Panasonic HDC-TM700 reviews: Panasonic camcorder

Score 9.1/10 Read 78
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+ This camcorder scores very high on image quality. - It has no outstanding negative points.

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Ease of use	8.9
Image quality	9.6
Battery life	7.6
Weight	9.0
Value for money	8.8
Overall rating	9.1

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Premhanse, Århus in Denmark. Experienced amateur

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: Purchased not long ago, the TM700, is absolutely one of the best HD camcorder on the market.Ease of use, reliable and the recordings are superb. Quite satisfied as regard to quality and price.
Bad points:: May be a tad too light for me.

Ease of use	8.0
Image quality	10.0
Battery life	8.0
Weight	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 25 Jan 2011

Allan, Gillingham Keen amateur

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Quality, size, features,
Bad points:: None that I can think of so far

Ease of use	8.0
Image quality	10.0
Battery life	8.0
Weight	8.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 16 Jan 2011

Hans, Bedford Keen amateur

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: have only just started playing with it, but image quality is excellent. Used to have a budget Panasonic SDR-26 - you really do get what you pay for. The bigger, triple CMOS pays dividends.
Bad points:: battery life does not appear to be the longest with the standard one supplied, but absolutely adequate

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	9.0
Battery life	7.0
Weight	7.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 14 Jan 2011

Ray, Eastbourne Professional videographer

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: All
Bad points:: Nothing

Ease of use	10.0
Image quality	10.0
Battery life	10.0
Weight	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 13 Mar 2011

Sarah, Guildford Experienced amateur

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: Easy to use, good touch screen, good zoom, time lapse function very useful, pre record also useful. Quick start up when using it and the photo and video quality is very good. Very impressed and just what I need. The 50fps function is also good for slow motion playback.
Bad points:: Battery life not amazing, but I expect similar to any other camera. I have purchased extra batteries. Having a little trouble rendering in the quality I need, some clips working fine and others liney but I think that is my mistake, I have been using Sony Vegas 8.

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	10.0
Battery life	7.0
Weight	9.0
Value for money	7.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 10 Mar 2011

Mike, Cambridge Keen amateur

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: I bought one of the first Panasonic 3CCD cameras some time ago and it is still going strong, giving excellent results. This one is, however, so much better - smaller, lighter and intelligent. Being able to identify a face and keep it properly exposed and focused automatically is brilliant. No more back light swamping the scene.
Bad points:: Editing software is clumsy to use and pretty slow.

Ease of use	10.0
Image quality	10.0
Battery life	10.0
Weight	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 04 Feb 2011

Trevor, Melton Mowbray Keen amateur

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Quality of video at 1080/50p is excellent and works well in intelligent auto mode.
Plenty of options to change mods and settings.
Bad points:: Capacity of supplied battery not great but i guess that's normal for most camcorders.
HDMI mini cable not supplied as standard.
Digital zoom especially at x700

Ease of use	10.0
Image quality	10.0
Battery life	7.0
Weight	9.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 02 Feb 2011

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Product Features

Resolution quality	Full HD
Resolution quality can be standard definition (SD), High Defintion (HD) or Full High Definition (HD). SD camcorders will have 480 horizontal lines of resolution whereas HD camcorders can have up to 1080. The more lines of resolution you have, the sharper your video will look. Full HD refers to camcorders that record in 1920 × 1080 resolution.
3D	No

Optical zoom ratio	12
The amount by which the camera optics (lens) can bring the subject closer.
Media format	Memory card
This is the type of storage that your digital camera or camcorder uses to save images to. The main types of card media format: Compact Flash Micro SD MMC (Multi Media Card) SD Card (Secure Digital) SDHC (Secure Disk High Capacity)
Connections	USB

Type of memory card	SD

Type of memory card	SDXC

Type of memory card	SDHC

Shape of camcorder	Horizontally held

Digital zoom ratio	700
Not to be confused with optical zoom, digital zoom enlarges a portion of the image thus simulating optical zoom. In doing so, some image quality is lost.
Type of image stabiliser	Optical
If a photo is taken at a slow shutter speed, or at a long focal length, the effects of ‘hand shake’ will be amplified. Some cameras come with built-in image stabilisation which is designed to act against this to produce sharper images. It’s great for low light shots without a tripod, like at a gig.
Widescreen recording	Yes
Resolution (Megapixels)	9.15

Hard disk capacity (Gigabytes)	32
Hard Disk capacity is measured in GBs which stands for Gigabytes. A gigabyte is 1000 MB or megabytes. The more GB you have the more info like photos and music you can store.
Shortest shutter speed (Fractions of a second)	1/8000
This is the fastest speed at which the camera can take a photo. Faster shutter speeds really freeze the action and are great for sports photography.
Weight (g)	380
The weight of the product in grams.
Screen size (Inches)	3.0
Screen size is measured diagonally from corner to corner.
Maximum aperture telephoto	2.8
Maximum aperture wide	1.5

Lowest focal length (Millimetres)	38.8

Highest focal length (Millimetres)	466

Type of chip	CMOS

Release date	2010-03-10
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.

Also known as: HDC-TM700, Panasonic HDC-TM700K

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