Sales Rank: 885


Features:

NightAlive function for shooting in low-light conditions

Data Battery function that displays battery power and calculates remaining recording time

Included rechargeable battery provides up to 60 minutes of shooting time

1.33-megapixel ultra-compact MiniDV digital camcorder with 15x optical zoom/700x digital zoom

Captures digital stills to tape at native 1152 x 864 (interpolated up to 1600 x 1200)

Average Rating:
Rating: - Good middle of road camcorder.
I have owned this camcorder for about 2 months and recorded about 4 hours worth of video on it. The picture and audio quality is pretty good along with the color quality, especially indoors. I've had no problems with firewire connectivity on my PC when making DVDs with the camcorder. DV navigation is the best special feature on the camcorder. It uses the memory card to store thumbnail images of recorded video scenes to assist in video playback. It works like a chapter listing on a DVD movie. You pick the scene displayed and the camcorder will fast forward or rewind to that scene and begin playback. The downside to the camcorder is the MP4 video recording. It is pretty choppy. The other downside is battery life. During normal recording, I normally got about 45 minutes of battery life.

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Rating: - The best bang for the buck!
This camcorder is excellent for a beginner! It has a lot of functions such as thumbnail through the SD card, low-light function (Megabrid) that works reasonably well (better with a tripod), color viewfinder. You can program it to take pictures at different intervals, it will only depend on the capacity of your SD card. It is not mentioned that you can record video in the 16:9 Wide mode. That is great if you want to commit to Widescreen! Tip: Use the "Squeeze" Wide mode, then edit it with Ulead, and you have a 16:9 DVD. It has also firewire, 1 CCD for video, and 1.33 Megapixel for pictures. I would say all that is fine for a $400 camcorder. Enjoy it!

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Rating: - Single CCD
In response to Mehul Bavishi, this is not a 3CCD camcorder. According to their literature, it is a single 1/4.5" CCD.