A selfie can get you in trouble but only if you are in a funeral. The increasing trend of people taking selfies (if you don’t know what a selfie is, search the dictionary, it is now an official English word) on their smart phones has not gone unnoticed by the camera makers.
Keeping this in mind, Panasonic has come up with the W850 selfie camcorder. It actually is a set of two camcorders, one in the front, and one in rear.
The W850 doesn’t allow you to alternate between the two cameras, largely missing the point. One area where the W850 actually beats other camcorders is the presence of four lens groups as opposed to the traditional two lens groups. These extra zoom groups enable 50x zoom. The slow motion video recording, without breaks, works great.
Camcorders are not the only offering of Panasonic this CES season. The company also unveiled the £399 compact camera TZ60. Sporting a 3-inch screen, this model doesn’t improve the picture quality over the present Panasonic TZ40 but it is more power efficient and offers a better zoom of 30x (over the 20x offered by TZ40). There is the minor benefit of some 16 odd extra filter effects. The auto focus is faster than before and the in-built GPS and Wi-Fi eliminate the necessity of a GPS dongle. Panasonic surely offered a couple of great improvements but it can’t be said to have met all the expectations!
Selfie Panasonic W850 camcorder revealed with compact camera
