I bought this camcorder 6 months ago. It produces excellent image and very good sound quality. It is good enough for family use with reasonable price. It records every happy moment successfully.
It is a small size and stylish looking camcorder. It is not exactly a pocket size camcorder but it definitely won't be a big piece of luggage for your travelling. To avoid damage the camcorder, I ordered a bag as well to protect the device and store extra memory card. It is only 260g, so it is very easy to handle it.
It is a quite memory card camcorder. It can use Secure Digital (SD) card and Secure Digital with High Capacity (SDHC) card, which is a popular type of memory card used by most digital device for storage. SD card has capacity up to 4 Giga Byte (GB). SDHC is the new version of this memory card, which has high capacity more than 4 GB.
Since it uses memory card, so the batteries life is good and it also does not have the noise of the Hard Drive equipped camcorder. Currently you can get up to 32GB card, so it is large enough for storing your video clips and pictures.
It produces good quality pictures It performs quite good when it is plenty of light. Of course it is not an High Definition (HD) camcorder, so I do not expect it can produce the best image in the world. Still picture quality is not as good as digital camera because it is just 1 million pixel. 37x optical zoom could meet the requirement for family use. It does not perform well in the night even with Built-in Video Light.
The software package is easy to use. The software comes with the camcorder, called Pixela ImageMixer 3 SE, will let you to convert the movie format for different purposes, like web casting mode etc.There are some bad bits of the camcorder.
It needs to connect two cables on the camcorder to get the picture or movie out of the camcorder.
The instruction is not clear when you can unplug the camcorder from the PC.
To avoid the two bad points above, you can use a card reader but software comes with the camcorder could not load the movies very well.
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This is a good start to a review although you use some technical details I was not sure about. It is a good idea to explain abbrieviations as if the reader is clueless (as they well may be, like myself), as we are writing in order to assist a prospective buyer to make a comparison and purchasing decision. If you want to add more information, the "Edit your review" link above, or the "Edit review" link in your profile review list
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