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"Great all in one" on by oljoshe8743
Pros: very easy to work
picture quality is great
video quality is also greatCons: a little hard to hold focus when fully zoomed
Summary: Tested camera against my Canon 20D SLR
Tested camcorder against my Sony HD Camcorder
You would have to be a professional to figure which was better on both counts.
For a point and shoot, it cannot possibly get any better.
The software was also very simple, burning a hd dvd no problem (you need a dvd player that will play "avchd", my 2 year old blu ray does so I'm sure most any will) or you can burn your video in sd format for any player (I have not checked this quality.)
I have a couple of thousand dollars worth of cameras I will be gladly setting on my shelf and replacing with this one in my pocket.
I ordered this Camera for my father, when I got it I could not help testing it.
I am looking for one now for myself. I showed the pics and video to my brother he said order him one. I hope they pay me back. -
"Great camera for when I don't need the power of my SLR." on by 3xranger
Pros: Clear, well exposed pictures of people and landscapes. Camera does a great job of detecting scenes and taking very high quality pictures. I would highly recommend to anyone who doesn't want to lug around a big camera (I have a D200).
Cons: Not much manual controls are available. But like I mentioned above, this is for those occasions when you don't need or want the big gun.
Summary: This is a great camera for traveling light and still getting high quality pictures--all automatically. I consider myself an amateur photographer and love to take photos where I'm in control of all setting--I have a Nikon D200. But there are times when I just want to do things other than photography. When I do stuff with the kids, I find this camera to be the perfect companion. Just point and shoot. The camera even recognizes my kids faces when taking group shots, and it makes sure that my kids are correctly exposed and focused. It detects the scene where you may have a very light background with a person in the foreground and compensates to expose the person correctly. The other beauty is the wide angle and telephoto--and it's not digital telephoto, it's the real deal.
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"Best Digital camera we have owned!!" on by whaase
Pros: 12X zoom, and CLEAR!! Zoom while shooting video, nice video quality, Excellent still pictures!!
Cons: I have NO cons
Summary: We used this camera on our 1st BIG summer vacation to Jackson Hole, Wy and Yellowstone National Park. What better place to test a camera's quality then there! Anti-shake worked super while on horseback and a river float trip, again, no better situation to test this feature! We had 2 digitals filming at the same time, the other without anti-shake and very obvious it did not have this feature! Stills? We did not have 1 still that was blurry!! Not one! MANY with the other! The zoom while video taping was exceptional! The videos we took of Bison, Elk and the Tetons were very nice!! I made a 50 video movie with Adobe Premiere Elements, the big issue here is the absolute HOG of a computer you need to make a movie!! It to FOREVER to make the movie because my BRAND NEW HOG HP laptop was not THE top laptop on the mountain which you WILL need!! 6 to 8 gigs of RAM, I have an AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile ZM-86 chip set, not fast enough! Make sure if you want to make movies, long ones with lots of transitions and other effects, that you also have a fast, current system and program that can handle the AVCHD format or you won't be happy!!
great camera, and all we'll use from here out! -
"Best camera I ever head, finally a proper hybrid" on by peterlam268
Pros: - Great attention to details
- Lecia Lense
- Great Movie (no limit to length)
- 12x zoom
- really compact
- great photo qualityCons: - no manual control
- bad AVHD format - cannot be easily playback in either mac or Windows
- no support for Mac
- Dial is extremely annoying if not in position (it won't allow to shoot or view the photos if you dial are not click to the right mode)Summary: Excellent Camera!! A real hybrid... no longer need to sacrifice in video quality. I pick this over LX-3 because i usually don't use the manual controls no matter how much i love to.
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"great camera" on by wes
Pros: stereo in movie mode, zoom in movie mode, 25mm wide angle, intelagent sensor very easy to use. small compared to my SLR nickon. very good pic qulity, great movie quality.
Cons: dial get moved easy.
Summary: i spent many weeks reviewing cameras and came up with this one on top. I am very happy with it. I dont miss the manuel controls as I can use mu nickon SLR any
time for that sooting but I have owned 10 digatal cameras and like this one the most
i would highly recomend this camera to any one.
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