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Summary: Don't Do It
Review: Amazon was great! They sent me three of these, and the last one worked for around 6 months.
As for the camera - don't buy it. We were on camera number two when our first child was born. I took a lot of shots at the hospital, and the heads appear to have been dirty. Even though it was brand new! Camera number one liked to eat tapes.
Number three has bad heads after six months of use. This wouldn't be so bad except that I NEED the camera this week, and the nearest service center (according to sharp) is 750 miles away. The warrenty won't cover the fix, and the cost of repair is over half what I paid for the camera itself.
Low light recording is grainy. Outdoors looks great - when it works.
You get what you pay for!
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Summary: Don't Buy this one
Review: Nothing but trouble. Sent to repair shop 3 tmes in 7 months. Sharp even replaced first camera. Both only lasted 80-90 days before eating tapes. Sharp does not back up their product either. I would recommend a JVC.
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Summary: So far so good!
Review: I received the camcorder 3 days after I ordered it....wow that's fast. I have just tried to record with it today. If the things works as explained...it was a deal. Quite a deal!! I'll buy from them again.
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Summary: nice for basic recording
Review: I am thirteen years old and use this camera frequently, although the digital stills are not of a respectable quality, the lens is great, (26x optical, and 780x digital zoom) buy this camera....For this to be a great camcorder you need to clean the heads once in a while. Thank you.
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Summary: Great item for the price
Review: Not the best camcorder ever made, but can't be beat for the price! For my purposes, (home videos for the grandparents) it's a great camera. Have no major gripes with the video portion of the camera, but the still shot is very grainy and does not take low light pictures well at all...overall, very happy with my purchase and maybe will just buy a digital camera for the stills.
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Summary: average
Review: this camera is good for the price but not much better, i was able to get it on sell which made it worth it.
good video footage, very poor stills, and a good microphone, nice zoom and other features.
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Summary: Very Disappointed in this camera......Broke twice!
Review: I put alot of hours of research in before buying a digital camcorder, I found that this camcorder with all the features and the cost at the time was a great buy. I bought this as a Christmas gift for my husband, we had just had our third child and wanted to get an upgrade from our VHS camcorder. After about two weeks using the camera the tapes were getting eaten up by the camera. We called Sharp and we were told to send the camera to a nearby dealer, which we did, the eject mechanism and the tape holder had to be replaced, it was covered under warranty but the fact that two weeks of taping was ruined was very disheartening. It took about a month and a half to get the camera back which meant that our baby was growing and we weren't getting any footage. Now today almost 4 months since the repair the camera ATE ANOTHER TAPE, again the company has us sending it in for repairs. Our baby is 7 months old now and we have absolutely no video to speak of. I am soo frustated and there is no way to replace the camera or get my money back at this point and no way to replace the tapes! Buyer Beware and don't purchase this camera!!
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Summary: Number of Features but not so reliable
Review: I have been using this product for about 6 months now.
With resolution of 460000 - the quality of picture particularly in low light is not so great.It already broke once while watching the playback - the view suddently turned blue - without any error message. I don't know how exactly it will get fixed -...
In the process I had to deal with Sharp Customer Service - and the least I can say is - its horrible. You will feel lucky to get some useful information/help out of them. The digital still picture using smartmedia is useless because of low resolution offered - you can barely recognize the face. Overall, I will say instead of going for a low priced Digital Cam from Sharp go for a Hi-8 from more reliable manufacturer.
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Summary: Sharp does not stand behind product
Review: I bought this camera as a Christmas gift. It was used 3 or 4 times and upon playback, the picture was unclear & showed "pixels". Sharpe said that the 90 day warranty on labor had expired but the warranty still covered parts. I shipped to the closest service location and the authorized service center fixed it. They shipped it back to me just in time for a summer vacation. It worked one day, and now it is doing the same thing again. I have shipped it back. Sharp says they use the industry standard warranty of 90 days on labor and they are sorry it isn't working. Amazon says that they are only the go between, so I have to deal with Sharp Company. I may have saved a few dollars buying through Amazon but I would gladly pay the extra cost to have a person I could speak to in person who wanted to keep my business.
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Summary: Worst consumer experience I've ever had.
Review: This lemon broke after 4 months and only 1.5 hours of use. I got a lot of lip service from Sharp customer service, both over the phone and in standard form letter e-mail responses. Even though the camera was only physically used for an hour and a half, I had it for four months which put me just outside the warranty for labor -- the parts were still covered. Big deal, I still had to pay for shipping to one of only 3 authorized service centers in the US (OH). It cost me ... in labor and shipping fees and it came back in EXACTLY the same condition it was sent -- BROKEN. After a furious long distance call to the OH service center, I was asked to pack it up and they would issue a call tag to have it returned to the center. That was a week ago and UPS still hasn't come to pick up the camera. So I don't expect to have a working camera anytime soon. Even when it does come back, I don't have any great expectations for the life span of this piece of junk. Do yourself a favor and spend a little more for a Sony. I will never purchase another Sharp product again.
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