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Camera Reviews from Amazon.com

• March 3, 2010
  Great Camera - Suggestion for software

  

  VERY pleased with the camera but as much of virtues have been extolled elseware I will concentrate on software. The included Pixela software is rubbish and does not merit inclusion on your hard disk. After much searhing I have at last found good use for my Nero-9. It works magnificently.
  1. copy your camcorder files (they have a .MTs extension)from your SD memory on to your hard disc.
  2. In Nero, in 'Create and Edit' select the 'Author, Edit and Capture Video' option and from there, select 'Make Movie' option. Import your file into the 'My Media Files' box. If you want to join several of you camcorder files into ONE whole movie then select them all into 'My media files in the correct order.
  3. Highlight each required in the reverse order and click the '+' button to place it into lower strip. Then click 'Next'.
  4. Now select 'Export Movie' and now you can select which standard (MPEG-2, AVI etc) which you require.
  5. Also click 'Configure' to select the other characteristics of the file that you require.
  
  I wanted an MPEG-2 file so I chose the following 'Custom' Options.
  a) Aspect Ratio - 16:9
  b) Size - User Defined - Width 1920 Height - 1072
  c) Video Quality - Maximum
  d) Encoder quality fine tuning - 100
  e) Audio Format - LPCM
  I arrived at these values by quite a bit of experimentation but try finding your own preferences.
  Now click 'OK' and then remember to click 'browse' and choose your prefered folder and file name for the resulting file. Finally click' Export.
  I got a file about 1% larger than the original and as far as I could estimate, the quality
  was as good as the original. I was HIGHLY delighted with Nero. I hope these suggestions help others.
  
  

• March 1, 2010
  Love it!

  

  It works really great, but is a little grainy in low light, so I just purchesed the bigger light. It takes really good pictures and flash works good too! Very happy with battery life, have not needed my back up battery the last 10 times I used it.

• February 27, 2010
  Watch for low light!

  

  I read all the reviews for this camera before getting one and I just wanted to confirm that the relatively bad image quality with low light is ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
  I wouldn't say that it's horrible, but I compared the quality with a movie taken with my very cheap Flip Mineo (the old basic model, not the HD) and it was pretty much the same. I don't know if competitor cameras at the same price point have the same problem though (I checked the specs for sensor, aperture and all that and they seemed equal or worse to this one) but it's definitely not something that I would consider HD.
  Everything else is pretty good.