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Summary: Great Outdoor Camera
Review: This is a great DV camera - loaded I should say, all possible in/out options. I have used it on Win Win ME / Win 2000 / Win XP on my desktop and laptop and results are fantastic and no problem with any system to recognize the new hardware. I was a little apprehensive about the small size, but no regrets - it can do all the stuff the high end 1000+ cameras can (Barring still capture on media card) I have a digital camera anyways for that.I would have given it full 5 but for its poor indoor results and a little not so good battery life. But I still love this camera and which definately beats all cameras any day except I guess SONY...
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Summary: BIG bang for the buck... very small camera.
Review: This is an absolutely amazing little camera... and boy is it little! The only (minor) complaint I have is video quality in low light. Otherwise, this little camera is perfect for everything a normal person needs a camcorder for. I was using it out of the box in a few seconds (the battery came well charged). It is remarkably sturdy, easy to handle, and has a great selection of features. Add that to what I can do with my iMac and iMovie, and I have everything I need, and then some!
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Summary: great bargain
Review: This is my first camcorder. I'm the kind of person who can't figure out how to set the clock on the VCR, yet I was able to take good video after just a quick review of the owners manual. I am really surprised at the excellent quality of both picture and sound - even when the lighting isn't the best. This camera was a great bargain through Amazon. I'm really glad I bought it. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Excellent camera, worth ever penny
Review: This is my first digital camcorder and I am very impressed. It is easy to use, shoots excellent video and has great battery life. We visited Thailand late last year and the camcorder behaved flawlessly. It coped very well with lighting extremes, switching from bright, midday sun to deep shadow without missing a beat. Add the excellent steady shot feature and I was able to capture footage of the Jade Buddha from 200 feet away, shooting from bright sunlight, through a door into deep shadow. The best single feature is how small and light it is. We travel often and we like to use the cancorder to capture our journey and get candid shots of our surroundings. With larger camcorders, this is impossible, With this one, most people did not even notice I was shooting. We got some excellent street scene footage in Bangkok and almost nobody noticed I was shooting. It may not match the picture quality of a high end 3CCD camcorder but a highend camcorder would not fit confortably in the palm of my hand and the battery would not last through two hours of taping.
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Summary: Cant sum it up
Review: This miniDV camcorder I bought is the best piece of video equiptment I own, its so small and light its crazy. And to top it off the image quailty is just plain amazing. I am just an film student and it is perfect for making my movies and doing my small projects with.
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Summary: You got trade off for smaller body!
Review: Watch out this Mini-DV Camcorder's lens! The Maximum CCD resolution only 460,000 pixels. It's only slightly higher than Digital8 camcorder's resolution. Most Mini-DV has CCD 680,000 pixels. Like the Panasonic PV-DV51, for similar price, got 680,000 pixels better lens but bigger body. Both Canon and Panasonic models have pretty good performance rated by Consumer Report.
If you don't care the lens resolution, just go for ZR10! Beside that, the optical zoom (the most important part for zoom feature) lens only 10X. PV-DV51 has 18X.
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Summary: Started eating tapes
Review: We bought this camera in 2002 and now it has started eating and rejecting tapes. At first it would only eat the expensive tapes and worked fine with the cheap ones. Now, it does not work at all. I paid close to 700$ for this and now it is useless.
It is obvious that Canon goofed up big time on this one. They should read these reviews and do something about it instead of hiding.
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