Panasonic HC-V770

Advantages: I was impressed by the quality of the picture, the high sensitivity of the sensor (I followed the advice of the video bloggers and unscrewed the color at the minimum while recording - and didn’t lose it, the colors do not go off-scale, but they aren’t dull either.
Great sound quality.
Ability to work from USB power bank (once I forgot the cord for charging - the camera was charged "freelance" through the microUSB connector, without consequences)
Excellent video stabilization is a huge plus if not hung on the lens of filters (see below)
Attachment for additional equipment - light, microphone, etc.
Microphone input
The ability to install filters on the lens (set UV - "from the fingers and dust" and a 6-beam star - more on this below).

Disadvantages: The peculiarity of this camera is how its video stabilization works (apparently, programmatically). If any filter is hung, the corners of the picture will be “cropped” when the camera moves - you will see unsharp black corners pop-up and then disappear in the video ... Trifle, but unpleasant - because of the unexpected, but the video is not to be retaken ...

Comment: In general, the camera is one hundred percent satisfied! You can shoot quite a professional video, without shaking, in bad conditions (I tried to shoot a party at the club - everything turned out unexpectedly high quality, the sensor did not let us down!)
Now I’m thinking - if I don’t buy another one, the same or a younger model, for organizing a two-chamber filming of school parties, concerts and other events in the premises ...

Advantages: The camera is small, compact, light.
The picture quality is good!
Manual settings for white balance and exposure.
The menu as a whole is convenient and understandable.
The cables are all comfortable. USB can charge when the camera is turned off. From the power cord (from a power outlet or power bank) it can be powered in real time (with the battery installed).
Tripod connector.
Included is a plug-in "hot shoe" for connecting accessories.

Disadvantages: Sometimes it makes a bit more dirty on the left edge.Straight to the budget level soap.
As if plastic optics)
About the fact that they write the cover is not, I really thought that the lens is not covered by anything!
actually there are automatic blinds! It does not soar me.
Although I think that automatic blinds are not the ideal solution, because on the other company's old camera, similar blinds on the nn year of operation began to jam and not fully open. Not the fact that there will be something similar, but the risk is theoretical.

Comment: In general, the camera is not bad.
As for the price - it could be cheaper. But then the dollar is to blame)
In well-fed times, such a cell of thousands of 13 is red price.
By the way, about the "similar" model from Panasonic 4K. There are the same shoals with blurred edges, which is frankly unforgivable for a value of the order of 40 thousand. For what is the point in 4K with such a picture quality? In this regard, Panasonic seriously disappointed. But the FHD option, of which we are talking about here, yes, is also washing, but on the whole, the camera is so bad. Not ideal, but quite working.

Advantages: 1. Large optical zoom (20x)
2. The ability to take power from an external battery when shooting
3. For this price category (up to 30000 rubles) - the maximum physical. matrix size (1 / 2.3 ") and pixels (6.03). Therefore, a good picture
4. Fast autofocus (and tracking)
5. Small size - easy to carry in your pocket if necessary. And unobtrusive in hand (if needed)

Disadvantages: 1. The zoom does not maintain the desired position when turned off: when turned on again, it is in the state of maximum angle
2. Sound is written in AAC format (not PCM). Therefore, if you write the sound separately to a recorder and then synchronize (for example, in Pluraleyes plugin) from a video camera, then after synchronization, the video is not loaded into the video editor (for example, in Edius). 3. It is necessary to first transcode, which is very inconvenient (especially when there are many files).
4. Does not write a long file - write splits into pieces of 4.185 GB
5. Weak touchscreen sensitivity
6. Low-power battery - for an hour (but the problem is easily solved with an inexpensive external battery).
7.No viewfinder. In the bright sun without it in any way (nothing is visible on the monitor)
8. Uneasy (unintelligible) control of many functions through the display. Even the menu itself has to be pulled out - it is not constantly on the monitor.

