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Ultra compact full HD cam with Extreme Easiness
List Price: $ 299.95
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I was looking for a full HD cam but under $250. I thought I hit the jackpot when I saw this for $299. Full HD, sub compact, excellent lens at f1.8, this was a dream com true! Then I woke up. The lowlight performance isn’t that great. Even with super low light selected, and a 1.8 lemse. Best performance is dependent on how much light you have (duh!), but by early evening and with dusk light, you’d think you shot video with an iPhone. Switch grip is a bit fidly. In more Thames one occasion, the image stuck after switching which required me to turn the cam off, then on to gain back control. Once also, the autofocus had a hardtiime switching from a sunny to shady area while on telephoto. It tried several times, but after 30 sec, I had to do the on off routine to reset it. Not good for those instant priceless moments. Hasn’t happened agin tho, so I’m Hopi g it’s a fluke. On the plus side, it’s one of the most comfortable cams to hold. Hardly weighs more than a cell phone. Battery life is good. You get just under 2hrs worth of full HD video with a 16gb card. Wait till it goes on sale. At $299, it’s still an ok cam tho.
Camcorder is reasonably priced and takes very good HD videos, but even though I have a Dell XPS computer with 4 GB RAM, it is not powerful enough to run the video editing software that comes with the camcorder. Playback on the software skips, stops, and I have been unable to run it. I was able to edit my videos with Roxio Creator 2011 without difficulty. So, be sure your computer is powerful enough to run this software. Samsung HMX-Q10 HD Camcorder Ultra Compact with 10x Optical Zoom (Black)
