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2.0 due to 5 stars Horrible Indoor Video Recording Quality, August 16, 2003
By A Customer
This review is from: Samsung SCD5000 DuoCam MiniDV Camcorder/4MP Digital Still Camera (Electronics)
The video quality indoors is basically horrible, bear in mind the night time shot features, and every possible education settings, etc. I could very difficult to access good reasons to save this camera. However in the finish, motion picture quality was too horrible to justify it a $... digital still camera.
Outdoors, the recording was OK producing ever so slightly beaten up colors, but it is a real problem. Moving between light and moderately dark facets of a smallish room produced horrible video. During playback you can either got a factor appeared as if pure night also know as the sun multi functional room. The video recorder doesn't gracefully adjust between light and moderately light elements of living room. Occasionally with all the zoom, a pure white line is recorded vertically as part of the video!!!!!
Now for ones camera. A thing that annoyed me after a few minutes was the particular continual manual flipping of 1 / 2 of these devices between still and video. I did so an evaluation between your Samsung still dslr camera and my Sony 3.34 MP camera that we already owned. Disappointment again. Horrible color from Samsung (beaten up colors). I got not impressed using the quality after comparing about 10 different pictures of varying light, indoors, outdoors, etc. Without doubt the Sony 3.34 MB won.
I returned the Samsung camera and bought instead the Sony TRV70 approximately around the same price (I would really prefer to have tried the TRV80 but $... more was just not while in the cards to have an 1" more LCD). Thats a difference. Concerning color and lightweight (indoors especially), Sony has those two figured out. Awesome video recording indoors considering the Sony. All over the video am improved in the Sony. The still typically are not just like my Sony 3.34 but when you'll be able to settle for reduced picture size, the high quality is pretty good (plus no manual flipping of half the 780). I'll still probably take the two video as well as camera for the next trip (pending cooperation out of your wife). Really, for those who ignore such frills as Bluetooth and Internet connectivity from the inside your camcorder (!!!), you're able to probably buy something less expensive compared to a TRV70.
One day, we'll all carry one device that produces premium video and stills. For the time being, that day isn't really here yet.
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