Toshiba Camileo S20 Full HD 1080p Camcorder UK version - Black

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Footage is captured to SDXC memory card, although there is a X416 variant available in some parts of the world which comes with 16GB of memory on board. A 16GB allocation will be enough for around four hours of footage at the top quality setting. The format used is MP4, rather than AVCHD, but this is still a highly compatible format for editing.

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The design of the Camileo X-Sports looks very similar to the GoPro Hero3, and it’s reasonably compact. The X-Sports weighs 94g, so it’s slightly heavier than the GoPro Hero3 and Sony HDR-AS15, but you probably won’t notice the extra weight when the X-Sports is mounted on your helmet.WIRED Low price and a lot of included swag. Cool functions, including slow-motion, time-lapse and motion-detect are unheard of in a budget camera. Several hardware perks, such as HDMI-out, a flip-out display, removable battery, zoom controls, LED light and a macro switch.

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But there aren’t any options to change shutter speed, iris, or focusing, and no more advanced scene modes. As we mentioned earlier, the lens is fixed, so there is no optical zoom available. There is a 4x digital zoom available, but even that only works when you’re not in 1080p mode, presumably because it requires surplus pixels on the sensor which aren’t available at this resolution. For similar reasons, the digital image stabilisation doesn’t work at 1080p, only when shooting at lower resolutions. Action cams are intended for use during extreme sports and they need to be attached to a huge range of items, from helmets to surfbords. Helpfully, Toshiba supplies a large collection of mounts in the box, including a Flat Clip Mount, Flat Adhesive Mount, Curved Adhesive Mount, Side Mount, Bike Mount, Vented Helmet Mount, Surfboard Mount and Tripod Mount. Build and handling The Camileo comes with a generous assortment of mounting options so that you can attach it to vented helmets, bikes and surfboards, as well as curved and flat surfaces. These mounts work with or without the waterproof case. Although it doesn’t have a built-in USB plug, relying on a cable instead, there is software on board. The Camileo Uploader app is very limited, offering just the ability to send your footage to YouTube, Facebook, Picasa and Twitvid. However, there’s also a CD included with Arcsoft Media Impression and Converter, plus a trial of MAGIX Video Deluxe, if you want to do something a bit more sophisticated with your video. The Toshiba Camileo X150 is also equipped with a swiveling LCD touch screen of large, high-resolution, USB port and HDMI interface. The internal memory is 128 MB and can be expanded with memory cards with SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards.

Connecting the camera to a smartphone via the built-in Wi-Fi system is easy. The camera's network is activated via the menu and shows up on your phone's available Wi-Fi connections list as Camileo X-SPORTS. Once a connection has been made the light on top of the camera flashes blue and Toshiba's Wi-Fi Connect app can then be used to control the camera and compose scenes on the phone screen. The S20 follows the trend of the last couple of years and provides built-in Internet connectivity. As soon as you plug the device into a PC via USB, you will be prompted to install the H.264 codec from the S20’s onboard memory, if it isn’t on your system already. The YouTube Direct software will then start up straight from device as well. However, its features are extremely limited, offering just the ability to input and save your YouTube login, and then upload your video as a public or private clip. You can’t even provide a YouTube category or tagging information. The X-Sports has a built-in Wi-Fi system to allow the camera to connect with a smartphone via Toshiba's Wi-Fi Connect app. This enables scenes to be composed on the phone screen and then shared. Helpfully, simultaneously captured lower resolution (WVGA) video is available for sharing, but transfer is still time consuming. If you want to edit footage from the S20, it’s recorded as AVIs and we found these compatible with all the software we tried. However, being H.264 performance is extremely slow, making editing a relatively laborious process with the 1080p footage. Toshiba supplies Video deluxe 15 Plus and Movie Edit Pro 15 Plus, both from MAGIX, in the box, but they’re just trial versions.

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But it is impossible to get past the iffy video and still-picture quality. If it could shoot good video, it would be a must-buy. Without it, the Camileo S30 is merely a toy. Thankfully, the X-Sports comes with a remote control, which has a wrist strap, or you can control the X-Sports with the Toshiba WiFi Connect app that’s available for iOS or Android devices. The app provides a useful live feed from the camera, but there is, predictably, some noticeable. You can also use the app to change the resolution and control the 10x digital zoom.

Our biggest concern is that moving subjects and camera angles resulted in a skewed image. This is a side effect of the way CMOS sensors capture each frame one line at a time (unlike CCDs, which capture the whole image simultaneously). As a result, the bottom of the frame is captured a fraction of a second later than the top, distorting the shape of moving subjects. It’s a problem that was slightly visible on all the HD cameras except Samsung’s VP-HMX20C, but here it was particularly bad. Still images shot with the 8-megapixel sensor were hit or miss. The fixed focus means you need to be several feet from whatever you're shooting (the macro mode didn't have any noticeable effect on still images, and anything close was totally out of focus), but as long as I could get my subject in focus, images looked good. They're not as good as a dedicated 8-megapixel digital camera would be, but they're serviceable in a pinch. Images can be shot at 3, 8, or 16 megapixels, but since the sensor is only an 8-megapixel CMOS sensor, 16-megapixel images aren't as high quality. The built-in flash was surprisingly bright, lighting up subjects in both still photos and video. Naturally, other manufacturers have been keen to get involved and Toshiba is one of the most recent to join the fray with its Camileo X-Sports. TIRED Touchscreen controls are wonky. Super sensitivity to light made for unwelcome lens flares and overexposed shots. HD video often appeared somewhat smudgy and less-than-crisp. Oversensitivity to movement made all but the stillest still pictures unusable. In our battery test, the Camileo lasted one hour and 32 minutes while recording video at 1080p/30fps, which matches Toshiba’s claimed battery life. The Li-ion battery is user-replaceable, so you can buy more and replace drained batteries in the field.

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First the controls: The touchscreen functions are somewhat "hard of feeling." They are only reluctantly responsive, and you often find yourself repeating an unheeded command. When you try to play a video on a TV, the controls stay onscreen and cover up a good portion of the top and bottom of the picture.

The top three icons let you toggle image stabilisation, change the recording format, and turn on the LED video light or Digital Light modes. The latter essentially ramps up the video gain, so you can see more detail and a brighter image in poor illumination. Along the bottom, the full menu provides access to these features again, but also some fun additional options.