Samsung SCD353 MiniDV Camcorder w/20x Optical Zoom review
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Customer Rating for this product : 3.0
Very very disappointing product – S. Robinson – Liverpool England
I bought this camcorder about 18 months and it has always been less than my old Canon camcorder (unfortunately not digital – change) The display is wrong and totally useless in the darkness and twilight. Ideal for sunny days, but otherwise terrible. I come back after 6 months in a drawer the vacation time (still left!) And the LCD does not work. Even if you look through the site veiwfinder, there is no display. As the cameras are so low, itwill be better than replacing the repair. Although I Samsung products in the past, I never buy more loved as a camcorder. They are really inferior and offer nothing but disappointment. Buy something else … We have been forewarned!
LCD DISPLAY QUIT WORKING – BAD QUALITY – A. Bergstrom – California
camcorder at Best Buy bought a year ago. I am based on the purchase of a longstanding belief in Samsung products. The picture quality was terrible. There is no light, it is very difficult to keep focus when you're outside in daylight. The sound quality is very good. But after a year of very light use, finished LCD display. I will never buy another Samsung camera. I called Samsung fee $ 160.00 to fix it. The brand new is $ 200.00. It happens to many people. BADADB.
Basic video plus external mic input – Wesley Elsberry – Williamston, MI USA
I bought the SC-D353 in the 2006 budget with eye because the graduates as my wife and I have a lot of debt and not much in the way of spending money. This camcorder was essentially the cheapest option when I get the video, an external microphone input found.
For the price, the unit offers things I want. I'm looking acceptable, not superb definition video, and it does deliver reasonable video quality, if there is enough light. It is striking, if shortDealing with low light, or when a single subject is lit, but the rest of the image is dark. The autofocus lens system and are not well integrated, if you zoom more than about 2/3rds of the way to the end of the long telephoto lens, autofocus hunting for several seconds before focusing again. I think the goal is to design an optical zoom, but a goal hyperfocal. A zoom lens retains the same through the bandwidth, but a change lens hyperfocal focus change focal length. Inat least, explain why the AF if a fast zoom would be hunting occurs.
About the audio … The microphone is very sensitive, however, and there is a big noise but when the camcorder using the tape drive is just excessive and unusable the internal microphone. I have no memory sticks, so I do not know if the problem disappears when the image on the card. It is good that this camcorder has an external microphone, because it has an urgent need.I used the small, dynamic stereo microphone with a Sennheiser shotgun with this camcorder, and as long as you make either a sufficient distance between the camera and a microphone or a microphone with a good rejection of local noise, should be OK for audio, although its level control tends Help to run a little hot.
The others are correct that the supplied battery provides about one hour of operation when using the viewfinder, a little less if you use the LCD screen. These limitsthe usefulness of the camera, because, as the comments of another point, is the first camcorder itself provided the only survey solution, and the camcorder is off to recharge the battery. You can use the camcorder using the included AC adapter, though, so that some use would be inside near an electrical outlet that is not impossible, but who wants to pull a cord with them while recording video?
The menu offers a range of features that I am moreoccupied by one in the field. It does not save settings so that every time the power, little time to find your favorites. The only feature that requires a button, digital image stabilization, provides only that the button on the automation of decisions by several others. The "DIS EasyQ button does not light, but it also depends on the auto focus and a few other" amateur "functions. If you want, and DIS, for example, manual focus, you must go through the menu do. I have never useddigital effects "parameters. If I need effects, I can apply later in Las Vegas.
Here's what I do with my camera, so they are useful to me. First, I participated in a third party 2250mAh Li-ion battery and external charger, which cost me about $ 20 plus postage. I can use two batteries, but I found little need for the original, since the new battery lasts about two hours, often even with the operation of the LCD active. It is, unfortunately, mechanically disturbCheck with your own eyes to close the viewfinder, but I can use it with the sight returned, as you do, the diopter and access to LCD is generally more useful for monitoring anyway. Secondly, I bought a 30mm to 52mm Step-Up Adapter. This is unfortunately not equipped with the camcorder in perfect condition. There is a raised lip on the front decorative sculpture, which amounts to just under the lens, prevents the flange adapter dormantperpendicular to the lens. My solution: use a Dremel motor tool style out of 2mm or so plastic, so I actually screws into the adapter. I was careful not to go too deep, and that there is a point where I look like a small hole in the public inside. I'm not so worried about what it takes then, but if I produce the pieces of plastic, forget a guarantee have been if you do, too. What are the 52mm adapter brings the possibility of usingHigh quality lens accessories we for our S2 IS camera, which has just bought the Raynox 0.66x wide-angle lens. (I used a 0.8x century, but it weighs a couple of times, what to do, the Camcorder and the new heavier battery.) With the wide-angle lens accessory, I can get a better look at end wide without vignetting, and the zoom feature without excessive hunting during AF telephoto zoom extreme. Thirdly, I bought a micro HT-320A HTDZ a"Unidirectional electret condenser" mic. I'm sucking on audio equipment at low prices misused, but makes the HT-320A for a pleasant surprise. Its self-noise is not bad on my device if not in class Sennheiser shotgun microphone, it also costs about one tenth of what the costs low end Sennheiser. It is certainly a suitable microphone to the pair of SC-D353 camcorder. Between these accessories, I'm much happier with the camcorder you know how it got out of the box. I intendDeploying these items unless a wide-angle lens on a bracket on my Nikon DSLR this summer to demonstrate agility dog, where people often want video of the performance of their dogs as well as photos.
Bottom line: If you're on a budget and are recognizable video video quality is not great, this device, the work done. He certainly is a compilation of compositions for the YouTube video. You should also plan to use an external microphone. I recommend buying aIncrease the capacity of the battery and external charger. If you want to expand your profile with a good quality of accessory lenses, you may need surgery on the camera case.
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