A few days ago Sanyo sent us their latest Xacti CA100. Similar in design to their previous pistol-grip style cameras the CA100 offers 1080P video recording and is waterproof to a depth of 3m. This is a good improvement over earlier waterproof models, such as the CA9, which were limited to 720P and waterproof to [...]

Over the past few years we’ve looked almost all of the HD camcorders in Sanyo’s XACTI range. In fact we quite like the Xacti camcorders as they record decent quality HD footage in MP4 format on SD memory cards which makes it easy to transfer to the PC or Mac for editing. Most of the [...]

The FH1 is at the top end of the Xacti range offering the best recording modes, 1080p/1080i/720p, as well as having a 16x optical zoom and 8 megapixel sensor. I’m expecting good things from the FH1! -Matt

We’ve unboxed several other Sanyo Xacti camcorders and this is the latest HD2000.  Looking the same externally as its predecessors, the HD1000 and HD1010, the new HD2000 offers some marked improvements. The CMOS sensor has been upped to a 8.1 megapixel chip and the zoom has increased from 10x to 16x optical. The biggest difference [...]

The Sanyo Xacti HD700 is the 4th camcorder from our group test and the one we liked best! The HD700, as its name suggests, records video in HD (720P) on a SDHC memory card. One of the nice things about the Xacti range is that you can capture still photos even while recording video footage [...]