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 Great HD Camera for the Price August 20, 2010
Rob Gray Wolf (Ohio)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This camera works great. Full HD 1080 is choppy in places on my laptop, not the camera's fault play's back fine on TV. HD 720 plays fine on
my laptop. I really only got 2 things I don't like.
1. The lens cap is a snap on type, so don't lose it.
2. The camera is really small. It's about the size of my hand so it will take some getting used to.
My advice would be if you want full HD and got a budget this one is great. However if you got the money to spend you can get
better..
Neat! August 12, 2010
Philip Wood (Austin, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This camera is much smaller than I expected from the pictures, just about pocket-sized for a guy. 1080i HD video looks great too. It has a ton of features for the price, optical zoom being a notable one. The camera claims to come with onboard memory, but don't expect to use it. It holds about 20 seconds of HD video. Don't let that turn you away though! Get a 16GB Class 6 SDHC card (like this one: Transcend 16 GB Class 6 SDHC Flash Memory Card TS16GSDHC6E [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging]), and you'll have 2 hours capacity. I'd make sure the card is at least Class 6 so as to minimize saving delays, this way you can rapid-fire several HD clips without waiting for the camera to finish saving.
Saw elsewhere in the reviews that the manual is hard to find. It is indeed! Once you finally track down the PDF on Sanyo's site, that turns out to just be the shorter "User Guide". This directs you to download the full Manual, but neglects to tell you where!
Fortunately I managed to track down the English manual on the Japanese Sanyo support site. Edit: See comments on this review for the link.
The URL says GH1 but the manual is actually for all GH series cameras, this one included. Bookmark this for later if you order =)
 Great camera for a great price.... July 19, 2010
D. DeMarco (New Jersey)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
It might take some time to make sure you are using your bells and whistles in the correct combination, but when you do, you will be impressed. Example: yesterday there was a butterfly on some flowers out on my deck and I tried to take a close up video for it and I just couldn't get it into focus. However, after going through the settings and adjusting for light sensitivity, macro focus, etc. the video came out GREAT! I was even able to see the tongue of the butterfly with this camera. Luckily the butterfly was cooperative and hung around for 5-10 minutes for me to get organized to take such a great little video. As with most technical devices, if you don't learn to use it properly, then it just becomes another expensive paperweight. If you learn to use this camera, you will want it with you everywhere you go.
GREAT HD Quality but weak in low light conditions July 10, 2010
ChaoticMetal1234
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This camcorder is GREAT for the price!!! Comes with a lot of features including Face Chaser Technology. It is a dual camera meaning it allows you to take 14MP still images as well as Full 1080P video! This is one of the very few camcorders in the 100 to 200 dollar price range that can record 1080P video at 60FPS as opposed to 30FPS. That is an amazing ability. I am greatly surprised in the superb video quality of this camcorder and would recommend people to buy it if they want to transfer from Standard Definition and enter the world of High Def content! The camcorder operates flawlessly and is very intuitive for beginners. Note though, you must download the manual for the Sanyo VPC-GH2 of the Sanyo main website. I couldn't ask for anything better in this price range. The only major disappointment of this camcorder is the fact that it doesn't take good low light videos. When recording in low light conditions it looks grainy and the FPS is rather slow. I tried playing around with the exposure settings, white balance, u name it! It just wouldn't cooperate. That's the only down side to this camcorder! I would recommend purchasing this item!
 Dual Camera - Digitial Photos (14MP) and Video (1080 60i HD) June 26, 2010
QuaziModem (Los Angeles, CA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
That's what Sanyo advertises and it does the job for both. It takes great photos at 14 megapixels and does full 1080, 60i video using the mpeg4/h.264 recording format. It has 5x optical zoom and an additional 12x digital zoom for video. The video/photo image stabilizer is just OK, in fact after using it more and more, I'm leaning closer to saying that it doesn't even exist.
I picked it up from Radio Shack for $199. The one I got is black in color with a plastic casing and feels kinda cheap but I expected that. Basically, this is your typical budget, entry-level point/shoot/share digital camera and HD video camcorder. I'm pleasantly surprised with what it can do and I am happy with it. It works as advertised just don't expect high quality. With an 8GB card will give you 61 mins of full HD or 1690 14MP shots assuming you do one or the other, less if you do both.
If you will do a lot of video/pictures, I suggest getting a 2nd battery and a higher capacity SD memory card. The battery can drain pretty fast. The SDHC card that I got with this camera is a Gigaware brand class 2 because it was all they had in stock. What a MISTAKE. You definitely need a class 4 SDHC card or better for HD video. Also, a bit of warning, indoor video is terrible even with the high sensitivity setting on (a setting that supposed to compensate for low light) decent lighting or outdoor HD video should be no problem. BTW.. I played the video on VLC, video was terrible. My suggestion is to make sure you have the proper codecs installed on your computer to view the video files.
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