Hitachi DZGX5020A DVD Camcorder with 30x Optical Zoom | 
| Brand: Hitachi
Category: Photography
List Price: $449.95
Buy Used: $99.99
as of 8/1/2010 01:49 EDT details
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New (3) Used (11) Refurbished (1) from $99.99
Seller: mistermoney-hq
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 6373
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Optical Zoom: 30
Display Size: 2.7
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 3.6 x 2.5
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: DZ-GX5020A
Model: GX5020A UltraVision
UPC: 050585223875
EAN: 0050585223875
ASIN: B000LWXUP4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Multiformat+ compatibility; support for DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, and DVD+RW | | • | Photo Capture from DVD | | • | 2.7-inch widescreen LCD screen | | • | 1-second quick start | | • | Cinema Res image processing |
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Product Description
680K pixel CCD sensor 1500x digital zoom 16:9 widescreen recording for all DVD formats Photo Frame Grab converts any video frame into still photo Quick start1 second start time from power-on to record-ready One touch finalize button Uses SDTM memory cards Includes Li-Ion battery, AC adapter/charger and cable, DC power cord, S-video and composite and AV cables, shoulder strap and lens cap Weight: 3.4 lbs.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 11
 Waste of Money!! July 3, 2010
C. Watts
Battery life is horrible! Formatting discs are a nuisance. Very disappointed!
Beware before buying!
First Video Camera May 20, 2010
John Erickson (Los Angeles, CA (USA))
The 5020A is a first timer camera that is going to make home videos of the usual travels, family outings and such. It's actually fairly easy to use and you can use a variety of recordable mini-dvd's. I use the regular DVD-R which are the least expensive and allow the least editing in the camera, but that's me.
SPECIAL NOTE: As mentioned in previous review
DON"T LOSE the battery charger and cord that comes with this camcorder. The camera must be hooked up to a wall plug using the charger converter to run the camera in order to "finalize" the disc so you may view it.
In daylight and bright light the picture is reasonably good but not spectacular, it does not deal with low light very well at all, so indoors or at night you will probably need some type of external and fairly strong light source to record a decent picture. (My Sony 8mm had much better low light capabilities.)
It will on occasion have "disc errors" during recording, you can have the camera rewrite the disc to correct but it is best done if using the wall plug. I segway to another fresh disc when this happens and do corrections at home later. Seen it most with HP brand discs.
For better picture compositions get a wide angle lens/converter as it has a narrow field of view.
It's pretty convenient but definately will frustrate a seasoned videographer. So for the money it's ok, but I doubt I'd select this one again. I will upgrade next time.
 Good Value April 7, 2010
S. Zuercher (Ohio - USA)
Have had this camera for over 2 years. Takes great pictures if you use the best quality setting. The only problem there is that, at least with the disks I have, there are only 19 minutes per disk at this quality. This has not been a major problem as we use it mostly for vacation video and we do short clips anyhow. The disks that I have are re-writable, so we have used them over and over. After many rewrites the camera can be somewhat fussy about re-formatting them. But we have used the same 12 or so disks for the last 2+ years and and only 3 of them have bit the dust the rest are still recording great video. We love that we can record 16:9 and with that setting fill our whole 40" TV screen with stunning video. It has a great zoom and we have been able to capture great pictures of wildlife at a distance. We love the color view finder and that we have the option to use this in bright sunlight. It is small, but lage enough to be able to hold and reach controls easily without undue shaking picture trying to get to zoom or stopping recording. Captures sound well. We have not checked into the settings well so it may be user error, but it does not do as great in low light. We like the digital recording. The recorded disks, if finalized, can be played directly back on some DVD players.
 Poor quality November 14, 2009
xjan (Boston, MA)
I got thic DVD cam as a gift and am very unhappy about it. I wish I could return it. It has multiple problems like reading disks, finalizing disks, poor picture quality and so on. I would not reccomend it.
Quirky Camera - get something different January 9, 2009
Michael Elling (Two Harbors, MN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Has trouble with disc formating and playback in general, not to mention the quirky steps needed to "finalize" a dics to be played elswhere or transfered to your computer you need a special cord, which plugs into your battery charger of all things, and then from the charger into the wall. If you loose that cord like I have - you're screwed, you can't any movies out of the camera - the discs won't play in any dvd player and you are just SOL.
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