We knew Samsung had a good thing going with the
HMX-R10, and sure enough, that styling has rubbed off heavily on the company's newest pair. The SMX-C14 and SMX-C10 are both "ergonomic"
camcorders which boast the company's Touch of Color finish and the practically iconic Active Angle Lens. Specs wise, we're told that they include a 10x optical zoomer, Hyper Image Stabilization (oxymoron much?) and a 230,000-dot, swiveling 2.7-inch wide LCD screen. Strangely (and inexcusably, really), Sammy failed to mention what resolution these capture at, so we could be looking at two 4K
RED competitors or VGA shooters that can't even outdo those uninspiring offerings from
DXG. At any rate, we're told that the C14 comes with 16GB of internal flash along with an SD / SDHC expansion slot, while the C10 gets by with just a slot. Finally, both units include one-touch YouTube uploads and just under three hours of life on a single charge; they'll splash down this July for undisclosed amounts.
Update: Both shoot at 720 x 480/60i.
posted Apr 29th 2009 8:59AM
that looks immensly sweet
What can I say?
Beautiful design!!! Looks very ergonomic.
looks totally awesome...
The color tone looks much like the LG Scarlett.
Fricken ugly!
Beautiful design. Looks very ergonomic.
Isn't that lens pointing up?
Are you are supposed to point the camera down to get a horizontal view?
if I was female , id do bad things to that 'ergonomic' design.
I hope not. I'm hoping that the case in the front is angled, even around the lens, but that the actual lens is still straight. It better be anwway lol or that's a deal breaker.
when you hold your arm up and bend your fingers a bit you will see, why the lens looks up
When you hold a camera small like this, your wrist position is naturally bent. You will have push it back to make the camera straight, what this design does, is avoid wrist tension, by letting you hold the camera comfortably and keeping your wrist in natural position.
If you were to keep the camera parallel to the ground you would need to put your arm perpendicular to the ground, that is very uncomfortable.
In a tripod, you may need to adjust it a little.... I don't know.
Just for your information: You wrote "include include".
eeeewwww....
beeeeewwwwwwwwtiful*
There, I fixed for you.
sexy! but how do these angled lens cameras work on a tripod?
Most tripods can adjust forward or back.
That's definitely some stylish.
The upward angle lens is obviously catering to the Japanese up-skirt shot market.
hahaha love it.
Not high???? WTF? What a waste. Eeryone should be converting to high def
While watching "The Gadget Show' on Channel 5 in the Uk, a similiar model of samsung was being reviewed and the reviewer said during the field test that he could not get on with it due to the angle of the lens. He went onto say that for years he had trained his brain to hold a video camera a certain way i.e. straight of directly in line of the action and the way this camera has been created makes it very hard to adapt/get in on the action.
Looks awesome!
This will match my Samsung 40" 7 Series monitor.
Looks great!
This will match my Lamborghini Murcielago supercar.
It matches my TV! But the tech specs are what matters.
REAL men do not describe gadgets as gorgeous.
It's astounding how many so-called tech blogs there are that have a verbatim copy of this (and other) engadget article(s), often they mention engadget underneath it but not always, but it does seem a bit.. you know, to just have a ton of sites with the engadget stuff and call it a blog, even if you mention it's from engadget..
pretty sexy
That would be hard to hold in bed
They do seem nice, with optical zoom and what not, but personally I like it when you can attach things to the lens, filters and stuff.
And does it have a protection shutter for the lens?
Snooping around I get the impression they seem to be DVD resolution, and it seems for HD versions samsung puts a H in the name.
looks good in picture
I agree with Wwhat about the cameras being DVD resolution (or SD resolution). On the Samsung site, the currently offered HD camcorders are prefixed with 'HMX' and they offer one SD camcorder that is prefixed with 'SMX'.
I wonder if Samsung will describe the battery on this one as "three hour long time battery" (actually written on the box that way) as they did on the previous models, lol.
If these have the 11mm sensor size that the HMX-R10 has, how can you even mention it in the same sentence with Red's 35mm sensor size?
thats a glossy camcorder.. the design doesnt suit me..
looks like a fingerprint magnet, and it doesn't have a very good zoom. And whats with the angled lens? I prefer the Sony Handycam SX40/41.
they record in SD resolution. the press release mentioned that
"Thanks to H.264 compression, which drastically enhances recording times when used with standard definition video, users can record over six hours of footage directly to the SMX-C14’s 16GB of built-in memory."
the prefix SMX also suggests that
This sexy camcorder looks like it had a boob job.
The design looks like R10. I like the desing though.