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Samsung SC-HMX10 8GB Flash Memory High Definition Camcorder with 10x Optical Zoom (SDHC compatible) |
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| GREAT |
I paid $380.00 back in july, the video quality is just great, i will say awesome, I know that a lot of us are looking for something exellent when talking about HD, for me the video quality that this camcorder offers is exellent when recorded in 720p the video looks awesome, the 8gb hard drive included with it lets u record 90 minutes of video in 720p HD I bought a 16gb SDHC card and it takes 180 minutes of 720p HD video, what else u need?, I dont know about u but I have a samsung lcd 52" and when I play the video on it, it looks beautiful, you cant go wrong with this camera.
The software included works good and easy to use it, the only thing is that making HD DVDs is not that easy, but I bought several expensive softwares to make hd videos, and I learned that there is not a software for HD VIDEOS that works 100% great yet, so talking about the camera, Its awesome and is worth the money.. I hope this review helps someone.. |
| Dec 28, 2008 |
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| Awesome picture quality. Best bang for buck. |
I'm another poster who purchased at Biglots for only $250. For this price, it has to be one of the best bang for buck video cams period!
720p HD video quality. Flash memory. Super small and light. What more can you ask for? Well, I wish it had a cold shoe,OIS instead of EIS.
If you buy this, it will literally take you 1minute or less to get the camera hooked up to your pc and transfer the video(video transfer takes longer depending on the length)to your pc. I did a short video of my pets outside our backyard. Watching the footage on my pc blew me away. then i edited and recorded to a standard dvd, watched it on a standard dvd player. Once again, I was blown away by the quality of the video.
Don't be fooled by all the reviewers who claim their pc couldn't play the mp4 format. Just download VLC player or mediaplayer classic(both free programs) and you'll be watching your hd videos in no time. My advise is to have a core2duo pc or better with more than 1g of memory. Otherwise you may experience issues with playback and editing.
If you paid more than $500 for this cam, well, not the best bang for buck in your case. Under $300, definitely worth it. Get rid of your old mini-dv cam and join the future of consumer video camcorders. |
| Nov 02, 2008 |
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| Nearly as Simple to Use as the Macintosh Playing Its Movies Now |
This is my very first camcorder. (Okay. I know: I'm culturally deprived.)
Right of the box, it's amazingly simple to use, and for $250, my new Samsung SC-HMX10C (8GB flash drive) was simply irresistible when I bought it twenty minutes ago at Big Lots, just down the street, where the dozen allocated to that store evaporated in a matter of minutes.
After plugging in its external power supply, I quickly and easily shot a few snippets of video and a photo or few, then connected its USB cable to my old, slow (pre-Intel) Macintosh mini, whereupon a Samsung external drive icon popped onto my desktop. I dragged four videos and a handful of photos from the folders in the Samsung drive into a folder on my Macintosh. When I double-clicked a video, Apple's Quicktime sprang to life, displayed the standard H.264 (MPEG-4.AVC) video from the camcorder perfectly (without any of the On-Screen Information that another reviewer misled me to fear would show up in the recorded video).
The SC-HMX10's right-out-of-the-box simplicity is my focus here, because all that I've done is to pull it from its box, plug in its external power supply, switch it on, flip open its huge LCD screen, point it at my wary but curious cats, and press the big red button next to my thumb. When the cats stopped playing games, I simply wanted to see how quick and easy it would be to examine and edit the photos and movies on my Macintosh.
Quick and easy were the words that fit so well.
Twenty minutes out of the box, and everything's looking good so far.
Then I tried two more ways to examine or edit the camcorder's movies on my Macintosh:
1) I opened my old, original version of iMovie on my Macintosh, and dragged one of the video snippets onto its movie clip editing pallette; iMovie played it perfectly, without a hint of a hiccup, on the spot.
2) I plugged the camcorder's S-Video Out cable to the input to my Macintosh's EyeTV Tuner-Recorder, which records an MPEG-2 (DVD grade) video of the camcorder's LCD screen output, while I rummaged among the Samsung camcorder's LCD touch-screen menus and replayed on the camera the video snippets and photographs stashed in its internal flash drive. I like that the camcorder continues to display everything on its own LCD all the while it is transmitting that imagery on its video-out connection to a television or any other player/recording device.
Let me see now. I think there's a User's Guide and a CD in here somewhere . . .
I'll wander back to share some more meaningful impressions, after I've explored the full range of features (and possible problems or peculiar limitations) of this seemingly wonderful video camera.
Stay tuned.
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| Oct 25, 2008 |
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| Samsung HD Camcorer |
This camera was an excellent product for the price. The HD picture, touch screen ease, on camera editing, and built-in memory are all well worth the price. Figuring options out as you go (I'm not much of an instructions reader) was straightforward. Reviewing video either on the camera or on a HDTV was easy.
Warning: If you want to use your videos on a computer, the file type the videos save as (MP4) may not be compatible with Windows type players. You'll need to purchase/download a video converter program to change the file type to something your Media Player can read, MPG for example. Once you convert the file, you can edit or view your videos, burn them to DVD's, or post them on Facebook, etc. I used the Xilisoft Video Converter file. |
| Sep 16, 2008 |
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