Samsung HMX-H106

Pros: Lightweight, 64 GB SSD, touch screen LCD, up to 1080i recording capability

Cons: Doesn't look expensive, no external mic input, no earphone input, NO 24 FPS recording capability. Because of this I deducted 2 stars

Summary: I haven't fooled around with it enough yet to write an intelligible review as of yet. I just got it out of the box and took delivery today, so I will write a more in-depth review later. For the technically uninclined, this is GREAT, I consider myself a notch below a Prosumer therefore due to the lack of 24fps recording capability and an external microphone input I was very disappointed, if you need this, it's not the camera for you. Since this is a family camera, and the wife will also shoot the puppy I had to get something that we could both live with. If you don't have family considerations and you need a Prosumer camera go with the Canon which DOES have the 24 fps capability.

After playing with the camera a little bit, I discovered you can edit in the IntelliStudio to encode in 24fps...BUT, the IntelliStudio is very counter intuitive in my opinion, YES, it's a lot easier than Sony Vegas or other editing programs, I would put it on par w/ Windows Movie Maker plus a couple of more advantages, if Windows Movie Maker could edit mp4 file (I can't believe I'm saying this) I would rather use WMM!!! My rating still won't change...Once again I maintain this is a great camera for the family but if you do record at the highest resolution you better have the video card to support it for editing purposes...I am currently uploading videos I shoot to YouTube so you can see, www.youtube.com/hmxh106, hope this helps you guys out!!!

Updated on Aug 9, 2009

Playing with the camera some more after a month later, Im liking it more and more each day, despite the lack of Microphone input, if it had a Mic input it would be perfect but what can you do? Anyways, there are some built in effects that you can use while recording...

For example: You can have record in B/W, sepia, art, negative view, it looks kinda cool and the cool thing I like is the ability to shoot a picture while your'e recording, although it's only a 4 M Pixels.

There's also a Fade in/Fade Out effect,what I hate about this is that you have to set it everytime you push record. After my initial dissapointment and anger over a lack of a few features (mic input, pause capability during recording, 24fps recording capability, but you can edit it)...

If you want to see what some of this camera can do, I upload videos unedited, straight from the camera on Youtube, http://www.youtube.com/hmxh106

Updated on Feb 4, 2011

Once again, the lack of an external mic input is getting me bent out of shape. It picks up every little noise sometimes downing out the person in front of the camera's voice! Another thing that upsets me is that it records at 60/fps and there's nothing I can do to change that. I know it can't record 24fps but I wish the default was 30fps, not 60fps, because I have to edit the H264 to avi or wmv file so I can edit on Sony Vegas. Now that I migrated to the Mac, it also lacks Mac support (software drivers) so I have to connect to the PC and then store it on my External HD and extract the video from there.