The category of camcorder is one broad category of the old and new, dynamic and basic offing in the world of digital photography. Choosing the best model of a camcorder can be quiet a mission for anyone specially newbies in the photography domain. One of the best camcorders that we are presenting to you in this review is the Panasonic SDR H80. This one comes with sleek black body. The key merit of the model is that the model has amazing manual controls, 60 GB hard drive and a 70 optical zoom with Stabilization. TO mention some of the quick demerit as though, the Video quality is not the best you can get in the market and the placement of the USB and power input are quiet inconveniently placed behind the battery.
The bottom line is that the Panasonic SDR H80 has the zoom power of a telescope as well as a lot of storage capacity all in a vey handily compact body. Even if the video results are not that thrilling as you would get with some camcorder models what you will love is that the model has an amazing 70x optical zoom with some stabilization. The Panasonic camcorder model has a CCD optical sensor type. You will get this camcorder model at a price range of $339.00 $501.63.
The Panasonic SDR H80 camcorder model is a standard definition camcorder with a 60GB hard drive for storing to a whopping 14 hours of its top and premium quality MPEG 2 video. There s also an SD/SDHC card slot on the side for adding even more storage. Nonetheless the H80 s killer thrust is in is its incredibly very long 70x zoom lens, which as it is intended to , as you can imagine, will draw you very close to your subject while you re very far away. The amazing optical image stabilization, although in reality there’s no amount of stabilization that s going to prevent this lens from shaking when the lens is actually extended during performance which is all built into a sleek and compact body. One of the key downsides to it though is that Panasonic has not even in this camcorder model made room for some better video quality for the H80 s sub $400 price.
With the Panasonic camcorder the controls are more typical for this type of camcorder and nothing is so badly positioned to make using the H80 uncomfortable (though the Record button is a touch too close to the battery). There s a Power/Mode dial at the top back for selecting whether you want to record movies or still photos or play them back. Flipping out the LCD exposes a five way joystick and Menu button on the left side of the screen. If you dread going into menus to make adjustments, Panasonic dots the H80 with several buttons for quickly changing between shooting options. This includes buttons for accessing manual controls, turning on Panasonic s Intelligent Auto (is) mode, and enabling the optical image stabilization (OIS). The last one is particularly handy because you ll want to shut OIS off when the H80 s on a tripod.