Toshiba Camileo X100 Full-HD Camcorder (Silver/Black)

Review by JJ for Toshiba Camileo X100 Full-HD Camcorder (Silver/Black)
Rating:
all around this camera is a bit of a let down… some things you just aren’t going to get in an entry level camera, and i understand that, but some things should be easy to do and aren’t in there.

You can’t turn the screen off… so time lapse is limited to an hour or two (unless you’re plugged in)

there aren’t many customizable settings, it’s quite basic

You can’t turn the auto focus off, so if you do a timelapse sometimes it just slowly unfocuses itself over the period of the video…

the strap isn’t adjustable enough for my smaller hands, and the thumb buttons are a little hard to get to; i have to stabilize the camcorder with my left hand to reach with my right thumb, and the action of the thumb wheel feels restricted

every time you turn the camcorder off, your settings are erased… want to conserve your battery by turning it off between shooting stuff? you’ll have to go back and tell it all of your preferences (except picture quality, it remembers that)

panning in and out is a little slow

even where they printed “camileo x100″ you can tell, at least on my camera, that the print is crooked

still pictures are hard to get focused, and there are very few options to get it to take better pictures

I think Toshiba can do a lot better than this