Pretty much the only segment of the camcorder market that hasn’t been destroyed by either cellphones or video-shooting SLRs is the rugged sports-cam market, if only because nobody wants to strap their iPhone or Canon 5D MkIII to their head and ski down a mountain.
So it’s no surprise that JVC’s latest offering is – you guessed it – a rugged sports cam, complete with various attachment to mount it on helmets, bikes and even goggles.
It’s called – somewhat embarrassingly – the Adixxion, spelled in all caps, and it is indeed rugged. You can freeze it and use it in a dust storm and it won’t care. You can dive to five meters (16.4 feet) underwater, drop it up to two meters (6.5 feet) without breaking it, and all the while shoot HD video or 5MP stills.
An LED on the side is there for playback, but the real killer feature is Wi-Fi.
Using the Wi-Fi radio you can monitor the video using your phone, which is very handy to check framing when the camera is stuck up on your head. Which makes me wonder if Wi-Fi works underwater?
The $350 Adixxion doesn’t skimp on the accessories either: It comes with a “flexible” mount and a goggle mount in the box, and if you need anything more specialized you can buy it seperately.
The Adixxion is available now.
Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/176391/jvc-adixxion-the-worst-named-rugged-camcorder-ever/#xMyaUg8UiurmOiYD.99
JVC’s GC-XA1 ADIXXION Can Capture Your Action Video
The GC-XA1 from JVC eliminates accessories and seeks to be operable right away, no other attachments to buy. This may not sound extraordinary, but consider the advancements that other sportcams have made recently, and accessories quickly come to mind. The GC-XA1 ADIXXION comes with many of the features that have only been made available via accessory, until now.
Take the LCD screen, Wi-Fi connection and make it all water, shock and dust proof and you’ve cleaned off at least one or two attachments or housings. All this aside, what kind of video capability does the GC-XA1 have? It’s likely that 1920×1080 at 30p and 1280×720 at 60p will suffice. As for included mounting options, there is a both a flexible and goggle mount.
The shape of this action cam is encased by scratch resistant rubber and looks like an item you’d pick up in a video game. It is black, a rectangular prism with small triangles removed from each edge. Along the top are the power and record buttons, then on the left and right sides are the 1.5-inch LCD monitor and standard 1/4-inch mount – in case you wanted to do something “standard” with this camera!
JVC put even more thought into this camera by paying attention to rolling shutter and reducing blurred images that can easily occur with high motion subjects. Ultimately you’ll have a wide angle view of the action and relative ease to view your video with an HDMI mini output. The fact that this five-megapixel camera has image stabilization, manual white balance, an SD card slot and can take stills should be noted and accounted for. At the end of the day, it’s not brand new technology , but it is housed in a new and different way, so isn’t that like many great innovations in life? The bottom line is, the JVC GC-XA1 ($350, available late this summer) is an instant competitor in the world of action sports videography
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