Panasonic PVL453 VHS-C Camcorder with 2.5" LCD and SD Digital Still Capability

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Manufacturer: Panasonic
Price at amazon.com: Used & new from $179.94

List price $299.99



Product Features:

• VHS-C camcorder with Dual digital electronic image stabilization
• 20x optical zoom lens, 700x digital zoom
• 2.5-inch LCD
• Digital still images captured to Secure Digital card or tape
• Color digital filter, digital fade,strobe, and wipe, motion sensor, date and time

Product Description:

Palmcorder MultiCam VHS-C Camcorder with 2.5 inch (diagonal) Color LCD Monitor, PhotoShot Built-in Digital Still Camera>

Average Customer Rating:

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Comment: Not so great Rating:
I got the camcorder, took it home, charged the battery, and started to experiment with it. Seemed fine at first. I was happy with it. The next day, (or the day after, maybe) I noticed a noise that happened while I was recording that sounded annoying. I took the camcorder to a concert to record a band and the tape seemed to drag. I popped the tape into one of the Playpak adapters (whatever you call them) to watch the video on the living room TV and noticed that the sound quality wasn't so great, and neither was the video quality. I don't know if this is just a bad-quality camcorder in all, or if I just happened to buy a bad one. My advice is to research everything you can before getting one of these. Try out others, whatever you want/need to do, but I, personally, do not recommend this camcorder to anyone. The tape seemed to drag, the video quality wasn't that great, the sound quality was pretty poor. The built in microphone, to me, seemed a little too sensitive. Now one thing I realized is that I had the video mode in SLP (super long play) so that the tape would last longer, which sacrifices some of the quality of the video and sound, but that shouldn't cause the tape to drag. And the microphone just seemed a little too sensitive, to me. I don't really recommend this camcorder. Maybe I just happened to pick up a bad one but if they're all like the one I bought, I definately do NOT recommend this one.

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