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5 Reviews for Panasonic - NV-GS60 - Mini DV Camcorder
Great for the Price - 30 Mar 2008
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
As I wasnt sure how much I would use a camcorder I just wanted reasonable images without paying a fortune. After its first use I was pleasantly surprised by the results. Images outside are great although they do suffer from being a bit grainy in poor light. A small price to pay for paying such a small price! Transferring to PC is easy though you do need to buy a firewire cable but this costs about £5. It comes with cables to play your images on a TV though. The cam comes with a 45 min battery so I purchased another one - reasonably priced direct from Panasonic although you can risk it and buy cheaper unbranded ones.
The cam is very easy to hold steady as it is well designed to fit the palm. Sound quality is suprisingly good too. Its first use was at an international rugby match and the bands playing the national anthems is well recorded.
Controls are also well placed and easy to use.
It hasnt got the depth of functions though can be used in auto or manual mode. But we just want to press a button for it to record.
So if you just really want a cam that is very good at point and shoot and you do not want to pay a fortune for it but want one that has a good name and is well designed you could do alot worse than go for this one!
Excellent value - 01 Mar 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Just bought this from my local Sainsbury's who have these for £118 - just a little cheaper than Amazon at the moment 1/03/08.
The value is excellent - understand this is not a top of the line High definition camcorder it is a basic easy to use, easy to carry piece of kit. Certainly very easy to get both this and a small digicam in the same easy to carry bag.
The picture quality is more than acceptable - though noticeably poorer than the previous Panasonic camcorder I had but that cost a lot more than a £120!!. It is certainly better than indicated in a previous review claiming it is worse than a mobile phone - I'm afraid that is very wide of the mark.
Works a treat with the video capture function included in Windows Vista though for some reason I get an irritating sound 'click' right at the end of the capture. It only happens there not on any stops or pauses in the video - it is not on the tape itself so I am working on the basis this is a PC/Vista issue and nothing at all to do with the camera. It is easy to edit out using Windows movie maker so its no big deal.
Note as in common with many other camcorders you do not get a Fire-wire cable included - they don't cost the earth, even when buying a good quality one so I don't really count this as an issue. I had one anyway so not a problem for me.
The controls are a breeze, particularly the thumb operated joystick from which you control all the main functions.
The only neg I can find is the start up time when in recording mode - it does seem to take longer than my previous Panasonic model which served me well for nearly ten years.
I am amazed at how small camcorders have become - even DV ones like this - my previous one was significantly bulkier than this dinky little thing. Any smaller and I would think it would be quite difficult to handle - the size is perfect for my largish hands.
You also get a number of pre-set scene options which is handy or you can just point and shoot.
All in all I am very happy so far - it is early days but I remain a big fan of Panasonic products which I general find to be durable and reliable - I'm hoping for the same with this.
Panasonic GS60 - 10 Feb 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful.
Bought my Panasonic GS60 camcorder from Amazon. I read all the reviews, looked at the Sony, the JVC, and finally went for the Panasonic. I'm glad I did! It's a great camera, compact (it will fit into a large pocket), very well made, nice looking, and easy to use. The sound and picture quality are both very good. One of the best features is the excelent wide angle lense, great for inside shots.
Minus points (and at this price I'm being very picky) no where to attach a light, and it doesn't take a memory card (which I never use anyway).
Thanks for your review Dave!
Great budget camcorder - 06 Feb 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful.
Good points are excellent, vivid, accurate outdoor colours, effective image stabilisation and totally intuitive usage. The night vision facility is a poor gimmick, but who wants this anyway? No external microphone input, but again, you can live without that. Handling, build quality, weight and range of optical zoom are all great. Bought Amazon's cheapest firewire card and lead for my PC at less than a tenner, so downloading for editing is a doddle. Make sure you have a big hard drive for the video files.
The guy who thought it worse than his mobile phone cannot be serious!
Panasonic NV-GS60 Camcorder - 17 Jan 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful.
This is my first review i have ever written, i either dont have the time or cannot be bothered to write reviews but having purchased this camera yesterday i was so anoyed and disgusted by its recording quality that i felt i had to. I feel like i have been robbed and i dont want anyone else to lose their money. unfortunately where i bought it from want accept returns on camcorders so im stuck unless a fault occurs within 30 days.
DO NOT BUY!!!!! Having read the reviews on Amazon and other sites I purchased this camera yesterday and having used it The picture quality is diabolical my samsung phone takes better video. I know its a budget camcorder so i wasnt expecting proffesinal results but i would never have guessed it would be this bad.
I was dubious when i saw this camcorder as the lens looked too small compared to other camcorders in the store and this gave a feeling of low quality but i still went ahead due to the positive reviews i had read namely on this site.
I am realy angry how others including the reviewer on this site can give 5/5 for recording quality.
The recording quality is worse than terrible, images are very grainy in indoor use. I cant understand how the other reviewrs have given anything above a 1 star for this cam, it could possibly be that for this cam to give any accepable image it needs a lot of light, there is no way indoor lights will be sufficient.
When it comes to the night mode it gets even worse. The image is hardy visible and frame rate fluctuates between 1 to 5 fps. Why has panasonic even included this I cant guess.
If you are considering buying this cam go and test it first otherwise you may as well throw your money away.
For image quality i wouldnt even give this camcorder 1/5 but there is nothing lower.
BOTTOM LINE USE YOUR PHONE TO RECORDR VIDEO ANYTHING IS BETTER!!!