Now you can capture your reaction to that hilarious stunt you plan to post on YouTube with the handheld Twin Video camera from Ion Audio . That’s right, it has two lenses—one of which brings the filmmaker into the action. The cameras can be independently controlled in picture swapping, picture in picture and split screen modes. It also records on and SD or SDHC card. No HD models as far as I can tell, so the appeal might be limited for some. Unless you are into documentaries or video blogging, it would also be more interesting if the second camera could be positioned to effectively record something other than yourself

Save for slight variations in storage mediums and capacities, resolution, and lenses, Sony’s 13 new Handycam Camcorders aren’t radically different from each other. The ones that matter the most are Sony’s XR550 and CX550, which (yes), has everything mentioned below, but either adds to or improves on its underlings’ offerings with a either 240 gigs of HDD action or 64 gigs of flash storage, 3.5-inch screen, 12 megapixel stills and full manual controls. It also has a color viewfinder and mic/headphone inputs for those budding auteurs out there. Expect the XR550 to cost $1400 and the CX550 to cost $1300 when they come out in late February. There’s the 150 series, where you can get the 120 gig HDD of the XR150, or the 16 gigs of flash storage on the CX150, but they both shoot in 1080p, with a 25x zoom lens, have a steadyshot mode, take 3.1 megapixel stills and come with a 2.7 inch LCD.

The Zi8 is one of the best pocket camcorders around , but maybe the biggest. The Playsport takes the Zi8’s guts—including its 1080p video, 5MP still photo sensor—and crams them into a small, waterproof shell. And? It’s cheaper .

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Here we are at last. RED has finally dropped the full specs of at least one its ” Digital Stills and Motion Cameras .” And what did you expect? RED has naturally blown this thing out. The first camera to be released will be the insanely high-end EPIC-X, which will come out in four stages and retails for $28,000 (ouch).

What’s wrong with that video from last night? Things seems a bit skewed, distorted, and wiggly-jiggly. No, I’m not focused on that redhead in the tiny pink shirt, I’m talking about a fixable issue with CMOS-based video cameras . RollingShutter, a plug-in for After Effects and Nuke, recently came to our attention, not because it’s a good plug-in (although it is), but because it brings up a flaw with CMOS sensors: Video cameras using CMOS sensors tend to suffer from a major annoyance in the form of skewing anytime the camera is shifted or a fast-moving object flies through the frame. This is mainly due to the line-by-line top-to-bottom scanning done by these cameras and it will make your videos look like a mild acid trip. The good news is that this pesky issue can be corrected post-production with tools such as RollingShutter.

We’ve talked about Tachyon’s 3D camera technology , but how does the video actually look? I didn’t have a pair of 3D glasses on hand when I watched this video, so trippy was an understatement.

Ever experience something so EXTREME that you think everyone else should see it from your perspective? Yeah, there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think that. Luckily for us, there’s Tachyon’s 2010 XC Helmet Cam System. Tachyon’s XC system is shock/waterproof and records onto SDHC cards, meaning you can get anywhere between 4 and 32-gigabytes of storage. The 90mm lens provides a so-so amount of wide angle goodness.

The gadget : A direct followup to the excellent Zi6 HD pocket cam , the Zi8 adds a 1080p 30fps mode, a lithium ion battery, image stabilization, HDMI-out and a mic jack. It’s restyled too, and less pudgy. The price: $180 The verdict: Kodak’s first foray into pocket camcorders set them ahead of the pack, at least for a while—a trick they’ve pulled off again with the Zi8. They’ve stolen back the top spot not with video quality—though it is impressive—but with a few obvious features that, until now, hadn’t trickled down to this price point.

Brian enthusiastically called the original SD Hero helmet camera, an easy-to-use wide-angle shooter, ” cheap and amazing .” With 1080p recording and 720p slow motion capability, GoPro’s new Hero sacrifices a little of that first adjective for a ton of the second. Cosmetically, the HD Hero (pictured above, outlined in red) is basically indistinguishable from the previous version, and the similarities run deep: it’s got the same 170° field of view, an identical 5MP still shooting mode and the same water-resistant credentials. But hardware performance has been bolstered elsewhere, with support for 30fps shooting in 1080p mode and 60fps shooting in 720p, all powered by a larger 1100mAh Li-Ion battery for up to three hours of recording per charge. For such a large performance jump on such a new camera a price hike is inevitable, but it’s really not that bad. The $300 price is at least in the same range as the $200 base model, and judging by the previous model, I’d expect the footage—especially in the 720p slo-mo mode—to be fairly spectacular.