SALE Price: $ 999.95

USERS REVIEWS:

The 60fps settings on the two the 1080i and 720i have been far better than the 1080p 30fps and 720p 30fps settings. What I CAN do, is splice the mpeg four clips with each other in the camera (quite simple to do!) and/or edit them in camera, and then burn up to the DVD. I was seeking for a camcorder that tooks fantastic video, was transportable and took good still pictures. I need to inform you that I am a skilled wedding photographer (still photos, 14 years) so that you have a reference point of who’s telling you what. Even so, if program on purchasing the 1010 to videotape your youthful young children or children’s sports, I don’t suggest this camera. ) The video’s that I’ve employed have come from point and shoot cameras that took good video clips. Most of my videos are taken at wide or mid variety (travel, scenic footage and household gatherings). 2. If you use excellent methods for regular subjects your videos will be fine. I shot twelve minutes of a family members birthday celebration making use of the methods I described and my videos had been fine, no “motion sickness video clips”. He’s a computer/techie specialist and we looked together and both agreed on the very same things. I received the Sanyo HD 1010 3 days ago, and had the whole weekend to play close to with it. The reason this camcorder is not for absolutely everyone is the poor picture stabilization. Because I could only base my determination on the 4 critiques that I read right here (which did aid immensely), I believed I’d share my opinion of this camcorder to aid other potential buyers make up their thoughts. It really is not Hi-def top quality, but it is DVD top quality and nonetheless greater than any other house video that I have. Even so, the 1010 does take great stills (a minor oversaturated, but fairly acceptable). It produces gorgeous video clips, much better than any camcorder I’ve ever owned. As other individuals have explained, I can not view the footage at standard speed (views jerky) on my Pc(windows XP, laptop, dual core), but I can even now burn it un-edited to a DVD which plays beautifully. Ok, my observations: *As I mentioned, I enjoy this merchandise. I’m positive you techies know). That’s in which a excellent optical image stabilizer will shine. My wife and I enjoy to travel. Understand that I am not replacing my even now camera (the Canon G7 is my travel camera) and don’t recommend anybody to substitute their still camera with this all in one particular camcorder. I genuinely need to have to do some much more comparisons with IS on, but this is my original impression. ) With the software package(Nero that comes packaged with the product, I am in a position to burn up a regular DVD taken from 1080i 60fps footage. You can constantly down convert, but you cannot upconvert. Most men and women have a tendency to overuse the zoom lens and pan also rapidly. It’s smoother. . I’ve looked at the Canon HF a hundred and the Samsung HMX20C and they are also small, but the 1010 just feels smaller sized to me and much more portable. I attempted all the diverse high quality settings and made a decision to stick with the 1080i 60fps as my permanent setting.

