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For its relatively inexpensive price you get a decent enough, fairly easy-to-use hard disc & SD camera. If you shoot in 16:9 aspect ratio, you'll need to re-convert all your videos since the software stretches your image to 4:3 whether you like it or not. For me the pro's are its fairly compact size, good battery life, better sound quality than expected and a hard disc with sufficient capacity (40GB). Biggest cons are its fairly poor (though still acceptable) image quality in dark environments, not-so-convenient controls for playback/editing on the camera itself, and the appalling software that's included. Luckily there's a free little tool called SDCopy that can fix your image back to normal, but it takes effort & time.All in all I think it's a fairly useful camera, but I wouldn't buy it again. I'm sure there are better alternatives out there.
We bought this camcorder to take on vacation with us last year. We've also used it to tape our grandon's hockey game and family Christmases. I'm surprised at the ease of learning to use it. I really enjoy the charger which came with it; we can charge it up in a few hours and go film again.
Takes great videos, Bought it to take video of Grand daughter playing volleyball.Bought it because son has one and was pleased with it.
The battery that the site says is compatible is NOT.; I had to send back the extra battery but that was do-able. So far I haven't gotten the opportunity to play w/ my new toy. It is really small, fits in the palm of my hand. Havent decided if I like that yet.
The sad part of the story is we had our 1st child on July 2nd. The Panasonic Brand has been very upsetting to our family. We missed Halloween, Thanksgiving and our dream vacation on Maui in April. We will keep the story as short as possible. The camcorder we bought in July stopped working in September and again in April. I can't begin to tell you about the poor customer service I received from Panasonic. However I will be glad to give my cell phone number to call me before buying a Panasonic product (714-457-9260).Please call me with questions.Doug
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