-update to SANYO`s C4 enabling ( .avi format) would make it a 100% beloved beast!
@jschmid
You can burn the videos with nero as svcd and watch them on your tv!
You can play Mpeg-4 video on some new DVD players. I assume that means you can just save the mp4 files on a CD or DVD and play them from the new DVD player. I have the the C1 and just burn the video onto standard DVDs using Roxio Toast on my Mac.
I'm using Sanyo Xacti C4 for 2 months and I recommend this amazing tool to all tech-freaks. I also recommend you to play the videos with Nero Showtime to experience full motion / full screen 30 fps movies with 16 Bit 48Khz Stereo recorded by Xacti C4.
Here in the US I saw the C5 in an Apple brick and mortar store for 699 usd. They didn't seem to have a price card or any info, they were just attached to a few of the ibooks. The sales person had to look up the price online,,,, Anyway I just got one on ebay for 480 usd. I have a few other little SD vidcams and am anticipating that this will be the best one based on what I've read and the specs...
I have a xacti C5 and its a fantastic lil camera , now i have been having problems and i want to ask if it has a night mode for video capturing
I have researched the M1, C4 and C5 extensively and frankly M1 was terrible. Blurred photos despite numerous setting changes and mediocre video output. The c5 (and c4 for that matter) blows it away. Take the c5, only downside is night video, but its no worse than any other digicam. Photos are superior to Sonys by a mile also.
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Yeah! The C5. I've been using the C4 for a few months now and I'm addicted to it! Sanyo was tight lipped about when it was going to release this. I knew it was going to be soon, but not this soon! Too bad they are releasing the C4 in the US in May, and the C5 won't get here until next year (I spoke to a Sanyo rep, and due to FTC regulations, it takes a year for them to get a new product here). I guess I'll have to seek it out on eBay again!
Posted by: Yves at March 2, 2005 11:08 AM