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1. 

   Roy
   April 26th, 2010 - 00:01

   I have one and Panasonic doesn’t have driver or processing downloads for it or even respond to requests. The proprietary video format requires special handling in your PC and can leave you with a camera full of useless clips. Are they abandoning this product? Look on the Panasonic website and see for yourself.
   Rating: 1 / 5
2. 

   Paul E. Paschetto
   April 26th, 2010 - 02:57

   If you want quality video, if you want to edit using a program other than the minimal one that comes with the camera, if you want to video indoors under normal indoor lighting, then this is not the camera for you. But, if most of your shooting will be done outdoors and you don’t plan on doing any significant amount of editing then this is an easy camera to carry around and it does a pretty good job of point and shoot. By the way, the video files on the sd card can only be viewed by the included Panasonic software.
   Rating: 3 / 5
3. 

   Steven Johnson
   April 26th, 2010 - 04:31

   I don’t like to take video for many reasons. You end up with a lot of bad scenes in the middle of the tape, if you review the tape you have to forward to the point where you can begin taping again and it takes far to long to transfer the video to the PC if you want to burn it to DVD. This camcorder solves all those problems. Because of random access of the SD flash media, scenes where you accidently filmed your leg for 10 minutes and didn’t notice it till later can be deleted on the fly. It automatically begins to record at the end of the series of scenes so there’s no fast-forwarding to find the spot where you can record again. And copying the video to your PC is as easy as pulling out the SD card and plugging it into your computer. You can begin burning a DVD immediately. Now I don’t hesitate to video. With 3 CCDs, quality is much better than the previous few single-CCD miniDV camcorders I’ve owned from JVC, Sony, and Samsung, particularily the white balance and color correctness. On a big screen TV the difference is very noticable. It is dead silent when you video something. With a 4 GB card (which only cost me $29) I get about an hour of video at the highest quality setting. This means an hour worth of high-quality taping will copy to a single current generation DVD. The video camera is very small but feels very high quality and substantial. I ordered this from J & R and they did a great job getting it to me as promised and I paid a very reasonable price.
   Rating: 5 / 5
4. 

   Meiri
   April 26th, 2010 - 06:59

   I enjoy this camera alot.
   
   Friendly and photo video even in very low light conditions.
   
   High quality video is eventually going on the tv or computer.
   
   I have some problems with taking out the movies using the program but it’s simple to copy the movies through the micromate reader.
   
   I think it’s the best product I have ever bought.

   Meiri
   Rating: 5 / 5
5. 

   Naushad A. Virji
   April 26th, 2010 - 08:57

   I took quite some time in deciding which camcorder to buy. I wanted one that was small so it would be easy to take with me. I also wanted to stay away from tapes because I think it’s much easier to organize videos on the computer rather than labeling and storing tapes all the time. This camera is wonderful for general use. It takes good video and good pictures. I highly recommend it for recording personal events.

   The one thing that I did not like was the software that came with the camcorder. In my case, it does not copy the video onto my computer properly. It will not let me organize the videos so I can find what I want later. I’m irrated that such a nice camcorder comes with such terrible software. I’m currently using Windows Explorer to copy/paste the videos into folders that I’m naming based on the events.
   Rating: 4 / 5

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