1) Battery Life 2) Optical Zoom and Digital Zoom 3) Ease of getting video download to your pc to make copies / dvds. ???
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1) Battery life...less than average. Get a Wasabi second battery. 2) Optical Zoom is pretty good. Digital Zoom....Hey it's digital so it can only do so much. 3. Very easy to get to PC. Very Waterproof so far. Have had it for 8 months now, and it takes some stellar under water video.
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1) Its really long. Lasted around 5 hours with 1 hour of video n rest still shooting.2) Optical zoom is good. But digital is just okay. Picture gets blurred a bit with the D. Zoom.3) Damn easy. Just pull out the memory card and insert in your pc. The cable also works absolutely fine.All in all, a great product. A must have for aquatic-life lovers.
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1) Battery life from the included battery ~800maH is about 50 minutes shooting at 720p at 60fps. I believe it is a little longer when you shoot at slower frame rates like 30fps. I bought a 1200 maH after market battery which took it to nearly 60 min at 60fps. 2) I usually use the camera in more or less bright sunlight outdoors at a pool. So optical and digital zoom is pretty good under those conditions which are generally optimal conditions for most videocams. I have not tried in lower light situations. 3) It saves in mp4 format which is perfect for most applications. I have a SDHC slot on my Mac and it's easy to copy from the SDHC card to my computer and do whatever I want, share or burn DVD.
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1) Battery life from the included battery ~800maH is about 50 minutes shooting at 720p at 60fps. I believe it is a little longer when you shoot at slower frame rates like 30fps. I bought a 1200 maH after market battery which took it to nearly 60 min at 60fps. 2) I usually use the camera in more or less bright sunlight outdoors at a pool. So optical and digital zoom is pretty good under those conditions which are generally optimal conditions for most videocams. I have not tried in lower light situations. 3) It saves in mp4 format which is perfect for most applications. I have a SDHC slot on my Mac and it's easy to copy from the SDHC card to my computer and do whatever I want, share or burn DVD. 1) Battery life from the included battery ~800maH is about 50 minutes shooting at 720p at 60fps. I believe it is a little longer when you shoot at slower frame rates like 30fps. I bought a 1200 maH after market battery which took it to nearly 60 min at 60fps. 2) I usually use the camera in more or less bright sunlight outdoors at a pool. So optical and digital zoom is pretty good under those conditions which are generally optimal conditions for most videocams. I have not tried in lower light situations. 3) It saves in mp4 format which is perfect for most applications. I have a SDHC slot on... » Read More 1) Battery life from the included battery ~800maH is about 50 minutes shooting at 720p at 60fps. I believe it is a little longer when you shoot at slower frame rates like 30fps. I bought a 1200 maH after market battery which took it to nearly 60 min at 60fps. 2) I usually use the camera in more or less bright sunlight outdoors at a pool. So optical and digital zoom is pretty good under those conditions which are generally optimal conditions for most videocams. I have not tried in lower light situations. 3) It saves in mp4 format which is perfect for most applications. I have a SDHC slot on my Mac and it's easy to copy from the SDHC card to my computer and do whatever I want, share or burn DVD. « Show Less
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I'm not knowledgeable enough to be able to provide a technical answer but I can say that it works right out of its packaging on my Windows 7 PC and a 289MB video will save to it in about 11 seconds and a 341MB folder containing 65 photos in 7 different subfolders will save to it in about 27 seconds, and this is all using a USB 2.0 port on my old PC. Probably be even faster using a USB 3.0 but it's fast enough for my everyday use.
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Better a/f for video and more crosstype focus points. Wifi capability better touch screen. Faster fps.
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Been a long time since I used this but it will take a good to reasonable video in a standard office size room. Amount of light will have an effect but it does work in low light. Easiest way to down load is to use a SD memory card that you can remove and download to your computer.
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Records .avi files, something a bunch of MAC video players can handle easily. Playback is simple IMO.
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A fast SSD(check Blackmagic recommendations), a cage or handle, perhaps a video microphone(camera on board audio recording non-usable) and most important an external battery source(switronix)
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The battery life is pretty decent:) you won't regret getting this camera :)
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Juliee, there are MANY picture and audio factors that you can adjust to achieve your own most personally satisfying viewing experience--I'd estimate a total of well over two dozen (without going into the menu to actually count). I was fully satisfied with the range of options. --Winston
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You can view from laptop or download the videos your laptop. Also, you can view it on the unit's small screen.
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Thanks Dale --That sounds great! Almost too easy to be true? I guess the big hang up with those old camcorders was getting the video onto a PC, connections, storage space, firewire's, etc.... I just want to put them on a dvd so this sounds like it would work for me. It is just home video of the kids growing up so top image quality isn't really a concern. The only other question is, what do you think the 'playability' of the recorded disc would be on devices going forward, meaning our PC, parents PC, whatever dvd player we have, etc.....? Any special type of disc to ensure compatability with multiple devices?If I spend hours converting but then can't watch, I haven't really accomplished anything. Thanks Dale --That sounds great! Almost too easy to be true? I guess the big hang up with those old camcorders was getting the video onto a PC, connections, storage space, firewire's, etc.... I just want to put them on a dvd so this sounds like it would work for me. It is just home video of the kids growing up so top image quality isn't really a concern. The only other question is, what do you think the 'playability' of the recorded disc would be on devices going forward, meaning our PC, parents PC, whatever dvd player we have, etc.....? Any special type of disc to ensure... » Read More Thanks Dale --That sounds great! Almost too easy to be true? I guess the big hang up with those old camcorders was getting the video onto a PC, connections, storage space, firewire's, etc.... I just want to put them on a dvd so this sounds like it would work for me. It is just home video of the kids growing up so top image quality isn't really a concern. The only other question is, what do you think the 'playability' of the recorded disc would be on devices going forward, meaning our PC, parents PC, whatever dvd player we have, etc.....? Any special type of disc to ensure compatability with multiple devices?If I spend hours converting but then can't watch, I haven't really accomplished anything. « Show Less
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Easy to use 2.5 inch touch screenShoots 720p HD videosBuilt in battery and built in 7.3 GB of memoryUnder details it mentions even more
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The battery life is good. I have used it to take videos as well as pictures and the battery lasts. The only time I have charged it is when I plug it in to transfer pics to my computer. Otherwise I can get 2 to 3 days of using it a lot and the battery life is great.
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Thanks for the info.Personally, I'm not terribly interested in all of the bells and whistles (like internetTV and wifi capability), but if this can play a good range of video files with varying codecs, it's looking like a good buy. :)
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The benefit of this unit is that it broadcasts in wifi. You connect it to your computer to download movies or pictures then disconnect it and it will broadcast back to your devices through wifi that it creates.
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free mode on:put movie in pc, share the dvd drive, use anydvd to delte copy protection, conect eeepc by network, trasnfer files to eeepc, use media player classic to watch videots folder
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There is software in form of CD. You get Pentax Photobrowser and more. You get a rechargeable battery.
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Rather easy. Biggest decision is whether you want snap shot or movies. Thats just a push of a button. I went with movies. Then you toggle thru some decisions.