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Review summary: Is this the coolest camcorder ever?

Pros: Lightweight, compact, very stylish design; Neat and clear, rotating LCD

Cons: Fiddly navigator; Slow focusing

Verdict: This takes decent, if not outstanding, movies and photos, but its compact size and swish design make it stand out from the pack.

Review summary: It's a great little gadget for spontaneous snapping when your SLR is packed away

Pros: Produces rich and detailed stills, Video is smooth and stable

Cons: Puny microphone

Verdict: Flash modes are simply Auto On or suppressed: there's no Red Eye mode, since Sanyo gives you the opportunity to edit out dreaded red eyes in post production using an in-camera editing tool. Happily, we never found red-eye to be an issue

Review summary: One of the strangest devices we've seen in a long time, the Xacti VPC-C6E looks like a Dictaphone that's been cross-bred with a camcorder.

Verdict: Despite some slight grumbles about the design and video recording quality, there is much to like here, including a generous software bundle, image stabilisation and easy one-handed use. The Sanyo Xacti VPC-C6E is certainly different, but that's not ...

Review summary: Sanyo's Xacti VPC-C6 marries video and still image taking in a small, stylish shell. It's got the looks - does it have the ability to match?

Verdict: The Sanyo Xacti VPC-C6 is great looking toy for the gadget lover; well made, well designed and easy to use, as well as being a very capable video camera in its own right. It is unfortunately let down by still image quality that doesn't match up to the ...