Panasonic SDR-S26 SD Camcorder

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• J. Schieffer says:

  March 30, 2010 at 16:04

  OK, I just got this today. Opened it up, charged it. What no memory card in the box!!! Ok, no problem I have a surplus of them. Ok lets see here, I have 4, 8 and 16 gig SD cards from 5 different manufacturers. After 10 minutes of this camera beeping at me and flashing ‘Check Card’, NONE of the cards will work with the camera. At least the jokingly small sized 8mb cards you get with Canon and Sony cameras let you try it out. This is a piece of junk, and they think Im going to spend 80+ dollars on a Panasonic SD memory card? Thats why their cameras are cheap, so you buy their memory cards. Stay away and buy a real camera.
  Rating: 1 / 5
• A. D. Lam says:

  March 30, 2010 at 16:56

  I just don’t know why big name brand companies nowaday are making big buck garbages to sale to the consumers. I was excited with the zoom that this camcorder offers and kind of ignored some of the reviewers’ complains about the video quality. I thought to myself, it’s in digital format, my digital cameras produce pretty decent video, so how bad can a digital camcorder be? I was wrong, the video quality is worser than the first generation camera phone!!!! On a gloomy day light, the video was worst than the VHS camcorder, under the indoor light, the video was barely watchable. It looked ok when you view it on the camcorder itself, but when you exported it to the computer, you will realize it is a piece of junk! The camcorder itself is so light, it feels like the low quality $[...] world camcorder. I would pay $[...] for this camcorder just for the zoom function. This camcorder was not meant for recording video.
  Rating: 1 / 5
• Susan R. Chalikes says:

  March 30, 2010 at 18:02

  We received it very quickly. It is a gift for my son, so I haven’t used it yet, but all parts were there and looked in good condition. Camera is in very good condition and all manuals were included. I was very happy with this purchase.
  Rating: 5 / 5
• F2ck off says:

  March 30, 2010 at 18:08

  Camera is nice and small but needs care if use in the hot summer. I thought the camera was damaged because it wouldn’t shut off without removing the battery, also experience zoom function not working, no picture,shaky focus movements would sometime focus in and out throughout the zoom, once the camera was allowed to cool down all function came back, but still experience focus problems intermittantly, hopefully everything is OK. This camera is good for cool weather, once temps increases becomes unstable.
  Rating: 2 / 5
• M. P. Bleiweiss says:

  March 30, 2010 at 20:52

  Perhaps it is in all of the literature on the web page but it is not OBVIOUS: you must have an sd card in order to operate this camera — having it arrive via fast shipping for some special date is useless as I found out!
  Rating: 3 / 5