Sony just updated their Bloggie pocket camcorder line with the Bloggie Touch. What’s new? A more advanced CMOS sensor that can handle full HD recording and—just like everyone and everything else, it seems—a 3-inch touchscreen to replace most of the controls save for one button.
Before anything else, let’s establish something: the retro-styled Olympus E-P2 that was first launched late last year already came in black, but the accessories usually came in silver. Let’s just say that the color combo just didn’t work, and it certainly spoiled the E-P2’s old school style. In case that was all that prevented you from picking up this Micro Four-Thirds cam—an awesome snapper to pack if you’re into more than just pointing-and-shooting, by the way—Olympus just announced a couple of all-black kits for the E-P2, which basically packs the cam along with matching black accessories.
We’ve seen rugged/waterproof point-and-shoot cams before. You know the type: easy-click compacts that can take a 3-foot drop onto concrete and plunge down to around 10 feet of water. Ricoh’s new rugged cam, the G700, offers something new though: chemical resistance. Specifically, the housing can handle disinfection with ethanol and hypochlorous acid aside from the usual soap and water mix you’d normally use on your regular pool-party snapper.
You somehow knew it was inevitable that someone would the relatively small pocket camcorder niche would soon replace those tiny screens and basic buttons with full touchscreens. Kodak did it a couple of days ago with the Playtouch, and now JVC drops a couple into the mix with the Picsio GC-FM2 and GC-WP10. While both feature 1080p recording and a relatively large 3-inch screen that takes up the whole area at the back, the WP10 offers a different twist with a waterproof case.
Kodak just unveiled a new pocket camcorder that changes the Flip’s basic video recording device standard by replacing the usual tiny screen with a full 3-inch touchscreen. It’s not the Playtouch’s highlight though; this compact cam also records videos in 1080p HD, shoots 5MP stills, and packs a set of in-cam tech that makes it more like a full-on compact digicam than your average pocket camcorder.
