Despite not having the best picture quality, it’s amazing at
places you don’t want to use your expensive smartphone.
Toshiba Camileo
Clip
Camileo Clip of Toshiba has a nearly same size and weight as
a matchbox. The 1.5-inch screen fits entirely in a big plastic tong which helps
you to attach it to a belt or an overcoat pocket while walking. The rubber
coating also helps it to resist water and shock. This brings you confidence to
use Camileo Clip in environments that you won’t use camcorder, such as noisy
party and outdoor activities in winter.
Despite the size, Camileo Clip is not a VGA webcam. It can
record in Full HD 1080p at the speed of 30fps, or 720p at 30fps or 60fps. You
can also record videos in 480p resolution at at the speed of 30fps. As common
as the normal camcorders, you can take photos. Camileo Clip takes 16MP photos
if you just want to snap. Sadly, although there’s nothing to surprise when Clip
only has 128MB attached storage. You will need microSD memory card to record videos,
because 128MB capacityis enough for a 46-second Full HD scene. A microSD 1GB memory
card can only record 15 minutes of movies, so it’s the best to use at least microSD
4GB card.
Camileo Clip has battery timer of 1 hour and 6 minutes. It
seems not much for the recording time, but it will be fine if you just record
small sections of an event. Battery is sealed in Clip cover so that you can’t
change battery; this is a camcorder that you only want to use for short records.
About the image quality, we aren’t impressed with the image
stabilization system, especially when moving forward. Besides, there are
vibrations when panning the camera slowly. Image noise is very common in light
rooms or dark environments and high image compression means that the scenes of Clip
lag behind the scene of a full camcorder. However, it’s hard to criticize the
60-pound Clip with these errors. Its scenes are pretty good for a price level
like that.
Clip doesn’t have optical zoom, but 10x digital zoom. We
don’t need to zoom too far to make the scene become blurred and affected by
digital artifacts so it’s better to leave this function alone. Similarly,
stills of Clip are in poor quality due to compression. Some areas of the image are
blurred and lacks detail.
Clip service
The controls of Clip are quite difficult to use. Record
button and menu button are easy to use, but its four direction buttons are
small and soft, and none of them provide any feedback when pressed. Directing
the menus of Clips is easy to do, but you can see just one menu option each
time; it takes time to get used to every option in a sub-menu.
Fortunately, Clip has many features that support your video
making, for example: motion detection, face tracking, slow motion, available
record, time lapse, continuous play and sound recorder, as well as standard scene
effects, white balance and color filter. It also comes with 2 DVDs which
contains Plus Trial version of Video Deluxe MX, and useful user manual document.
Many features are not as complicated as a knife-switch, but it’s good to have
them, and the software for desktop computer is a plus.
The controls of Clip
are pretty difficult to use.
The mixed doubles battle
Good feature of Camileo Clip is webcam. We think it work
well as a webcam, although it’s pretty expensive if you only use it for that
purpose. You can find cheaper options at other places such as HD Webcam C270 15
pounds of Logitech.
Camileo Clip of Toshiba is a good advice but it’s hard to
see the reason why you want to use it instead of smartphone, especially when
many smartphones is now recording videos in 720p or 1080p format; many smartphones
also record video in higher quality. Thanks to that reason, Clip is very
suitable for those who don’t want to bring the expensive smartphone to a party
or another environment where it can be damaged.
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Info
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Price: $90, including VAT
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Website: www.argos.com
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Ranking: 3/5
Technical
specs
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Sensor: 5MP CMOS
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Archive: 128MB flash archive, microSD
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Zoom: no
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Screen: 1 ½ in LCD
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PC connection: mini HDMI output, Mini USB
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A/V Interface: no
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Size: 79.9x43x19.5; 85g
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Warranty: 2-year RTB
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Battery timer: 1 hour 6 minutes
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