Video Cameras

DJI has a new gimbal-equipped camera on sale in time for the holiday season. The Osmo Pocket is compact (as its name suggests), lightweight, and capable of shooting 4K video at up to 60 frames-per-second, with barely a hint of camera shake in sight.

Back in January, UK smart home company Hive teamed up with designer Yves Béhar to create a boxy security camera called the View that kept watch indoors. Now the collaboration has announced an outdoor version.

​In order to utilize a traditional actioncam to its fullest, people may make use of things like handlebar mounts, selfie sticks and bendy-legged mini tripods. Oppy is intended to make such accessories unnecessary, as it features a long flexible body.

​Actioncammers, take note – GoPro has just announced its latest flagship model, the Hero7 Black. According to the company, the camera's new HyperSmooth feature offers the sort of video stabilization that ordinarily requires a separate motorized gimbal.

The Vuze XR camera from HumanEyes Technologies not only allows social media sharers, life loggers and travelers to capture memories in all-around 360° goodness, but can also transform into a 3D camera at the touch of a button.​

Back when GoPro was first making its name in the actioncam game, one of its main competitors was Britain's Drift Innovation. Now, the company is set to release its latest offering, the budget-friendly and long-running Ghost X.

​If you shoot a lot of handheld video of extreme outdoor activities, then it's possible that you use a motorized camera-stabilizing gimbal. Such devices, however, typically don't offer much protection to the camera – or to themselves. That's why the enclosed-design Arculus Onyx was created.

While it is possible for video bloggers to do multi-camera productions, they pretty much have to record everything with every camera, then go back and edit between them. The Cutbox Studio system, however, allows users to cut live between three included cameras.

Back in 2014, Canon stunned pro videographers with an absolute monster of a lens. The Cine-Servo put top-grade glass behind camcorder-like controls to offer unprecedented flexibility. And it only came to be after a wildlife videographer laid down a challenge.

​Back in early 2013, Blackmagic announced a compact Super 16 video camera for movie-makers on a budget. The company says that customers have been asking for a higher resolution version ever since, and has again chosen the NAB show in Las Vegas to launch the 2018 Pocket Cinema Camera 4K.​

​With more and more people getting into video blogging, it's only natural that we should be seeing an increasing number of cameras designed specifically for vlogging. One of the latest and perhaps best-equipped, the Idolcam will soon be the subject of a Kickstarter campaign.

Are stethoscopes on their way to becoming obsolete? It's possible, as scientists from Utah State University have developed a no-contact method of measuring a person's heartbeat utilizing a video camera and custom software.