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Panasonic HDC-SD5 AVCHD 3CCD Flash Memory High Definition Camcorder with 10x Optical Image Stabilization
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$867.06
Features
• Record HD video direct to SDHC cards; up to 1 hour on a 4 GB SDHC card
• 1920 x 1080 full-HD recording; HD Advanced Pure Color Engine
• Leica Dicomar lens with 10x optical zoom; built-in Advanced O.I.S.
• 2.7-inch wide-angle LCD monitor; 170-degree viewing angle
• Intelligent Contrast Control |
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Panasonic HDC-SD5 AVCHD 3CCD Flash Memory High Definition Camcorder with 10x Optical Image Stabilization Customer Reviews
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Wish I could recommend - sorry!!!!!!
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I really hate to be negative, but if my experience helps - so be it - if I'm worng - tell me! I'm a pretty big consumer gadget geek and love this kind of product. I was looking for a video camcorder that also takes still pictures to enhance my current Canon G7 (love the G7 - pics and vid's) to capture my new Grand Daughter and Kids!
As mentioned above, my current camera has been the G7 for about a year now, and I really think this is one of the finest cameras I have owned (and I have owned about every other camera out there - most returned). But..... the SD5 did not live up to my expectations at all!
First the good stuff: It is really cool to look at - small, simple design was very easy to set up, and the controls worked fine. I took lot's of test shots with both the video and still options (since that is how the camcorder is advertised videos and STILLS). I'm not going to go into too many positives because the negatives are the important things that people like me really want to read. And at nearly $1000 - well the con's are pretty darn important!
Now the NOT SO GOOD:
Still shots are not good at all - simply an after thought in my option and you will be very disappointed if you think about using it for even a back-up to your other gear! Sorry Panasonic - with all the new technology, lenses, and electronic circuits you could have put in, you could have done MUCH better! I know this is a video camera, but if you advertisement says it take stills, it should do - at least - as good or better job than my Treo 700W cell phone.
More important than the stills - the video! Wow is it a lot of work to download into my computer, and then once there it was horrible to look at!!!!! To be honest - I did not hook it up directly to my HDTV with the HDMI, but frankly, most of MY viewing would be done through my computers (both are pretty fancy brand new duo cores, lot's of RAM, play other videos perfectly, etc..) hooked up as media centers on two of my HD TV's - so the process of burning onto a DVD would rarely happen. You first have to take out the battery, then hook up the AC plug, then use their USB cable (it says in the owners manual to ONLY use there's - don't now why), and then transfer into their software called HD Writer. It took me a bit of searching to find the actual files - said it was going to My Pictures, but is was in a different log-in user! Anyway, once there - you could only watch on the HD Writer unless you convert to Mpeg 2(?). By the way - to convert a pretty small file (about 100 MB, only a few minutes of footage, seem to take forever, even on my pretty fast computer system. Again, to be honest - I did not record the time it took, but it seemed to take forever! The MPEG2 then could be viewed with Window Media Player, but the quality was, well, awful. My Canon G7, looked better right off the SD card - Chip/Chop - no conversion, good color, stable (not choppy like the MPEG2), smaller size, easy! With the SD5 you can not simply take out the SD card and watch video on your computer without first doing all that other stuff - unless there is another way the directions don't tell you. WAY TO MUCH WORK FOR ME!!!
Maybe I just did it all wrong - anyone else, please tell me if there were other options. All I want to do is take good quality video, pop out the SD card, transfer into a folder, and view!!!!! For now the Canon G7 will suffice for that. Bottom line - the HDC-SD5 was returned the next day! I realize it's not a real technical review, but my real world experience! Good Luck
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