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body is being held,” whether the user is left- or right-handed, “shooting in difficult positions or combining recording film with other activities,” it said. “No matter how the camcorder is held, the G-magnetic sensor inside the HMX-Q10 recognizes the angle and turns the LCD display so it’s easy to see, and controls recording easily from any angle,” it explained. The HMX-Q10’s body was also “streamlined and made more compact so it can easily be carried anywhere,” Samsung said. The camcorder saves data on SD and SDHC memory cards, and features a 2.7-inch wide touch-panel LCD, shoots HD video at 1920 x 1080i 60 Hz or 1280 x 720p 60 Hz, and offers 4.9-megapixel still images, it said. A similar Samsung HD camcorder last year, the H200, cost $399.99 without Switch Grip, a company spokeswoman said. The new model also features a BSI CMOS sensor that Samsung said “records with twice the sensitivity of normal CMOS sensors, dramatically reducing noise and distortion while also enhancing recording quality in low-light conditions.” The HMX-Q10 also features an upgraded version of Samsung’s Smart Auto scene recognition technology that it said “analyzes key elements of the composition of the footage such as brightness, motion, color and subject and then selects the most appropriate settings to produce the best results possible.” Samsung also incorporated Record Pause technology that it said allows users to take brief pauses in filming before re-starting, “so they don’t need to merge files when finished.”