Comment: For the price range up to 30,000 rubles is the best option. However, depending on what tasks there are significant drawbacks.
I mainly shoot concerts on stage, with tripods. For three cameras: Sony FDR-AX53 camcorder, Panasonic HC-V770 and Canon EOS 6D camera (Canon EF 24-105mm f4.0 L IS USM lenses and Tamron SP AF 70-300mm F / 4.0-5.6 Di VC USD). Sound writing to the recorder ZOOM4. I use only autofocus and auto exposure.
Now I want to buy another inexpensive camera (for the purpose: to shoot on an unchangeable long focus). Panasonic HC-V770 almost fits, except for one: the sound is written in AAC format (and not PCM). I do not know yet what to decide

Advantages: 1. Shooting mode in FullHD 50p with a bit rate up to 50 Mbit / s.
2. The presence of Timelapse mode or interval shooting. Not every cell has it. Another good slow motion mode is Slow motion (especially good when shooting flowing water, waterfalls or flying insects).
3. Excellent photosensitivity with a lack of light and elegant color reproduction with sufficient light.
4. There is a heel and a connector for an external microphone.
5. There is the possibility of power from an external energy source (power banks or power supply).
6. An opportunity to wind filters and lens hoods with a diameter of 49 mm onto the lens.
7. Quality materials, Good assembly.
8. The main advantage is a great stabilizer. I shot from a moving car on a mountain primer, and the frame only shakes slightly as a result.

Disadvantages: 1. Poor equipment - there is no hood and lens cap. They are the price of a penny, and at this cost the camera could well be added to the kit.
2. Small capacity of the complete battery - for 1 hour of operation.Buy the original increased for a lot of money? No, this is not our method. Good Chinese factory analogs for the price of 3 times less have already gone on sale. I bought two such "Chinese" and in the same place, on delivery, exercises for them - the third year the flight is normal.
3. Price. The thing is of course good and the price may be consistent with the quality. But still not so much so that you can just "wanted-go-bought." Price makes you think, pick, level.

Comment: I bought the first inexpensive camera for making films about my trekking in the mountains. Specially took not expensive, so that if it was not a pity. But a cheap camera and a picture gave a cheap one. Especially lacked a good stabilizer and sensitivity in the dark. I needed a good camera that satisfies the requirements for picture quality and the one mentioned above. I really liked the old camera on the interval shooting mode, or time-lapse, as it is also called. This also needs to be in the new camera. And now, after a long search, reflection and comparison, the choice fell on this model. As a result, I still go to the mountains with an old camera, and I take this one in "mattress" trips. All the same, it will be a pity if I bang or wet it somewhere in the mountains. The camera paid off completely. Chinese extended batteries last about 3 hours. Chinese charging charges about 4 hours. Two large batteries and one standard battery took about 7 hours of raw material traveling around Tbilisi and Georgia. You can evaluate the quality of this link: https://youtu.be/BsWNjSWXk-s

Advantages: - Stabilizer
- Optics
- Soft
- The convenience of use
- Reasonableness

Disadvantages: - Lack of lens caps and accessories
- Not too capacious battery

Comment: Bought for shooting on vacation.
Everything is good in the camera: there is protection from the wind, so the wind in the recordings is hardly audible.
Good optics - during the day when the optical zoom is still very clear, at night, of course, the sensitivity decreases significantly, but it is tolerable anyway.
The sound is good, everything is audible.
Soft - it is possible to record in the "raw" format for dividing the sound into 5-1.
Photos are also good, given that this is not a SLR.
Stabilizer is good - steps smooths, as well as sharp turns.

I wasn’t happy with the battery - the capacity is small, just enough for an hour and a half of shooting in FHD in mp4.
Also bundled with the camera does not go anything. That is just a camera with a strap and wires :) Ie Separately, we immediately have to pack up the covers (by the way, it costs 50 rubles on Ali, it is not clear why the manufacturer could not include it in the kit).

In general, the camera is satisfied.

Advantages: It works for a long time, but still, if you are a pro then you will not have enough battery. the zoom satisfies, looks like an expensive semi-appliance, there is a filter's ability to put 49 mm, it is convenient to hold a handy when shooting. Not heavy, but voluminous, it seems half empty inside .. strange feeling.

