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"I-Pod of consumer cameras" on by memograph
Pros: Great design, no tape, HD in a budget. 3 ccd, small
Cons: No extended battery, no web cam.
Summary: I am a veteran videojournalist, used many professional and pro-sumer cameras. I bought this in the summer of 07 and I use it for vacation and family videos. It has a very sexy design. I do not agree with c/net about the small size hurting your hand in long shoots. If holding a bear can hurts your hand so will this. Not having a tape head is a plus tape heads can get dirty, this is no longer an issue. Manual controls are on a joy stick control and it is much easier to access than the previous consumer cameras I have owned. This is a great camera. AVCHD is much better than HDV to edit on my final cut pro.
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"Great Video" on by scott.cropper-2045595817941659
Pros: Zoom, Compact Size, SD Card, Lens, Accessories, Takes Good Photos
Cons: Takes some adjustment to use depending on hand size
Summary: We got this camera at work to take and edit video of various projects. Its simple to use, records excellent video and takes good photos. We use iMovie on a MacBook Pro to import and edit the clips right off the SD Card.
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"Its Good but not what I wanted" on by victorcy
Pros: very clear movie, bonus stereo mic jack, great pictures with still image camera.
Cons: it only supported 4gb, zoom mic cant used at far distance, all input jack like mic is at wrong place.
Summary: I bought this camera thinking I would be able to take more than 45 minutes but only in economy mode that I got to that. With church sermon in mind, this is off the high mark. I have to reduce this to low resolution to get the continuous uninterrupted movie shot. If I reach 4 gig even thought I have 8 gig of memory card, the movie shot stops. It does not give you any warning or noise or tell you it stops. The annoying part is I took only half the sermon and have to re-press the record button to start a new again. Its a nice video camera and since spending so much I have find ways of making it work for the purpose of buying it. Try using a wired microphone jack to the mixer of the church to get a good voice from the speaker and it seems to work very well. Bought a wireless microphone and will try this next week. The worse part is all the jack is build very bottom where my tripod pad rested on. So it it so difficult to pull out the cover of the various jack. Especially the mic jack and the power jack which I use most of the time.
I really need a powerful PC to run this power hungry file which I used Videostudio to convert to wmv files to upload to the net. The PC I used are semi powerful so Videostudio takes a long time to render and even when playing back using Videostudio is crawling. I hoping to get a powerful PC to make sure can render this power hungry file.
I did however tired to used the Japanese version of the software provided but fail to understand Japanese, so I am buying a English version and hope it will work much better.
My hard drive is full of video up to about 12gig each file. So if you intend to used this as a HD, then you need to have a big amount of space. Which is now very cheap.
The still image of this camera although I know is on about 2.1meg pixel but it does a great job. The optical zoom is very very good too.
I am looking at buying a HDD HD video camera with wireless mic and the only option is Sony.
Overall HDC-SD1 give me a good experience and also cost me mega bucks but well it is an experience I have to pay to find out. Might sell this and buy me a Sony instead.Updated
The one thing I am dissapointed is the limit to the timing I can shot the video. Although I have 8 gig SDHC, I found that I only can shot up to 4 gig and I have to repress the record button to shot for it to continue. So I have two clips instead of one long one. I was hoping I could capture this on my laptop but no, it only allow import of files once it transfer to the Pc.
I was hoping it does one step better with the zoom mic but it hardly capture the voice of the Pastor I am shoting at 20 to 30 metres. I now regret buying it as I was looking at JVC with hard drive and read with dismay at the bad part of it.
In conclusion I am cheated of my dream of a nice HD video with nice audio capture. Sad I miss it all.
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