Toshiba Camileo SX500 & SX900 Camcorders Outed

Toshiba have announced a pair of new, Full HD camcorders, the Camileo SX500 and SX900, each recording in 1920 x 1080 30p/60i to SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards up to 64GB in size. The barrel-format cameras – which can also grab 10- and 14-megapixel stills respectively – each have electronic image stabilization together with face and color tracking.

The SX500 gets a 5x optical zoom (12x digital) while the SX900 bumps that up to a 9x optical zoom (12x digital); they’re also capable of shooting in 4 lux and 3 lux lighting, respectively. We grabbed some hands-on time with the two new models this week, and while we’d have liked to have seen some extra onboard storage – there’s just 118MB internally, and that’s locked off as soon as you slot in a memory card – they’re light, have menu systems that are reasonably straightforward to navigate, and decent-sized 2.7-inch LCD preview displays.

The Camileo SX900 and SX500 will go on sale come July 2010.