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"GOOD CAMERA" on by EARNESTCOOKE
Pros: GREAT SHOTS
Cons: MALFUNCTIONS WHEN USING TRIPOD
Summary: Last August-05 I purchased the SC-D6550 DUOCAM, for a vaction my wife and I was going on to Hawaii, the camera performed beautifully, the pictures captured was beyond anything I expected. I used the camera several times more, and then my daughter's classmate's birthday came up in Dec.-05, and I was asked if I would record it for them, I was happy to do so. I film the party for an Hour and one-half, using my tripod, brought it home, and to my dismay on the playback it was nothing but lines running across, I thought perhaps the heads were dirty, and purchased a tapehead cleaner, that did not clear up the problem, so I took it back to Circuit City, because I did purchase the protection plan for the camera, they sent it out, and when it came back they said there was no problem with the camera, I took it back home, took some more movies, handheld no problem, to make a long story short, the camera went back and forth to the repair shop, because when I hand held it it worked fine, when I places it a tripod the camera malfuntioned. the problem is there are no other cameras available to see if this was just happening with my camera, or was this some kind of design flaw that was realized with this camera model, and thats why it was quietly removed from production. and now I have a camera that I do enjoy and have invested a lot of money on accessories, but can never use it with a tripod. Just today I went back to the store, because I had just deducted what was going on, we tried all kind of tripods, if we took the camera off the tripod it worked fine, as soon as we placed it on, before we could secure it the camera began to malfuntion, should send this camera back to Samsung
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"Two in one camera is appealing , but better to get 2 cameras for better quality" on by jkhiggin
Pros: 2 Cameras in one. Small design for having 2 cameras. Sound quality was good on video.
Cons: Really bad focus on the Video Camera. Lacks a center crosshair in video mode. Slow to snap still shots.
Summary: I expected alot more out of this camera. A two in one design sounded good and even though there were bad/ok reviews out there I thought I would give it a shot.
The idea is great. A 5MP digital camera mixed with a true video camera. It is convinent to switch to one mode and the other. We went to an airshow and I was able to easially switch back and forth, but the time it takes to do this kinda out weighs its benefits. The camera has to shut down then lens cap off video camera or vice versa.
I was also disappointed in the focus of the movie camera. As I am shooting (again no center crosshair to focus on), the shots get blurry then come back in focus. I read a couple of other reviews that mentions this so I think its just a bad video camera.
The still digital part does ok. We did have a few shots that were fuzzy and if you need to snap something fast then this is not the camera. I managed to get a few good shots of the jets, but alot of shots were missed because of the focus and picture snap times.
Also there are 2 different buttons for taking a picture and recording. A couple of times as I am doing a video after taking pictures I hit the photo taking button, which takes about a 5 second still of what you are looking at on video. You do this and you get a bad looking still shot.
The thumb button for turning on the video recording was hard for me to reach. Maybe its just me but my thumb had problems hitting the video record. If they had kept the picture and video record to be the same then maybe it would have been better.
Overall I would definately stay away from this camera. Yes its a great idea that falls flat.
Samsung SC-D6550 DuoCam Camcorder user reviews
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