Panasonic Palmcorder PV-DV953 camcorder

"The sound is not the best, but not bad either, the zoom mic is a waste of space IMO..."

"The sound from the close surroundings is good..."

"But, it's been an overall good experience for me..."

"I also looked at some of the cameras under a grand, and some of them looked pretty good but I wanted to get a three chip, if I could, so I narrowed it down to the PV-DV953 and it's baby brother the PV-GS70..."

"I'd been wanting a good DV camcorder for quite a while so I opened the box..."

"I cant mention the name because of the rules here but after fooling around with this camera..."

"This cam is a dream come true, it really rocks, no kidding! Now, most of the folks here and on other dv sites whine about bad low lite performance of this cam..."

"Good color on video - very good but not dramaticlly better than 1 CCDs Even in the best light the optics yield a picture you'd expect out of a disposable - not nearly as good as my Minolta Xi 2 mp..."

"Color is good but picture is not crisp, even..."

"3CCD's, compact size (for the features), remarkable picture quality..."

"9 mode does not look right when played on a 16:9 TV I wanted to replace my analog camcorder with a good quality digital camcorder, and the most important requirement was video quality in 16:9 mode..."

"I sold my DV953 after a few weeks..."

"Excellent video clarity, the 3 chips are put to very good use..."

"Good manual control for white balancing and focus etc..."

"My footage looks as good as some of the footage produced by higher end cameras at my school..."