My last camera was a Nikon Coolpix S7c, great camera with a huge screen and takes great pictures. Whilst I was on Holiday in Phuket earlier this year I took a few video clips and whilst the quality was OK the sound was awful. It was time for an upgrade, so I decided on a Sanyo Xacti CG65.

I had been looking at the Sanyo Xacti range for years, the downside was always that I don’t want to sacrifice quality on still images, and with movies the capacity of SD cards was an issue until recently.

The Xacti uses SDHC cards, and it just so happens that I have a 8gb SDHC that I bought on eBay recently, this allows me 5 hours and 40 mins of video in the high quality TV mode, and a lot more in web mode.

Image quality for both video and stills is amazing, especially indoors where I really did not expect it to perform well. It has the ability to snap a still whist making a video, this is more useful than it sounds.

It’s too early to say what battery life will be like, but it’s looking good so far.

Connecting this to a computer is a snap, on my computers itunes opens up and offers to import the movies and stills, on computers without itunes it’s still easy as it can connects in card reader mode, or of course if you have a SDHC card reader in your computer you can just pop the card in.

I wont go into the technical specs because you can read that anywhere, and my opinion on specs is that they don’t mean anything when it comes to cameras, the proof is all in the images and videos.

Buy one, you wont be disapponted! In Thailand these are 9,900 Baht (140 UK pounds, 280 USD)

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