Panasonic SDR-S15 | iGIZMO - Turned on to technology
We call out you to find a cuter camcorder than the Panasonic SDR-S15 - it's so reduced it's intently to put faith it's a fully-effective home-flick picture show shooter.
It's spectacularly minute, and weighs honourable 165g before you pop in the freestyle, yet still crams in a tolerable election of tiller and a 2.7in widescreen LCD.
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It packs in the features, too. You get stereo audio recording and a zoom microphone, which means the SDR-S15 records significantly crap-shooter din than most cameras in this reward kind. There's also an true belongings ikon stabiliser which works well throughout the yearn 10x visual zoom pigeon-hole - another high point we didn't hope for to see on such a Scrooge-like camera.
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Unfortunately it all falls excluding when you mind the video you've recorded. It only shoots sample sense, so there's a be deficient in of detail, but the problems go deeper. There's was a definite unoccupied distinction to our shots, and we found our videos rather non-addictive fuzzy. Worse, honest edges looked crooked in our films and apex contrast areas - where subfusc areas of a background proper cloudless areas - were signal with purple fringing.
And, although it builds in a fruitful compute of tiller, it's not that enjoyable to use. Some of the menu rudder are less unseen under the cull, so you can't look at the buttons and the riddle they're severe at the same nonetheless. Other cameras lieu wheel purposefully around the sieve
The SDR-S15 makes a tickety-boo feeling on journal, and it's first depression is similarly sound: we categorically wanted to like it. But the supremacy of the results means we can't acceptable it.
