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4.5 stars
"Panasonic Gets Short Shrift Again!"
Pros: Compact, Easy to use, quality video and stills, good selection of manual settings, no moving parts, SD card storage
Cons: Odd mpeg filed extension
Summary: CNET provides what appears to be a curt and mis-guided review of the SDR-150. "Interlacing" problems? That's a display issue, not a capture issue. Check your monitor!
I've had my SDR-150 for several months and have capture scenic vistas and sports activities: still and video. For a camcorder that is smaller and weighs less than my old Canon A-70 digital camera; the SDR-150 delivers it all, 10x optical zoom, optical image stabalization (that works) all straight on to small SD Cards (no tapes, no dvds).
The battery life issues reported by CNET are also a mystery. I took about 45 minutes of on-again/off-again video on a full round of golf and still had about half my battery remaining. (I think CNET needs to vet it's review.)
On the highest setting, the video looks really terrific even projected on to a 100-inch screen off of an Epson Homelight 10+ projector (native HD wide-screen format). The video looks even better on a smaller DLP and tube TVs (quality of display has massive effect, naturally -- All full-screen video play-back on windows systems looks crappy. What's new?) Colors are full and true, play-back is clean.
If you're wearing your comfortable travel-khakis or shorts, the SDR-150 will fit into
your pants pockets, and it's so light, you won't even notice it's there. With the auto-closing lens cover, you don't have to worry about dust, scratches, or pulling a cap on and off between use. Just close down the LCD display (which is beautiful) and it goes into stand-by mode.
If you're looking for a compact camcorder that is a no-brainer about bringing along,
and a digital camera that can actually zoom up to your subject matter, pick up the SDR-150, and an 8gb SD card (which will provide ~2 hours of highest quality video), and you're all set.
The only down side is that video files are provided with a .mod file extension despite their true mpeg format. With current windows media players high-jacking the files on import to your pc, you actually have to bring open the files in windows media player and rename each file with a .mpeg file extension through "SaveMediaAs" to be able to play and manipulate the files in applications other then windows media player or the software panasonic ships.
Enjoy!
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Panasonic SDR-S150:
$649.88
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