Excellent still & movie camera (2 in 1) I've been reasonably impressed with Sanyo's offerings in terms of digital cameras in the past and have used the predecessors to the CG6, including the HD1 and VPC-C6. Both cameras are reasonable, but were absolutely hopeless in low light conditions (ISO400), the CG6 has an ISO of 1600 (finally) giving one of Sanyo's offering standard low light capabilities on par with the other high quality cameras, meaning I could video most of my more embarrassing pub crawls, but not my night club adventures. ...
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/05/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (41 of 41) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Worth the few extra bucks IMHO I've been extremely happy with the new Sanyo VPC-CG65 since I bought it. I first saw the VPC-CG6 (younger brother) at Walmart and instantly loved the small form factor. After doing a bit of research I found the CG65 with is identical except for the H.264 mpeg codec being built-in. I'm an Apple fan and so I knew I wanted that feature! :)
The camera is great, small, fast, handles the large sd cards perfectly. I plan on putting it to great use in a few weeks during summer vacation. S...
[Sanyo Xacti Digital Recorder (VPC-CG65) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/11/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (26 of 26) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Small & very capable, great stills - good video I'm quite impressed, especially with the quality of stills. And there are many photo and video settings that can be changed.
After using the camera for a few hours, I need to work out how to hold it. I have average sized hands and firmly holding the camera is tricky, especially when it's time to push the still or video button. I handled the HD2 and it fits better in my hand, but doesn't fit my wallet.
The flash is weak and is only effective within 6 feet, but that's w...
[Sanyo Xacti Digital Recorder (VPC-CG65) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/21/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (16 of 16) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Blown away by features...but not by implementation I should preface what follows with the statement that I bought this to replace an "ancient" miniDV camcorder - the original Canon ZR, which has less than stellar autofocus and low-light performance. Even so, I enjoyed using it thoroughly, but was getting tired of the weight and, more importantly, the hassle of downloading from tapes to my computer. Even with Firewire, a thankless and time consuming task.
So - tapes were out, and I don't trust hard drives, so HDD was out too. That left the...
[Sanyo Xacti Digital Recorder (VPC-CG65) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 08/17/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (13 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Surprizingly handy, but, hard to hold I must admit that I was skeptical of this camera. It comes in such a small package I was worried that the quality of the photos/video would be low. I have been pleasantly surprized by the quality of both the video and photos. It is really a neat camera and always draws comments. It easily fits in your pocket and is up and running in seconds. My only problem is that with the blessing of its small size is also the problem of having large hands and fingers. Its difficult to figure out a good ...
[Sanyo Xacti Digital Recorder (VPC-CG65) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 09/13/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (4 of 4) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Very practical and convienent camcorder Considering it's small size (it fits in the palm of your hand) I had my doubts about this, but it has turned out to be the best camcorder I have ever owned. At its highest setting it's video quality is excellent, and there is just no matching the convienence of a camcorder that fits in your front pocket and can be brought out at a moments notice and turned on by simply flipping open the LCD screen.
The still picture quality is fine, and the settings menu is easily accessible and sim...
[Sanyo Xacti Digital Recorder (VPC-CG65) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/05/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (3 of 3) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Sanyo VPC-CG65 Digital Camcorder This is the absolutely slickest camcorder I have ever owned. It is very simple to operate, and the instruction manual actually makes sense ! I have made stills, and videos, uploading both to my computer and onto the Internet without a problem. This camera would be a bargain at twice the price.
[Sanyo Xacti Digital Recorder (VPC-CG65) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 01/07/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (3 of 3) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great Hybrid Camcorder. I've had this for about 2 weeks now. WOW! I am really impressed with the video quality of this hybrid camcorder. I have since taken a bunch of videos and burned it to a DVD using the included Ulead software. I was blown away by the video quality. I owned a Panasonic MiniDV camcorder before and you just can't compare the 2. The Panasonic was really dull and bad. On this one, videos are stored in an SD card. I have an 8GB SDHC and it's so easy to take videos and upload them into the PC. N...
[Sanyo Xacti Digital Recorder (VPC-CG65) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 01/16/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (3 of 3) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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I did lot's of research and this one won me over - with good reason :) I looked at just about every camera on the market and this one matched all my needs. For me the hardest part was desiding between the sanyo models, as they have so many that are closely related. It ultimately came down to this one and the HD1A, which are about the same price. th VPC-CG65 won out for two reasons: the h.264 encoding, and the low light image quality. I've only had it for about 2 weeks, so I can't say much about its durability beyond that it is well designed. The only things I was d...
[Sanyo Xacti Digital Recorder (VPC-CG65) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 10/17/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (2 of 2) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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happy with my purchase! I just got it today and started shooting and having fun with my children, video quality is better than I expected, audio is good too and the best of all, my family in south america were enjoying the videos just a couple of minutes after I shot them... the size is unreal and it's really easy to use. I got a 4 GB memory card for 35 bucks, you can't beat that, no tapes or cd's to buy and they only hold 30 or 60 minutes of video, plus you can edit your videos, add text, music, etc... Happy!!!
[Sanyo Xacti Digital Recorder (VPC-CG65) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 12/26/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (2 of 2) Users Found This Review Helpful |