[BLU/Officers] BLU camcorder

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

Sorry, I thought nobody cared to respond. I ordered it earlier today.


On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:28 PM, David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:
> On 06/04/2012 06:05 PM, John Abreau wrote:
>> Hi, guys.
>>
>> The Kodak Zi-8 mini camcorder is not working right. Even at its best,
>> it did a poor job
>> of recording in low-light conditions, and for the past two meetings
>> that I recorded
>> wit it, the video was extremely blurry to the point of being
>> completely useless.
>> I made several attempts to clean the lens, to no effect.
>>
>> I'm considering purchasing a new camcorder. I did a search for
>> low-cost HD camcorders
>> that work well in low-light conditions, and I found that the Sony
>> HDR-CX210 showed
>> a lot of positive reviews. Amazon is currently selling the HDR-CX210
>> for $327.94, and
>> The balance in our checking account is currently 1,979.45, so it seems
>> reasonably
>> affordable.
>>
>> I'd like to hear your thoughts before I decide whether to go ahead and purchase
>> the HDR-CX210.
>
> I'm sorry I have meetings Tuesday and Thursday this week so I don't have
> time to do a ton of research, but a quick search turned up ?mediocre
> reviews calling it flimsy.
>
> Technologically, it seems to be the worst of both worlds, because its
> sensor is SD resolution and it upconverts to HD, so you have huge files
> at low quality.
>
> I'll try to do more research this weekend, if you can wait that long.
>
>
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