Archive for the '$500 - $800' Category
Samsung SC-HMX10 Review
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Samsung takes some interesting turns to deliver its semibudget-priced, flash-based HD camcorder. On one hand, the SC-HMX10 seems to offer quite a bit for the money, including 720p video, 8GB built-in memory, manual exposure controls, and a microphone input, all in a diminutive package. On the other hand, you can see where they cut the [...]
JVC Everio GZ-MG555 Camcorder Review
Thursday, July 19th, 2007VC continues its line of Everio hard-drive camcorders with the GZ-MG555. Equipped with a single 5-megapixel sensor and a 10x zoom lens, the GZ-MG555 is the highest-end standard-definition Everio camera currently on the market. It isn’t JVC’s top consumer camcorder (the high-definition Everio GZ-HD7 has that honor), but its higher resolution and much more-robust control [...]
Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD2 Camcorder Review
Thursday, April 19th, 2007Sanyo claims its Xacti VPC-HD2 is the smallest high-def camcorder on the market. While I can’t quite confirm the superlative, it certainly is a very small, light camcorder that can fit almost an hour of 720p footage into a single 4GB SD memory card. The VPC-HD2 shares the same slender, vaguely gun-shaped design as Sanyo’s [...]
Hitachi DZ-HS300A Camcorder Review
Sunday, March 25th, 2007I’ll start with the good news. Hitachi’s goal of an inexpensive camcorder, combining the long recording times and stability of a hard disk drive with the easy playback and distribution of a DVD, merits attention. Furthermore, from that limited perspective, the hybrid DZ-HS300A succeeds. Its one-touch dubbing from the 8GB hard disk to the internal [...]
JVC Everio GZ-MG57 Review
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006Released in September 2006 with little fanfare, the JVC Everio GZ-MG57 seems to do nothing more than fill a hole in JVC’s hard-disk camcorder lineup. Similar to its predecessor, the GZ-MG50, JVC made several small changes without really changing the overall product.
