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I bought the camera from BPM-Power a few days, and the first impression is very positive, do not expect indestructible materials, the room is small and light, some details seem a bit ‘delicate’ plastic ‘, but the performance and functionality they look really interesting. On the other hand, manageability and ergonomics are of great levels.

Obviously we can not evaluate a product in a few days, but the first impression is that we need a little ‘getting used to the layout of menus, not always very intuitive, on the other hand, the functions and settings are so many available, and offer a wide range of intervention and regulation. If not then you want to work too hard there is always an effective function Ai, fully automatic, which seems to do a good job in most situations.

Very good generous Leica lens (46 mm), with convenient automatic lens cover. Finally a decent wide-angle camera with an opening, only the Sony 550 VE is a little better in this respect. The 12x optical zoom works fine, the command is comfortable and progressive, the extra zoom 18x digital is surprisingly almost perfect, forget the 30x, 700x’s I will not even talk. Just as I’m not talking pictures: discrete, but who wants to take good pictures you’d better take a good camera at half the price.

Very effective stabilization, with two levels (normal and AD). Useful and convenient multi-function dial for manual adjustment purposes. The LCD monitor will not be the best, but it seems to me more than decent, as well as the electronic viewfinder, useful when shooting in bright light, a little ‘uncomfortable (not adjustable), but much better than nothing, which is just that offer the most current camcorders.
A couple of goodies: the interesting ability to record video capturing a frame every 1, 10, 30 …. second, perfect for slow speed sequences, of course, or for creative effects of accelerated motion. Very useful also the Pre-Rec function to capture moments of which one can not predict exactly the beginning: no longer need to record 30 minutes flat sea just to be sure of catching a jumping dolphin, point the camera and press the Rec when you see the event: the camera will record in memory even before the 3 seconds.

There are different recording quality: very good the standard (interlaced) to the highest quality (HA, 17 Mbps), tablets decent ones, but unless you are really short of memory, I see no reason to use them. Really excellent quality of the footage in full HD progressive (1080/50p), but be careful, then edit it can be a big problem, the supplied software, as well as a very basic editing, will allow you to convert AVCHD to Standard. In general, however, remember that AVCHD editing is much more resource hungry (HW and SW) of the good old DV.
In difficult light conditions or poor auto white balance can be difficult and will widen the image a bit ‘, but really accettabilissimi levels, and much better than I had before from Canon DV: Of course, you can get better, but be prepared to spend 4 times the price of the TM700.

The camera heats up a lot ‘during the operation, for those who were concerned about the cooling fan, well, you can barely hear, and registration is very difficult to perceive, but if you are manic sound you can always take a microfonino external (supplied There is a convenient messenger portaaccessori). By the way, is one of the few camcorders that enables good sound adjustments (and video).
The included battery lasts about 1 hour, buy one spare, double capacity, but beware, the original Panasonic (VBG260) costs 120 €, and many of those flights are not recognized by the camera and need a charger separately. They are, however batteries “decoded” with a chip that makes them compatible, less than one third of the price Panasonic will come when I’ll see if it works. Less than 10 € there are also mini-inverter 75 W, useful for charging car battery dall’accendisigari.

A pair of 32 GB SDHC card (just a good class 4) will provide 5 to 8 hours of recording in addition to the 32 GB built-in memory. Useful in some cases, a mini tripod to keep the stock market: the Chinese for 10 € and 5 cm are fine. We must also add an HDMI-miniHDMI to see the clips on TV, instead of the USB cable is supplied.
For more impressions need a little ‘more time and a few more tests … but at the moment I would recommend it without reservation.

Panasonic HDC-TM700 user review

I am not going to ramble through the amazing technical specifications of this camera, if you want that, have a look at the website.

When I set out to buy a camera, I had only 2 criteria that needed to be met:
1> It must be idiot proof
2> The picture should look like the “Home Movies” people shoot in the holywood movies

1 – If you set this camera to auto it is simply a dream to use. I know very little about manual settings but flipping that auto switch makes it easy for me to use. It adjusts to ligt and dark very well and with the face recognition I can program my wife’s face into the camcorder and it will make sure she always in focus, even in a crown of people.
2 – The picture is simply stunning, I hardly ever shoot at 1080p as the files are very big to edit and copy but even in the much lower resolutions the picture quality is awesome. We view the videos on a 50″ 1080p telly and they look on par with many pro Blu-Ray discs.

You have shell a big chunk of change for this camera but if you want quality, you can’t go wrong.
The only reason I did not give this a perfect rating is Panasonic taking the mick with the price of spare batteries. £99 for a high capacity (2 hours) spare! You can buy cheap alternatives but they do not work properly as Panasonic has copyrighted a chip in the battery that tells the camcorder what power level the battery holds and ID’s itself to the camera.

Oh, and a final thing, the camera is good enough to replace your compact, so you only have to carry one gadget when on holiday:)

Panasonic HDC-TM700 video review

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