Ryanne July 10th, 2007

The newest Sanyo Xacti E1 just came out and boy is it shiny! The E1 is waterproof and rugged, has a nice big screen and to top it off, the audio and video quality is the best that I’ve seen from the Xacti series so far. Check out the video for example clips- I bumped my compression up a bit so you could see close to original quality in this video. Also, here is a link to an original file if you want to play with it in your editing software (right click or ctrl click and save link as): SANY0011.MP4. The E1 still uses the MPEG-4 format, but the codec has changed to h.264. I think that has made a huge difference in the quality of the image. Thanks to Tajee from Voice Bank for letting us play with this camera! If you’re looking to upgrade, I would highly recommend this camera, even over the Xacti HD series, whose audio is crummy compared to the E1 (though the E1 does not shoot in HD or in 16:9 widescreen like the HD series). Check out the E1 in the Freevlog Store if you’re ready to take the plunge!

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