Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)I got this camcorder for about two weeks already. It's very easy to start operating it even without reading the manual. The touch screen feature is great! You can basically play on the touch screen and see the difference of the picture quality right on the screen. Here's some of the Pro & Con that I think after playing with this camcorder.
Pro:
-Easy to use
-Great video quality (I hook on my Sony 48 inches 1080p LCD screen, the picture looks great!)
-Picture quality is great too if you got enough light when using indoor (outdoor, no problem)
-Indoor video recording is pretty good using backlight function if indoor light is not enough.
-Outdoor video quality is excellent
-Digital zooming is great (I can basically zoom in and get so detail that I can see the pore of the person's face right across of the street with 3 traffic lane in between it.)
-LCD touch screen is great (you can flip the screen too! You can also use fingernail to touch the screen if your fingertip is too big, the screen don't have any problem recognizing your command.)
Con:
-Not enough battery life (got around 90minutes of recording, good thing is that you can see how much time you got left on the LCD screen for recording so you'll know when you need to charge the battery or switch to power cord or new battery.)
-You cannot charge the battery while using power cord!
-The power cord plug on the camcorder is hidden underneath where you put the battery at, so you cannot use both battery and power cord at the same time (very bad when you try to record using power cord, once you accidentally pull the power cord plug, all of the recording stops, and it takes long time for camcorder to get back to recording and it also causes temporary hard drive malfunction while the camcorder trying to recover what you just record.)
-You cannot turn on the light that came with the camcorder to do the recording (it's use mostly as flash function when taking picture)
So far that's what I thought playing for two weeks (without reading the manual.)
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12x optical zoom 30x-700x digital zoom3MOS produces extremely accurate images with superb rendition of light and rich color expressionsiA (Intelligent Auto) for smart control automatically chooses the optimal camera settings and activates correct functionsAdvanced O.I.S. suppresses hand-shake by adjusting the optical axis at 4000k per second2.7" wide LCD monitor1920 x 1080 full HD recording resolution5.1-channel DolbyDigital audio recording with zoom and focus microphoneStill image resolution up to 3984 x 2656 (10.6MP)Mini HDMI video component and 2.0 hi-speed USB outputs2 3/4'' W x 2 7/8'' H x 5 1/16'' DIncludes Li-Ion rechargeable battery AC adapter video component/AV/USB cables IR remote control and software
