Title: Great video - lousy sound
Product review: Buy the Xacti-C40 for quick, convenient web-cast quality video. This camera is great for making 640 x 480 videos but it is no substitute for a conventional DV camera in terms of image quality.Low light performance is barely acceptable, nothing like as good as my Sony or JVC DV cameras and the image is quite contrasty, so bright, flat lighting is needed for good exposure. Outdoors under cloud or bright indoors works well.Colour quality, grain, smear, etc are all acceptable. Stills are very good with some slight barrel distortion on wide angle.The big failing is the sound. The microphones are virtually useless and I have to almost shout to get any narration recorded while I am filming. Subjects talking to the camera at 1 metre are all but inaudible. There is no external microphone jack so you are stuck with lousy sound unless you have an exceptionally loud subject to film or can separately record sound and add it in post-production.HTHBrian
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