Sony Bloggie Touch MHS-TS20/S 1080p HD Camcorder | Black

I've had this camera for about a week now and have been loving it ever since. I've used another "flip" camcorder and the Bloggie Touch puts it to shame. Pros: 1. Love the quick on and record. Great for spontaneous videos of the little one. 2. The touch screen interface makes it both useful and fun to use the big screen. 3. The still pictures come out brilliant, when the lighting and focus is good. 4. The battery charges up super fast and stays with you for a whole day of shooting. 5. The image stabilization is good. You can take decent video while walking around and panning too. Note that it is not optical, but electronic SteadyShot stabilization. 6. The lens is very good quality and the pictures are crisp. 7. Really like the "snap picture while recording" feature. I find myself using that feature the most. The video doesn't stall while the picture (full 12M resolution) is being taken and since the focus and exposure are usually locked well while you're in the middle of the video, the pictures come out great. Cons: 1. In low lighting, there is quite a bit of graininess and using the digital zoom makes it much worse. 2. While the lens is good quality, the auto-focus mechanism is really very slow. If you move around the camera too much before focus has locked on, the auto-focus will almost never lock. 3. What I really miss with this camera is a flash. Even a tiny one would help with low light pictures. 4. Minor annoyance: to preview a picture right after you take it, you have to go through at least two clicks. Sony could have designed it so that it always goes to the last picture taken by default, instead of the thumbnail list of all pictures/video on the device. I decided to purchase this camera over a still camera that can do video because: 1. This one is dead simple. One button to turn on, one to take video and one to take stills. This makes it both easy and quick to use. 2. This one can do 1080p video and 720p at 60fps. 3. Its under $200 and is smaller than your phone. 4. Its got internal flash and USB connector - no more SD cards or cables. 8GB is enough to get you through the day before you can come back to your laptop to dump the pictures. I decided to purchase this camera over other ones in the same category because: 1. Its got a big display and the touch screen is fun to use. 2. Its got a better lens system than the others. 3. Its got (some) image stabilization.

Initial impressions very positive: Sleek design Light weight Compact for pockets Touchscreen commands Integrated with Facebook and Picassa for quick uploading Very good video in sunlit or very well-lighted indoors Deal breaker: Indoor video will make the Bloggie auto-focus churn repeatedly if lighting is not bright. Upon replay of video on your computer, you will hear a loud clicking from the auto-focus mechanism throughout the video. I initially thought it was defective. However, after reading other consumers have the same problem, I see that it's an engineering flaw. So, as long as you take video in sun or well-lighted indoor settings, the Bloggie is a nice product. However, the clicking noise will make your average indoor video unusable.

Ok, First of all let me say I have seen a lot of small cameras under $200.00 that claim HD 1080p quality video and all of them do not do this resolution really good. If your buying a camera of this lower level range don't expect a great quality 1080p video unless your in bright sunlight and you hold the camera still or use a tripod, just not gonna happen. If you want quality 1080p get a high end Panasonic or SONY. This camera is wonderful in it's ergonomics and ease of use. You don't need a manual for anything, it even is equipped with it's own internal memory so you don't have to buy a SDHC card. Taking pictures is easy and the quality is excellent. Taking video is also as easy but you will have to hold the camera sideways to get the full 16:9 aspect ratio when you view it on the TV or download to the pc. I have seen people rip SONY for this feature but let me just say get over it. It's not that bad to hold the camera sideways and record video. If you didn't like that aspect of the camera then why did you buy it? I don't find it that terrible to use at all. The menu system is a piece of cake to navigate through and has a good quality feel. I also have the Kodak playsport and i like the camera too but this camera quality wise seems a cut above. The size of the camera make it look like a phone, very cool I think. I have resigned myself to keeping resolution to 720p. I think it looks just as good anyway. I would recommend this camera to friends definitely. Update 03/2012 I am still using this camera and I think the HD quality is amazing in good lighting. I won't comment on low lighting but what camera is? The image quality is excellent and i keep going back to this camera to use instead of a few other handhelds I have. The Kodak Zx3 is another on i have which i think is also good. The video quality i got on a golf vacation weekend was excellent. Update 04/17/2012 Upgrading to 5 stars. The only complaint on this camera is a lazy autofocus but i upgraded to firmware 1.05 and it works better. i liked this camera so much i bought another one.

ただ日本語でないのが使いにくいかなって感じ。 慣れればと言うか覚えれば普通です

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さすがMadeInChina、 遠くの物を撮影するとぼんやり写っているだけ 画像のピントが合わない 製造時のレンズ調整が出来ていないと思われる。 車載用に購入したが、酷いの一言しか言えない。

11月のハワイ島旅行で使いました。ポケットに入れて持ち歩くにはちょっと大きいですが 逆に存在感があり落としてしまうことが防げました。レンタカーのフロントガラスに取り付け 走行シーンもきれいに撮れました。1回の充電で5日間持ったこともポイントですね。 気になる点 ・縦の持ち位置で撮影すると縦長の動画と静止画になります。なるべく横で撮ったほうが 再生時に違和感がないかも。 ・輸入品なので言語設定で日本語がありませんでした。（英語で使用） ・USBでパソコンに接続しただけでは動画、静止画を取り込めない。 内臓のソフトのインストールが必要。 まあ想定内なので問題ではありませんでした。 画質は思ったよりきれい。何台かのビデオカメラ持っているが旅行の記録には十分。 動画命の人は一般のHDビデオカメラにすればいいと思います。 軽さ、持ち回りの良さは抜群です。 8GBの容量も2時間の動画撮れるので問題なし。 いい世の中になりました。1万円以下でこの性能。 お勧めです。

小型薄型（ガラ携帯のケースに収まる） 総画素数１３００万画素 有効画素；動画２０７万画素、静止画829万画素。 メモリー；内臓８GB. レンズF2.8,f=37mm；デジタル４倍ズーム AF.あり。 手ぶれ補正；あり、電子式・ 液晶；３，０型 288,000ドット。 OS;Windows,XP-SP3,Vista,MAC(v10.5-10.6) 64bitは非対応。 ポケットに入れて気軽に持ち歩けるサブとして 珍重。