There is something TERRIBLY wrong with this camcorder. Should I tell you more?
I got this Sanyo Xacti camcorder in January 2009. The price was low and it had good features. However... I only used it a few times over the next few months and the videos looked bad. I thought it was my poor lighting, or technique, or something. Recently I took a bunch of still photos with it, transferred it to my PC and suddenly realized why the videos looked bad. Looking at the still photos it was obvious.
THEY ARE ALL BLUE!
That's right. Every photo & video shot with this comes out BLUE. Ugly, carbon copy ink blue.
I tried to color correct the photos in Windows on my PC, and some of them look ok (Others were beyond redemption - the trees are green but so is the sky, or the sky is purple & trees blue) , but this is not good. My little cell phone takes WAY BETTER looking photos and videos. Even my old 1 megapixel phone takes better vids & photos. The service warranty is only 90 days, so I'm stuck with a very pretty looking camcorder that is worthless. I would never pay $10.00 for this. Just a friendly warning. Avoid this camcorder at all costs.
Oh, the Support at Sanyo was rude, and unhelpful as well. I sent a request for technical support, with details about the photos and videos being all blue and white. Their reply was, "sorry, that's the colors it comes in." They were talking about the outside of the camcorder itself! O-o They didn't even bother to read the details of my support request, they only looked at the title line "videos are blue & white". Typical, but why bother to respond at all?
It took me a week to find out that it would cost me probably as much as the purchase price to fix it, and why would I want to do that? I've never seen this thing take good videos or photos. I'm just avoiding Sanyo products as a rule from now on. Get more detail about Sanyo Xacti VPC-E2 Digital Camcorder and 8 MP Digital Camera (Blue).
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