SVP T100-Black 16MP Max. True HD Camcorder with 2.4″ LCD

good buy for a cheap price, September 16, 2010

I purchased this half months ago to supplement my photography bag. I already own a Nikon D70 DSLR, so I purchased the SVP T100 as a take-along digital cam for situations where I didn’t want to lug around the D70, and also as a digital camcorder for quick videos.

Compared on any one feature, the T100 falls short to any other dedicated device. But taken as a whole, and for the price, it’s a useful gadget.

I have used over a dozen digital cameras and SLRs for over 15 years. The SVP is impressive for the money. I paid about for it, and I think it’s worth that for sure.

The digital camera is acceptable. White balance and colors are pretty good, though the color range is somewhat muted – easily fixed with photo software. With adequate lighting and if your subject is posed or otherwise unmoving, it does a pretty good job. Shutter lag is significant and there isn’t any control of shutter speed/aperture anyway – so don’t expect to use this in situations with fast-moving objects. You can manually control the white balance and some photo frames that will really only be useful for children, but they are there. While it does turn out the camera as being able to take pictures at 16MP resolution, the actual sensor is for 5MP.

As a camcorder, the SVP T100 is much more impressive. It does a good job at capturing any sort of scene, provided the lighting is adequatewith $ X digital room means that your options are somewhat limited – but it does a great job at capturing an everyday, well-lit scene. Audio quality is surprisingly good too. Direct playback using the supplied cables to a TV looks surprisingly good, and the videos are pretty decent even on a higher resolution PC monitor.

I have been using the MP3 player. When you connect the camera to your computer, you’ll find an MP3 folder. Just drag and drop your songs there and you’re set. The speaker on the camera is pretty good, but it distorts a little if you have it on too loud. The included ear-buds are pretty good, although I’m sure it would sound much better with high-end Bose. You can’t fast-forward or rewind a song, but how often do you really do that?

The voice recorder works as a voice recorder – not much to say here.

To summarize, the SVP T100 is a good product, you just have to keep its price/features in perspective. It’s ok at pictures, good at video, and has a few other neat ‘convergence’ features thrown in the mix. As a quick-and-dirty camera/camcorder, it’s fine. But it cannot compare with dedicated devices. On the other hand, you’d need to spend 4 or 5 times the cost of the SVP T100 to get a collection of other devices to do the same work (camera, camcorder, mp3 player, voice recorder, etc).

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