{"id":1576,"date":"2010-08-04T09:53:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2010-08-04T09:53:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T13:53:06","slug":"panasonic-set-to-release-a-flip-camera-competitor-the-hm-ta1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/04\/panasonic-set-to-release-a-flip-camera-competitor-the-hm-ta1\/","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic Set To Release a Flip Camera Competitor, The HM-TA1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Flip-style camera market is about to get more competition as Panasonic has announced their new pocket-camera, the HM-TA1. \u00a0Panasonic has always been highly-regarded for professional video cameras, but this is their first foray into the Flip world. \u00a0The HM-TA1 will also serve double-duty as a web cam, so you can use it to shoot both HD video and for Skype or other video chats.<\/p>\n<p>Spec-wise the Panasonic HM-TA1 shoots full HD video at 1920&#215;1080 and 1280&#215;720 or SD video at 640&#215;480. \u00a0The highest bit rate it records is 12mbps, or about half the quality on higher-end AVCHD cameras. \u00a0It records to both MP4 and iFrame, the later being for Mac users. \u00a0No external microphone jack is mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>The camera also shoot 8 megapixel still photos (5 million effective pixels) and you have the ability to grab a still photo from any of your video footage. \u00a0Also included is a built-in LED light for darker shots you come across&#8230;but the LED light does not work when the camera is in web cam mode.<\/p>\n<p>The camera is set to be available at the end of August for a price of $169.95. \u00a0More info is available on Panasonic&#8217;s web site <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.panasonic.com\/consumer-electronics\/shop\/Cameras-Camcorders\/Camcorders\/Shoot-Share-Camcorders\/model.HM-TA1R_11002_7000000000000005702\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flip-style camera market is about to get more competition as Panasonic has announced their new pocket-camera, the HM-TA1. \u00a0Panasonic has always been highly-regarded for professional video cameras, but this is their first foray into the Flip world. \u00a0The HM-TA1 will also serve double-duty as a web cam, so you can use it to shoot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[636,635,634],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}