Samsung SC-D382

this is a good buy overall, but I would still like to see some features. I wish there was a memory card for the camera option. Without it this features is worthless. You have 2 options for recording: Easy-Q or Normal. In normal mode you have to flip through menu after menu to do the most basic thing (light changes, Focus toggles, etc), so making changes while recording is all but impossible. In Easy mode it will adjust to the "best" image (often incorrect) but you can't even access the menus while in easy mode. For home videos this camera is great, but it does lack the quality of $500 camcorders. The lens cap is manually removed and that gets annoying, but is not a deal breaker. You can buy this for $150-200 and you have to take that into account. for the price you are getting a great little camera. If you are picky then you need to spend $500+

Bought this hoping the focusing on it could pan in on small text and have the text come in clearly. That works great. My two big concerns are a poor battery life and washed out video. For instance, if I were to point the camera at something that is red, it would look somewhat like a faded red-orange. Not very impressive. The battery life is also horrendous. It just doesn't last as long as it should. I still use this, but rarely.

I am looking at Sanyo's Xacti CG10 (for the same price as this and it shoots 720p HD) to start a new YouTube account, IndeedVajay because I was extremely unhappy with this camera's quality. If you watch one of my YouTube videos, you will find black lines on the bottom and on the side. Also, the tape sometimes skips and I lose milliseconds of the video, which is a complete drag to rewind the tape and overwrite it. It also sucks to import the video to the computer, first, because it imports through FireWire, which not every computer has, and is has NO SD CARD SLOT, which takes a long time to import because you have to rewind it, and play it back to import it. I rated it ***/2 because I rated in general, not regarding YouTube or anything like that. If you don't mind any of the problems I had, this is a perfect camera. Also, before I bought this, I watched reviews of it and no one mentioned anything I experienced so I find this good to know.