Sharp VLAH50U Hi8 Viewcam Camcorder
by Sharp

List Price: $399.99
Our Price: $249.95
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Category: Digital Camera
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Digital Photo Product Details

• Hi8 format
• 3-inch LCD view screen
• Digital image stabilization
• Six different digital special effects
• 16x optical/400x total zoom

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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Sharp VLAH50U Hi8 Viewcam Camcorder

Customer Review: Great features for the price, but poor durability
Summary: 2 Stars

And lo and behold, when we got it, it worked exactly as we thought and we got some great memories.

But then the lens cap broke. And it started to jam tapes regularly. And put dots and speckles into some recordings. And after 3 months of use my battery wouldn't recharge anymore. I brought it in for a repair and a replacement lens cap/battery, but 9 months later all 3 problems happened again.

The first repair was under warranty, I paid for the 2nd one. But last month was really it. My sister, who lives 400 miles away from me, had twins around the same time our son was born and we went up to visit them for their 2nd birthday. My wife took (or I should say tried to take) an hour of video of me playing with all 3 boys and another 2 hours of video of all of us going to the zoo together. Well, you know what, nothing came out, because THE TAPE WAS JAMMED AGAIN! Only this time, the camcorder did not give me any message warning me of this during her attempted recording, so we thought all was fine.

So today, 2 weeks before our 2nd child is due, I threw in the towel and bought a Samsung DV camcorder. Cest la vie....I have 2 Sharp TV's that work great (one is almost 20 years old!) so I don't know if I simply got a "lemon" or if their camcorder standards are just lax compared to their other electronics.

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