Camcorder

Sony announced a new addition to it RX camera line at IFA 2017 in Berlin earlier today. The 15 MP RX0 sports a wide-angle Zeiss lens, rugged compact body and sits somewhere between an actioncam and a tough compact, with Sony reckoning that this is the shape of cameras to come.

​​Although GoPro may have already announced its intention to do so, Garmin has beaten it to the punch by releasing a 360-degree spherical actioncam of its own. Called the VIRB 360, it shoots footage at a resolution of 5.7K/30fps, automatically stitching it together into a 4K/30fps interactive video.

Sony’s latest action cameras are aimed at cutting the wobbles from your extreme footage with new image stabilization technology. The 4K-shooting X3000 and the Full HD AS300 each use Sony’s Balanced Optical SteadyShot, which moves the camera's lens and sensor together to compensate for camera shake.​

The Panasonic HC-X1 is a 4K camcorder for professional videographers who don’t want to keep using a wide conversion lens. The handheld shooter features an extremely wide 24mm 20x optical zoom lens.

The JVC Everio GZ-R450 and GZ-R320 are a pair of new rugged camcorders which are dust-proof, water-proof, drop-proof and freeze-proof. The duo also feature 40x optical zoom lenses and 3-inch touchscreens.

The TomTom Bandit is a new sensor-packed action camera which aims to make editing and sharing action videos easier thanks to a built-in media server, automatic tagging of action-packed moments, and a "shake to edit" function.

The Garmin Virb X and XE are a pair of action cameras which use built-in and external sensors to track action taking place during a recording. This data can then be displayed in the resulting footage to show things like exactly how fast you were hurtling down that mountain on your bike.

The HX-A1 is the latest action camera from Panasonic. The diminutive but tough HD camera is designed for shooting point-of-view footage and is waterproof to 1.5 m (5 ft) without the need for an external housing.

As wearable cameras get smaller and more powerful, so their potential increases, and a new deal that GoPro has inked with the NHL is proof of that. Some of the players in the 2015 All-Stars Skills Competition were kitted out with head-mounted cameras to provide a unique angle on the play.

Zoom North America has revealed a new addition to its HD videocam range at this year's NAMM Show in California. As well as being capable of recording video at higher-than-HD resolution, the Q8 also boasts the modular microphone capsule system first seen in the H6 audio recorder.

If you need a further indication that 1080p is on its way to becoming the standard second-highest resolution for consumer video cameras, here you go – at CES 2015 this week, Sony is introducing a 4K version of its Action Cam. The company has also unveiled its smallest 4K Handycam to date.

A couple of years ago, we first heard about the SoloShot. It's a robotic device that sits between a video camera and a tripod, automatically panning the camera to keep the subject centered in the shot. The SoloShot2 takes things a step further, most notably by also tilting the camera.