Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1

Zitat: Pros: + Stylish and ultra-compact design + good outdoors video performance + 10x optical zoom Cons: - Picture quality suffers in dim lighting - controls are a bit fiddly for people with big hands Despite a poor low-light performance, the Sanyo Xacti VPC-CS1 remains a decent little camcorder. It looks great, comes with some nice features and takes attractive video in optimum lighting.

Zitat: The thin, compact design of the Sanyo VPC-CS1 definitely gives the camcorder a unique look, and its impressive specs make it all the more intriguing. Once you take a good look beyond its hot pink paint job, however, you´ll find the CS1 to be a very disappointing camcorder. The VPC-CS1 wasn´t a total failure in terms of video performance. In fact, that was an area where the camcorder often exceeded our expectations (particularly in bright light shooting). Where the VPC-CS1 exposed its numerous flaws was with its cheap design, terrible handling, and confusing controls. The camcorder also produced lots of artifacting in our tests and its low light image was full of blocky pixelations and blurred imagery. The most glaring issue we ran into was a problem with the camcorder being unable to produce a completely focused image no matter what the shooting situation. Usually this problem affected the left side of the frame, while the right was in focus, but you could attempt to even things out using the camcorder´s manual focus feature. Even with manual focus, however, portions of the image produced by the VPC-CS1 always appeared blurred. In addition to this focus issue, the VPC-CS1 also has very poorly-constructed buttons, managed an abysmal battery life in our testing, and has one of the worst control interfaces we´ve ever seen. The buttons are all too small on the camcorder (due its thin design), and this is never more of a problem than it is with the d-pad buttons that are used for navigating menus and adjusting all manual controls on the camcorder (except zoom). Overall, we cannot recommend the VPC-CS1, no matter how good its specs look on paper. The camcorder has plenty of flaws that make for a frustrating user experience. If you like the fact that the camcorder is loaded with manual controls, we suggest going with the cheaper Sanyo VPC-CG10, which does have some handling issues, but none are as extreme as the problems we had with the VPC-CS1. Whatever you do, don´t settle for the VPC-CS1 if you´re looking for a simple, easy shooting experience—you will be thoroughly disappointed if you do.

Zitat: + Filmt auf SDXC-Karte + Guter Klang - Mäßige Bildqualität - Kein Sucher - Langes Warten nach Aufnahmestopp - Software unterstützt Blu-ray nicht

Zitat: While we feel that the Sanyo Full-HD Dual Camera Xacti VPC-CS1 makes for a great travel camcorder, we doubt it will live up to the expectations of an average photography buff. This is understandable, since the primary function here is to record videos, and at this, it does well enough while offering portability. Photos are decidedly average, noisy and operates rather badly indoors in low lighting. However, if you are looking for a casual camera that can easily capture both photos and videos, the VPC-CS1 might be a decent choice.