📷 High-Definition Capture with Panasonic HDC-TM20 SD & HDD Camcorder (Silver) Review

This is our first camcorder purchase and we wanted something affordable with lots of good features. The camera is great, the size is perfect and it has a lot of impressive features. However, if you use them indoors a lot, forget about this camera. If you don't have fantastically bright lighting, you'll have poor image quality. In fact, the image quality is so poor that I wish we had a different kind of camera that didn't look so distorted and pixelated. On the other hand, if you take the camera

This camera is good for home video in not very difficult conditions, but not for more. Works great in automatic mode. Although the camera doesn't have a viewfinder, the LCD is bright enough even in the sun. The camera can even adjust the brightness of the LCD to suit lighting conditions. Switching on is very quick and the automatic lens cap is very convenient. The touchscreen is useful for spot AF, known as tracking AFAE. This means that the camera will attempt to spot the subject in situ and…

I am not an expert on video equipment and have no experience with analog products of this product. I wanted to stabilize the image as I have a slight tremor in my right hand and have read in several places that Panasonic optical image stabilization is very good. Other competitors have electronic image stabilization, which I assume is similar to digital zoom. not the real thing. Anyway, I wanted a hard drive AND an SD card slot in case the hard drive ever failed. I needed a good zoom and 16x is…