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conehead433 - Posted 8:45 am PST 12/1/08 (419 Posts)
This has some good reviews at Amazon. I had thought I wanted a hard drive camcorder, but with SD cards you have zero noise from the camcorder while recording.
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david714 - Posted 8:49 am PST 12/1/08 (443 Posts)
I have this exact model and I really like it.
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crv_rave - Posted 8:52 am PST 12/1/08 (416 Posts)
#1, HDD camcorders barely make noise while recording, and if barely audible it is not picked up by the microphone... at least that is my hands-on experience with my Sony DCR-SR62 (I've recorded our first baby asleep and so was a virtually quiet environment -> no HDD noise picked up by mic).
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solid_spence - Posted 9:07 am PST 12/1/08 (280 Posts)
not bad i guess, you could bundle it with some good sd card savings' these holidays saw a 16gb sdhc for 30 bucks
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DrumDude - Posted 11:02 am PST 12/1/08 (334 Posts)
Waiting to see if Amazon matches this price as they briefly did on Saturday afternoon. I should have pulled the trigger then, but I really thought it would be lower today. If I didn't have Amazon gift cards I'd buy this from JR right now. This thing has awesome reviews everywhere! I'm selling my Canon ZR200 (miniDV) to get the HF100. No more motor noise, HD quality, smaller, has a video light and a separate flash light and it's much easier to get the video onto the PC (no more 1 to 1 capturing).
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DrGirlfriend - Posted 12:34 pm PST 12/1/08 (18 Posts)
I bought this about a week ago and it's a great camcorder so far. Great picture and silent.
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TakaSaurus - Posted 12:57 pm PST 12/1/08 (178 Posts)
The image stabilization on this is phenomenal. Even at the highest zoom the videos are very stable and eliminates handshaking (especially good for users juiced up with too much caffeine).
#8
wallclock - Posted 5:51 pm PST 12/1/08 (70 Posts)
Great camera, take a beast of a pc to do any kind of editing of the AVCHD footage.
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aem - Posted 6:18 pm PST 12/1/08 (37 Posts)
Very nice camcorder IMO but this is my first so can't directly compare to others. I've only noticed one flaw but perhaps it is because I'm a newbie and some setting is wrong? But when I get past about 8 or 9x zoom the image gets very blurry so I can only use it to about 8x.
#10
DrumDude - Posted 8:24 pm PST 12/1/08 (334 Posts)
Price is back to $549.
#8, my quad-core with Sony Vegas Pro should be able to handle it fine.
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maya2008 - Posted 9:52 pm PST 12/1/08 (24 Posts)
How does this camcorder (for the price) compare to others?
#12
cxbucci - Posted 5:54 am PST 12/2/08 (25 Posts)
really good camera, great for mac users out there. not a big fan of J&R, but that's just me.
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cadaver - Posted 11:08 am PST 12/2/08 (2406 Posts)
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Have never had a problem with J&R. Expect noisier results from AVCHD than tape for the time being. SD storage? No thanks. The HV30 is $549 at Amazon.
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