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The new Xacti VPC-HD2000 is the first consumer Full HD camcorder to offer 60 progressive frames per second shooting..
Instead of using the traditional handycam or palmcorder formats, Xacti used a pistol handgrip and protruding lens. The VPC-HD2000 continues in this vein, and doesn't look physically that different to the VPC-HD1000 (it records to SD/SDHC memory cards too). But what's inside has been significantly upgraded.
The imaging sensor is a large 1/2.5in CMOS, this now has a 8.1-megapixel resolution, twice that of the previous generation. This have a benefit for video shooting, as 2.08-megapixels are all you need for Full HD, and the HD1000 already shot at 1,920 x 1,080. The biggest upside to this high-res sensor is that you can now take digital photos natively at 3,264 x 2,448, and Sanyo throws in interpolation as well to provide the option for 12-megapixel stills at 4,000 x 3,000. To draw attention to these compact-busting digital photography capabilities, We call it the VPC-HD2000 a Dual Camera, implying that this model is as comfortable in either camp.
HD2000 has a 16x Advanced Zoom, where the HD1000 only offered 10x optical zoom. However, Advanced Zoom isn't quite the same as Optical Zoom. When shooting video, the camcorder is using more pixels on its CMOS than it needs for 1,920 x 1,080, so it can safely zoom in on a portion of the sensor without losing resolution, this is a unique feature.
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