The Sanyo film is really jittery. Sanyo supports 720p but it uses 30 fps, not 24 fps. . For comparison the Canon HF10 has optical image stabilization and it has a 24 fps mode, both of which would have helped me. It is easy adequate to convert employing iTunes, but it will take a prolonged time. It was tiny, effortlessly fit in the jeans pocket, the image top quality was good for an SD camera, and most importantly, no post-processing was required! All you had to do was drag &amp drop files from the camera to the computer. Now the Sony and Sanyo quality seemed comparable. This is with Sanyo’s image stabilization on, and with zoom set to 1x. But the big distinction was in image stabilization. This camera built a large variation. AppleTV expects 720p 24 fps (frames per 2nd). In fact the Sanyo seemed to have more precise colour. I didn’t know how great Sony’s image stabilization was till I compared it to the Sanyo. Needless to say, since of the trouble I wasn’t creating extremely many house movies. I then decided to examine the HD1010 with my outdated Sony HDR-HC1. I encoded the Sony footage into H. But after yet again I wasn’t producing extremely many films because HDR-HC1 is tape based, which indicates a time-consuming approach is needed to transfer the movie and to encode to H. Bottom line: I am a small disappointed since the camera is larger and heavier than the Xacti C4, the files are not instantly compatible with AppleTV, and most importantly the image stabilization is poor, which implies you have to use a tripod. No waiting for the tape to wind. My very first HD camera was Sony HDR-HC1. 264 MP4 format. The difficulty with DV camcorders is that it is time-consuming to (1) import the film into the pc and (two) encode it into a appropriate format. To watch the film on Television all I had to do is drop the file into iTunes, then wirelessly stream the film to AppleTV. The resulting file is 960×540 not 1280×720 since iTunes offers priority to preserving the fps and at 30 fps AppleTV only supports 960×540. But that was the raw uncompressed footage. For HD camcorders stabilization is critical, and the HD1010 disappoints in this division. My first impression when I got the HD1010 was that it is greater and heavier than I anticipated. I held the Sony in a single hand and the Sanyo in the other and concurrently shot check footages making use of both cameras, in a semi-lowlight circumstance. I was not impressed with the image good quality. Then HD cameras became readily available. Another disappointment was that though the MP4 files from the Sanyo are compatible with QuickTime they are not compatible with AppleTV. Then I purchased an Xacti C4. 264 and adjusted the bitrate so that the resulting file is about the same dimension as the 1 from Sanyo. This is not a massive camera by any signifies, but my expectations were set by the tiny Xacti C4, and compared to that camera the HD1010 looks large and hefty. As a end result the file has to be converted just before becoming streamed to AppleTV. For comparison Sony charges further for a soft situation for their competing HDR-TG1. The Canon is more pricey but it has 16GB of internal memory which HD1010 does not. Prior to HD camcorders grew to become accessible I had a DV (tape primarily based normal definition) camcorder. It does not get any less complicated than this. Fine facts seemed to be missing apparently due to heavy noise-reduction. No re-encoding essential both because the file format is already MP4. It won’t match in my jeans pocket either (in contrast to the Sony HDR-TG1, the smallest HD camcorder readily available right now. That is a rather decent camera. ) What about image good quality? I shot a check footage in very low light. So I bought an Xacti HD1010 hoping to repeat my achievement with the outdated Xacti C4 but in HD this time. I like the fact that this camera comes with a soft situation. Initially the Sony appeared to have significantly far better image good quality

• Records in HD 1080p or 1080i high-def digital video; takes 4 megapixel still images
• Playback recordings on a 2.7-inch LCD display
• Includes 10x optical zoom, plus video and still image stabilization
• Features sequential shooting (7 FPS), plus face detection technology for video and photos (up to 12 faces)
• Comes with web cam functionality; USB 2.0 and S-Video output; SDHC flash memory compatible, plus 40 MB internal memory

Get both the functionality of a digital camera and a digital camcorder in one with the Sanyo HD1010 Xacti Digital Media Camera/Camcorder. It is a high-definition, compact digital media device with a 10x optical zoom. The HD1010 offers advanced, next-generation video performance and high-quality stills in one small, lightweight camera. This powerful little device is designed to record either 1080P (30fps) or 1080i (60fps) high-definition video and 4-megapixel digital still images, all of which ar

List Price: $ 649.99

SALE Price: $ 499.99

Rating: (out of reviews)

• Records in HD 1080p or 1080i high-def digital video; takes 4 megapixel still images
• Playback recordings on a 2.7-inch LCD display
• Includes 10x optical zoom, plus video and still image stabilization
• Features sequential shooting (7 FPS), plus face detection technology for video and photos (up to 12 faces)
• Comes with web cam functionality; USB 2.0 and S-Video output; SDHC flash memory compatible, plus 40 MB internal memory

Product DescriptionGet both the functionality of a digital camera and a digital camcorder with the Sanyo Xacti HD1010 Digital Media Camera / Camcorder. It is a high-definition compact digital media device with a 10x optical zoom. The HD1010 offers advanced, next-generation video performance and high-quality stills in one small, lightweight camera. This powerful little device is designed to either 1080P (30fps record) or 1080i (60fps) high-definition video and 4-megapixel digital camera. . . More>>

Sanyo Xacti HD1010 4MP MPEG4 High Definition 1080i/1080p Camcorder with 10x Optical Zoom