Hitachi DZ-BD10HA - Camcorder - widescreen - 7.0 Mpix - optical zoom: 10 x - HDD : 30 GB - DVD-RAM (8 cm), DVD-R (8cm), DVD-RW (8 cm), mini BD-R, mini BD-RE
List Price: $1,199.95
Description
7.0MP CMOS sensor offers 1920 x 1080 for video set-up (16x9) and 6.22MP (effective) for still photos (4x3)240x digital zoom16:9 widescreen aspect recordingBuilt-in 30GB hard drive allows video recording up to 4 hours 20 min. in Full HD qualityEasy 1-impassion dubbing with 4x speed from HDD to Blu-ray disc without the use of a PCSD /SDHC memory cards (up to 4GB) can be toughened to store still photosOne 8cm Blu-ray disc is capable of recording approx. 1 hour of 1920 x 1080 Full HD video11 essentials in 9-group 17-sided multicoat lens 3 1/8" W x 3 7/16" H x 5 1/2" DUses SD /SDHC respect cardsIncludes Li-Ion battery 8cm BD-RE disc USB cable AV cable remote oversee unit battery for remote disc cleaning cloth and softwareCustomer Reviews
Eminent HD Hybrid Camcorder, Great Price!I am very satisfied with the edge of Hitachi DZ-BD10HA Camcorder. It is the only HD hybrid camcorder on the market that offers recording on Blu-ray disc, harsh drive and memory card. You can copy the recorded video between all three of them within the camcorder. I mainly record my video on the hard drive and then back it up on Blu-ray disc right favourable the camcorder. So far no problems. The HD video quality is great!
Proficient Camcorder
Well-founded purchased this camcorder new for less than half retail. It takes great video outdoors and average video for sub $1000 camcorders indoors. In spite of comments in previous review about Mac compatibility it is very easy to transfer details from the hard drive to either the DVD or directly into a Mac. However, even if it wasn't I wouldn't let that influence my inspection too much since less than 10% of the population even uses a Mac.
Not on the same wave length, not up to what it claims
My keep and I have had this camera for a couple of months and have used it quite a bit over the holidays. The prototype quality for outdoors is good for a small hand-held camera, and (as with any accessible-held) the indoor image quality is a little fuzzy.
One of the first things we both noticed was the discourteous battery life. We only tried the camera in Hard Drive state, I can't imagine the poor battery life when recording to BluRay.
However, my highest disappointment was that Hitachi had claimed its Mac compatibility. After several attempts to upload through iMovie and having to wrest-quit every time, I finally saved my videos through copying them from the camera's energetically drive to my Mac's hard drive. The file format used is a Unix Executable Case, an .MTS file. This file is not compatible with the Mac OSX system.
Needless to say, neither my husband nor I am happy with this camera.