Disadvantages: troubles with the menu is not just to understand the first couple of days there will be questions like? why? Went into me and you can wander around it for about two minutes in search of the desired function and there is a joke that has appeared. functions in me as you choose the modes and the format of the shooting. He shoved a micro-automatic. The viewing angle is narrowed, the mounting of the turning of the screen seems to be unreliable, the backlash is not enough strength. The battery is 3. 15 it was worth the norm. In Europe, it still costs as much as it takes. It is more expensive for us, that's why so much pritenzy.

Comment: shoots well, but there is no limit to perfection, and this camera proves it again. Of the advantages of obvious ones is wi-fi, nfc, mode screen on screen (sometimes a picture lags due to slow data exchange of wi-fi modules) cameras and they take about the same as this -, in general, I will give 4 points out of 5. In general, this is not a breakthrough.

Advantages: Matrix
Good auto tuning
Durability (dropped on the floor with a half meters, the camera is fine)
Output for connecting an external microphone
A separate button for a photo while shooting video

Disadvantages: The battery is about an hour, but is solved by any power bank.
Not the most logical menu - some of the functions work in some modes, in others it does not work and top similar tricks.

Comment: I use more than a year, with all tasks copes with a bang.
For shooting a video blog in an apartment with not very good lighting - the picture is natural, everything is great.
The only time when there were difficulties - in the dolphinarium, a lot of noise on the sound track due to the splash of water in the pool.

Advantages: I am writing about V720:
Better still lies in a big male hand.

Panasonic heard my moanings two years ago and added 1080 / 50p with a 50 Mbps bit rate!

Charging began through the USB adapter, which will power the camera from any PowerBank, eliminating the need to buy expensive extra batteries!

The new processor, or the matrix, which was reduced from 17 to 12mpix, increasing the size of the pixel, is not the point - in low light conditions, it slightly wins over the V720.

For any WiFi pieces, the frame in the frame (with video from a smartphone), video baby and other delights, I apparently too conservative, I do not use, but I will write it in dignity.

The stabilizer was as good as it was and remained, the second mode of frame alignment that appeared was somehow not impressed, subjectively everything is exactly the same as in the V720.

HDR is a strange thing. When enabled, even hybrid stabilization is disabled. It’s okay to not perceive it from the display, and then you can only look at the big screen, think and understand whether it was worth using it, and if so, in which of the two modes.

Disadvantages: A lot of marketing marketing: the descriptions create the illusion of a huge variety of modes, and in fact a lot of things are mutually exclusive. Want a mp4 video? Well then, we'll turn off the 5.1 sound. Want MTS? Well, then you will not be a high bit rate.

The wide angle has become smaller: 29.5 against the past 28, it seems to be a trifle, but if you pick up both cameras, it is noticeable.
If you shoot a lot in the room, you will have to buy a wide-angle nozzle.

The firmware is damp. For example, going into MNL mode and allowing a lower frame rate will not let you out of this mode until you turn off the option in the menu.

Still not all the desired range of modes. Well, make 1080 and 720, for each i and p, and frequencies and 50 and 25. Well, if I shoot in the dark, I don’t have to physically work the shutter for 1/50 sec, why do I need 50p at which frames will be repeated twice?

When shooting at intervals of still the camera forcibly goes to 50i, why do I need two half-frames when I need one full?

In YouTube reviews, people rejoice at Sloumoushen, and in descriptions slips 200/240 fps. They lie. There are 100 (120 in the US) that can be output when converting not to 50p, but to 25p. Again, when it is turned on, a lot of the rest is turned off.

In order to torment the customer with particular cynicism, the developers still limited the number of buttons that can be thrown into the on-screen menu in the settings. Instead of adding one bookmark (and the ability to remove the T-W-Record bookmark), they give the user a choice (exaggerate) or auto-contrast or turning on the lamp (I personally need 5 buttons when I choose to choose any three.

The mode of automatic photographing smiling faces has disappeared. And it was so interesting to watch from time to time that there was a picture taken there.

Comment: Seeing what was going on with the dollar, I decided to update my two-year-old Panasonic HC-V720m, which I strongly advise reading.
Honestly - not impressed.
The most important thing: the choice is not limited to reading characteristics. Download the full manual and read it completely!
By the way, the instruction is also difficult to find for some reason.
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