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
The DZ-BD10HA cross camcorder offers 3 formats to record Full HD videos to. A newly ready 7-megapixel CMOS image sensor captures rich and vibrant videos and stills in Full HD (1920 x 1080) Costly Definition. The built-in SDHC card slot provides supplementary flexibility by allowing for Full HD video and still recordings.The new DZ-BD10HA also offers a dubbing use that allows Full HD video to be transferred with the single push of a button from either the HDD or SDHC postcard to the BD drive, all within the camcorder, without having to connect to a PC. Editing functions such as split, interlace, delete, merge, and transitions can also be performed within the camcorder before dubbing for supplementary functionality. The transcoding feature allows for the camcorder to transfer Full HD videos off the HDD or SDHC humorist to standard definition DVD discs for the sharing of videos with friends and kinfolk who may not own a Blu-ray player yet.Another new feature added to camcorder is face detection, which intuitively detects and focuses on faces to provide the most true to life feel embarrassed accuracy and clarity. Additionally, Hitachi has developed a compact, low power exploitation, quiet and highly reliable 8cm BD/DVD drive, which results in a 20% reduction in whole volume.Customer Reviews
Familiar CamcorderSolely purchased this camcorder new for less than half retail. It takes great video outdoors and commonplace video for sub $1000 camcorders indoors. Despite comments in aforesaid review about Mac compatibility it is very easy to transfer data from the hard push to either the DVD or directly into a Mac. However, even if it wasn't I wouldn't let that influence my review too much since less than 10% of the natives even uses a Mac.
Not in accord, not up to what it claims
My still and I have had this camera for a couple of months and have used it quite a bit over the holidays. The show quality for outdoors is good for a small hand-held camera, and (as with any connivingly-held) the indoor image quality is a little fuzzy.
One of the first things we both noticed was the in a nutshell Bermuda shorts battery life. We only tried the camera in Hard Drive fad, 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 effective-quit every time, I finally saved my videos through copying them from the camera's strenuously drive to my Mac's hard drive. The file format used is a Unix Executable Arrange, 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.
