But there aren’t any options to change shutter speed, iris, or focusing, and no more advanced scene modes. As we mentioned earlier, the lens is fixed, so there is no optical zoom available. There is a 4x digital zoom available, but even that only works when you’re not in 1080p mode, presumably because it requires surplus pixels on the sensor which aren’t available at this resolution. For similar reasons, the digital image stabilisation doesn’t work at 1080p, only when shooting at lower resolutions. The 'red eye' phenomenon is caused by too much light in too little time getting to eyes of the people in the picture. This effect is even stronger in a dark atmosphere. The following can be done to prevent it: don't let people look directly into the camera, create more light, take the picture closer to the subject or decrease the use of the zoom function. The X-Sports’ rectangular design is simple and the camera looks tiny when it’s taken out of its tough case, which is waterproof up to a depth of 60m. As the camera isn’t waterproof or rugged you’ll want to make sure it’s kept in the case whenever it’s in use. Annoyingly, though, we found the X-Sports’ buttons difficult to operate when it’s in the case, and required a firm and forceful press for something to happen. For comparison, I held a Flip HD right next to the Toshiba Camileo and shot the same scene with both cameras at the same time.

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The X-Sports’ menu provides you with the usual array of video options, and you can choose to shoot Full HD video at up to 60fps. If you reduce the resolution to 720p you can even shoot at 120fps, which is useful for creating slow-motion videos. The menu is easy to enough to use, considering the limited amount of buttons, and we had no trouble seeing it outdoors in daylight.

But that's where the good stuff ends. Toshiba's camera is hampered by clumsy controls and smudgy picture quality. Buried in the chaos are plenty of options and settings. A motion-sensing option will start recording video whenever it senses motion. There's a slow-motion mode for catching fast action, a time-lapse mode, a number of art filters for photos and video, and more. There are a lot of granular controls available as well—white balance, resolution, ISO, scene modes, and more can all be tweaked—but the interface is so complicated many of the options are hard to use. Make no mistake: This isn't a simple Flip-like user experience. Although it doesn’t have a built-in USB plug, relying on a cable instead, there is software on board. The Camileo Uploader app is very limited, offering just the ability to send your footage to YouTube, Facebook, Picasa and Twitvid. However, there’s also a CD included with Arcsoft Media Impression and Converter, plus a trial of MAGIX Video Deluxe, if you want to do something a bit more sophisticated with your video. The X-Sports has a built-in Wi-Fi system to allow the camera to connect with a smartphone via Toshiba's Wi-Fi Connect app. This enables scenes to be composed on the phone screen and then shared. Helpfully, simultaneously captured lower resolution (WVGA) video is available for sharing, but transfer is still time consuming. For editing, a regular USB 2.0 connection is provided to drag clips onto your PC. Since the Camileo records its MPEG-4 H.264 video in MP4 format, however, rather than AVCHD, the footage is not as widely supported in editing applications. CyberLink’s PowerDirector 7 had no trouble coping with it, but neither Pinnacle’s Studio Plus 11.1.2 nor Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 could import the files. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 thought the MP4 files only contained audio. Toshiba includes Nero 8 Essentials, however, which can at least burn footage to disc.

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You can review footage on the Camileo X-Sports’ 2in LCD display, which has a resolution of 320×240 pixels. It isn’t a particularly good display due to its low resolution and poor brightness, even on its highest setting, but it’s still good to have, especially when many other action cameras don’t have a display at all.Thankfully, the X-Sports comes with a remote control, which has a wrist strap, or you can control the X-Sports with the Toshiba WiFi Connect app that’s available for iOS or Android devices. The app provides a useful live feed from the camera, but there is, predictably, some noticeable. You can also use the app to change the resolution and control the 10x digital zoom.

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If you want to edit footage from the S20, it’s recorded as AVIs and we found these compatible with all the software we tried. However, being H.264 performance is extremely slow, making editing a relatively laborious process with the 1080p footage. Toshiba supplies Video deluxe 15 Plus and Movie Edit Pro 15 Plus, both from MAGIX, in the box, but they’re just trial versions. Footage is captured to SDXC memory card, although there is a X416 variant available in some parts of the world which comes with 16GB of memory on board. A 16GB allocation will be enough for around four hours of footage at the top quality setting. The format used is MP4, rather than AVCHD, but this is still a highly compatible format for editing. The lens is also fixed, as before, with just a macro switch on the top adjusting the physical lens configuration for close-up shooting. So both the zoom and image stabilisation are digital. However, you can now use both even when shooting Full HD, unlike with the S20, and the digital zoom has been boosted considerably to 16x, although resolution still suffers considerably when the zoom is called upon, and image stabilisation crops into the frame slightly too. Our biggest concern is that moving subjects and camera angles resulted in a skewed image. This is a side effect of the way CMOS sensors capture each frame one line at a time (unlike CCDs, which capture the whole image simultaneously). As a result, the bottom of the frame is captured a fraction of a second later than the top, distorting the shape of moving subjects. It’s a problem that was slightly visible on all the HD cameras except Samsung’s VP-HMX20C, but here it was particularly bad.The Camileo had some obvious difficulty with video in bright sunlight. Notice the image distortion and artifacts. The camera was also prone to blowouts. Although the Camileo is likely to be used mostly for shooting videos, it can also shoot 12Mp stills. In Photo mode it takes photographs on demand, but in Photo Burst mode it will take shots at a rate of 3, 5, 10 or 30 per second after the record button is pressed. It's possible to shoot at 30fps for 1, 2 or 3 seconds, but image size drops to 5Mp.

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On the surface, this camera looks like a great deal. It has a pistol form factor and a relatively large, 3-inch flip-out touchscreen. With excellent image stabilisation built in, it isn't a victim of the shake associated with many models.

Naturally, other manufacturers have been keen to get involved and Toshiba is one of the most recent to join the fray with its Camileo X-Sports. The Camileo comes with a generous assortment of mounting options so that you can attach it to vented helmets, bikes and surfboards, as well as curved and flat surfaces. These mounts work with or without the waterproof case.