Published on 09/25/2007
Toshiba has just announced the Gigashot A100F camcorder, making it the smallest "Full HD" camcorder in the world. It will feature a shock-mounted, 1.8" 100GB disk with 1/3" CMOS sensor 2 megapixel stills or 1,920 x 1,080 recordings at 60fps with 16bit/48kHz Dolby digital stereo audio at a 384kbps bit rate. This means you get approximately a dozen hours of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 formatted video of the highest quality, while standard mode will garner nearly double that amount at 23 hours. Other features include an SDHC memory card slot, a 3" LCD display, 10x optical zoom, HDMI and component out, and USB linkup. It measures a mere 78.1mm x 135.4mm x 79.0mm to lay claim to the title as the world's smallest "Full HD" camcorder with an integrated hard drive. The high end Gigashot A100F will ship from November onwards for $1,628 while at the lower end of the spectrum you can pick one up for $935.