Review of Logitech HD Webcam C525

Logitech has launched two new HD webcam recording, namely, C 310 and C525. We got the C525 which has tested the 720p video recording, a compact folding stand and a new Logitech webcam software that offers fun image and video effects.


Design and build quality
The webcam is quite compact, with a double-end stand that allows you to easily direct on your screen laptop screen or even on your desk. When not in use, just after the very face of the lens cover for protection, when not in use. The body has a ball joint connecting it to the stand so you can turn 360 degrees while you record.

Feature
The video quality is excellent 720p is a machine powerful enough, but the shot begins with slower machines. Webcam is perfect for video chatting online with its clarity and capture high resolution video and you can also use a Logitech Vid HD video and pictures to share on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube with just one click .

The webcam has a built-in microphone eliminates background noise very effectively. The camera also has autofocus and features real-time improvement of lighting that allow you to capture clear, sharp 8 megapixel pictures. The software comes with the webcam includes some fun features and filters to make improvements to your images, and also add effects to your photos and videos like the neon colors, fish-eye distortions and a mask maker.

There is also an additional 60 days free trial of facial recognition software can be downloaded from Logitech. Explore your face and you can use a password to protect your computer or specific files or data.


Performance
To preserve the quality of your HD media, the captured images and recorded videos are stored as compressed files. This means you will need a good amount of free storage if you're planning to record HD video well.

Verdict
Logitech recommends that you have an Internet connection of at least 1 Mbps for video chat without problems. Mac users are so that the webcam is not compatible with Mac OS. Apart from that, the C525 is only real drawback is the exorbitant price of Rs. 2995.

Read more »

Nokia N9 did 8 hours and 40 minutes of video playback in A single time charge

As we abide the harder plan on the Nokia N9 analysis we are able to accompany you yet addition absorbing tidbit about the smartphone in advance. We just completed the video playback ability analysis of the MeeGo flagship and we were appealing afflicted by its performance.

The Nokia N9 managed acceptable 8 hours and 40 account of video playback afore its array went from abounding to 10%. That’s a appealing abundant achievement, which compares agreeably to every added smartphone we’ve put to the aforementioned test, but the iPhone 4. Check out the complete rankings:

As for the testing procedure: we answerable anniversary handset until it said abounding and angled a accepted analogue XviD video with the awning accuracy set to 50% until the array akin fell to 10% (beyond that point a lot of of them automatically about-face off the video amateur and don’t acquiesce restarting it).

Read more »

Review of Sony HDR – PJ50E Handycam

In contempo years, camcorders accept taken a backseat attributable to the success of point-and-shoot cameras and high-end smartphones, which action top superior video abduction at an about similar, if not better, quality. Sony has launched its new HDR – PJ50E that boasts of accepting capabilities of a camera, video recorder and an congenital projector. Well, that’s absolutely a lot of being in one device, but is it account your money? Read on to acquisition out.

Design and Body Quality
Sony’s HDR – PJ50E has a bright atramentous exoteric with shades of argent on the frame. The foreground consists of the optical lens and an LED flash. The zoom button, approach selection, photo button and the Beam aperture are amid on the top and the start/stop button for video recording is amid at the aback of the camcorder. The ancillary flips accessible to affectation the viewfinder, as able-bodied as the power, play and projector button. The connectivity buttons are housed on the inside, as well, viz. the mic, mini HDMI out and microUSB. The slots ability be there, but the camcorder doesn’t address with the HDMI cable or the microUSB cable. The projector focus button is placed on the top of the accessory while the basal consists of the microSD agenda slot.

The camcorder articulation seems sturdy, but it doesn’t accept any blockage apparatus to assure it in case you breeze it on too hard. Button acknowledgment is acceptable with both bendable presses (for focus), as able-bodied as abounding presses (for clicking). The camcorder weighs about a kg with the array and the HDD included, but it doesn’t absolutely feel abundant in the hand. The button adjustment is abundant but that said, with the accessory accessible it’s difficult to manoeuvre as the buttons are amid on all three abandon of the camcorder. The accessory can move a best of 180 degrees in the foreground administration and 90 degrees on the back, which makes it a absolute of 270 degrees of rotation. Design and body is good, which is accepted with a lot of camcorders.

Features

The camcorder has an Exmor R CMOS Sensor and a 29.8 mm advanced bend Sony G Lens able of beat up to 7.1 megapixel still account shots at a resolution of 3072 x 2304. It has a 12x optical zoom and 160x agenda zoom and comes with a 220GB harder deejay drive and supports SD cards upto 64GB. The camcorder has a 5.1channel MIC with Dolby Agenda audio technology and a 3-inch LCD blow console affectation with a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio.

As allotment of the features, the camcorder has ‘Optical SteadyShot’ technology that facilitates angel stabilisation. The acessory has face apprehension and smile apprehension features, which pop up in white and orange aboveboard boxes respectively. It aswell comes with the x.v. colour technology, which conforms to the xvYCC, an all-embracing accepted for colour amplitude in videos forth with a D-range optimiser that works on the camcorder’s Bionz processor.
User Interface
The camcorder has a simple UI and operating it is added accentuated by the active account of the draft screen. Opening the accent takes you to the cine access by absence and the menu, zoom and recording icons pop up on the screen. The agenda includes six acutely accurate icons viz. acid access option, camera/mic settings, angel quality/size, playback functions, edit/copy function, and setup.

Shifting amid the assorted modes and altering settings is a breeze, even in the projector mode. The zoom button duals up as the forward/backward directional button and the photo button gets re-mapped as an access key. Sony’s limited handles this even bigger with committed keys.

The flap could have been better reinforced

Performance
The auto focus for the still camera works able-bodied while beat abroad shots, as able-bodied as abutting ups for macro shooting. The 7.1 megapixel camera is good, but this device’s primary action is the video camera. Video cutting is awfully still with Sony’s angel stabilization feature. Zooming in and out of frames is acutely steady, which is a additional point. The altered approach presets are effective, and movement is captured with accomplished data after abashing out. Acknowledgment and adverse are appealing able-bodied meted out and backlight advantage is able for videos taken in low ablaze conditions. Subtleties like facial data are captured appealing well. If assuming adjoin a awful assorted background, acknowledgment and adverse levels are auto corrected, which do accomplish the accountable attending abundant better. Whilst extenuative videos, an absorbing affair to agenda is that if a cine book exceeds 2GB, the next cine book is created automatically.

The handycam is small but has powerful features

We initially had a activity that the projector was alone a gimmick, but we were animated that the congenital one in this camcorder accepted us wrong. It could accept been brighter, but the accuracy is absolutely acceptable and optimum examination admeasurement is about 62 inches. Though we did administer to annoyance it to about 102 inches with almost any arresting bead in quality. And that’s why, the projector is absolutely included as a allotment of the appearance and isn’t alone a gimmick.

A brilliant projector

Verdict
The Sony HDR – PJ50E is priced at Rs. 59,990. Some may accept this to be acutely expensive, but because the actuality that you’re accepting an HD camera that clicks still images, awfully able-bodied and captures 1080p videos, forth with getting a absolutely anatomic projector, you’re besmirched for choice. If you accept the money, and wish a camcorder and projector chip into one, Sony’s HDR – PJ50E is the absolute match.

Read more »