Honestly, camcorder Sanyo Xacti VPC-TH1 is pleasant to use. Operation is easy, simple. Physical flat, out of the “standard” which usually stylish Sanyo gun (vertical), so the firm operated with one hand. There are two main buttons on the back of this camcorder: the camera logo on the left side, and bearing a video camera on the right. Press the left to take advantage of TH1 as a digital camera with 2 mega pixel resolution interpolation. If you want to record a movie clip HD (high definition – 1280×720 30fps) in MP4 format (MPEG4 AVC/H.264), press the right button. This dual nature makes Sanyo called Dual camera.
Optical zoom is available here long enough, reaching 30 xs. His smooth zoom, and is done by pushing the zoom lever on the top panel of the unit to the right. Zoom-out is achieved by pushing the lever in the opposite direction. But beware of using zoom, because the shock would be felt when the zoom is opened too big. Image stabilizer that is electronically here will not be much help. The solution, use a tripod to zoom above 5x. Because they are dual camera, TH1 has a lot of settings when working as a digital camera. Options ISO starts from Auto, 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, until 1600.
Red eye correction is also available. While the choice of Scene – so do not bother configuration adjusting exposure and white balance – consisting of Full Auto, Sports, Portrait, Landscape, Night Portrait VEW, Snow & Beach, Fireworks, and Lamp. To focus, available Multi-zone exposure metering, Center weighted, and Spot metering. Exposure consists of Programmed Exposure, Shutter preferred, preferred Aperture, and Manual. While the choice is White Balance Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Incandescent, and One push manual settings.
Special feature here is the Face Chaser, which will sense the human face to be recorded – photos and video – to show the focus. On the LCD display 3 “her, the faces detected are indicated by green boxes. Results photographs and video recordings (for lighting enough) look good and sharp. The colors looked alive, bright. But in the dim conditions, such as in space, the result is less than perfect. White balance takes a while to adjust.
The result, it was seen quite disturbing noise. This is especially when we use the Full Auto setting. This can be a bit tricked by activating the setting in Soft Menu. Unfortunately the contrast is increased, without sharpening images.
Fun, while being absorbed in a video recording us also can take pictures. No need to move to the first camera functions. Simply press the camera button when we are busy recording a moving picture. Or just record the video and the desired frame clip as images in 16:9 or 4:3 formats.
Sanyo HD camcorder TH1 is (high definition) is very friendly compact, easily used by anyone, including beginners. In addition to recording a moving scene, this camcorder can be used as a digital camera. Used as a music player had no problems. Moreover, endurance batteries not disappoint. Transfer to any computer easy.
Be more solid if the gap in the video is being recorded to the SDHC card can also be shortened. Armed with SDHC cards Kingston 8 GB Video, we need to wait 12.34 seconds before it can start recording a video clip again. Therefore, make sure the SD card / SDHC that you choose also supports transfer speeds.
Plus: HD; easy to operate; doubles as a digital camera; bundled video editing software.
Minus: The focus is less sharp when less light; there is a pause while recording to SDHC; optional HDMI cable.
Tags: HD, Sanyo Xacti, SDHC, VPC