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I bought it from Amazon.Com who gave me a great deal. It takes great pictures and videos. Canon's ZR850 is a quality product. It's user friendly.
I think an on/off switch somewhere on the camera would have made more sense and would have been easier to use. I was willing to overlook that since I bought this as a camcorder and not as a camera. I got a really good deal on it and thought it would be a shame to have to return it, but there's no point in having a video camera that requires you to dub over all the videos you record because of noisy playback. When I played back my video, it sounded like I recorded it standing next to an airplane that was about to take off.
I just got this camera today and have already decided to return it. Personally, I do not like what's available on the market for ANY digital camcorders I've seen that are in the home-user price range. It also doesn't make sense to me that you have to go into the camera's menus to get the LCD light to turn on. My first problem was the graininess of the photos.
I was hoping to use this camera to record a seminar, but the video would be useless with all that noise from the camera drowning out the speaker. I think I'm going to downgrade back to Hi8 and just take my chances that I'll be able to find a place that stills sells the tapes. Even on the highest quality setting in good lighting, the photos were grainy. But I was stunned by how loud the motor is on this thing.
It is a gift for my dad , but before sending it out I did test it and seems to be working just fine.I cannot give any other details about its performance.YET.
We contacted the seller, and they were very nice and asked us to return it for an exchange. We purchased this camcorder for our wedding and honeymoon. The cons of buying this camera were obviously that we did not have it for part of our honeymoon, so we have no footage of my husband parasailing or us swimming with dolphins -- which was the reason for purchasing the camera -- and we had to pay shipping to return the camera only two weeks after purchase. We have not received our new camera yet, (I can update this review once we do) but we're looking forward to having it back. The camera is great: small size, easy to use, good quality. However, toward the end of the honeymoon, the camera stopped working.
I love it. This is damn good camera, and for the price it really is a deal. I've shot my first short film with this camera, and am going to buy two more for my first feature film next year.
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