Archive for the '$800 - $1000' Category
Canon HR10 Review
Monday, November 26th, 2007The DVD-recordable child in Canon’s nursery of consumer HD camcorders, the HR10 has the distinction of being my least favorite of the lot. Because it records to DVDs in the AVCHD format, it lacks the speed and compatibility of the less-expensive HV20, the recording capacity of the hard-disk-based HG10, and the compactness of the tape-based [...]
JVC Everio GZ-HD3 Review
Sunday, November 25th, 2007When Lori Grunin reviewed JVC’s Everio GZ-HD7 a few months ago, it did all right, but she concluded that its features, performance, and image quality didn’t live up to its high price tag. JVC followed up the HD7 with the Everio GZ-HD3, a scaled-down version, which includes the same triple-CCD design and a lot of [...]
Canon HG10 Review
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007It’s been a longish wait, but Canon will finally premiere its first hard-disk based camcorder this October, the AVCHD-compatible HG10. Based on the innards and lens of the HV20, the HG10 nevertheless uses an almost completely different design, one that takes a few chances–not necessarily successful ones.
Sony Handycam HDR-CX7 Review
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Join me, if you will, along the slow march toward the obsolescence of tape in video. We’ve definitely got a long road ahead of us, but it’s fun to notice how much camcorders have changed already. On the one hand, tapeless camcorders such as Sony’s Handycam HDR-CX7 give product designers the freedom to make smaller, [...]
Panasonic HDC-SD1 Camcorder Review
Thursday, October 18th, 2007One advantage of using flash memory cards as a recording medium in camcorders is that they facilitate smaller designs. The body of Panasonic’s 1.1-pound HDC-SD1, which records high-definition 1,440×1,080 AVCHD video to SD cards, is a mite smaller than camcorders which use other formats, but its tubular shape retains a bit too much bulk to [...]
