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I couldn’t turn it off, and so ended up shooting video that’s frequently moving a little in and out of focus. Shooting in low light, the Camileo P100’s auto-focus became a drawback. Just after sunset, even with plenty of remaining light, trees, houses and other objects that looked very bright an hour before became mere silhouettes, and the auto-focus started adjusting constantly, vainly trying to find the right focal length. However, the video quality degraded rapidly when the light faded even just a little. The autumn reds and greens on the nearby maple trees appeared quite vivid-almost too rich. When I filmed outside of my home, I was struck by how crisp the video looked from such a small camcorder, at least when I filmed in bright mid-afternoon light. To slide off that cover, I have to press down firmly with both thumbs in just the right place (near the case bottom) to dislodge it. Finally, when you need to swap batteries, you may struggle to pop off the battery compartment cover, depending on your hand strength. I spent extra time fiddling with it to restore previous settings after accidentally knocking them off. The zoom’s touchiness compounds this problem.
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I kept accidentally pressing the zoom or wide angle key when trying to take a photo or start a video.
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I first ran into this problem with the back panel’s tightly clustered set of four buttons for zoom, wide angle, photo shutter, and video record. Beyond the comfy pistol-grip, the Camileo P100 can be fussy to work with, especially for people with big fingers. I got almost no warning before the battery died.įinally, the feel-good factor. The battery icon randomly disappeared and reappeared. In fact, when I recorded video, the only icons I saw were for remaining battery life and a time counter showing how long I’ve been recording the current video. I hoped to see more status icons, especially on this large screen, which can easily accommodate more of them. It gave no message indicating that a change had taken effect, nor does it show the current setting on the panel. For example, when I switched video resolution from 1080 to 720 or vice-versa, I had to trust the camcorder actually made the change I wanted. The camera screen sometimes offered too little feedback. Regarding communication, the Camileo P100 is the silent type. A year or two down the line, when they’re revisiting old pictures and video clips, they’ll wish they had the correct date and time to help them figure out where they shot their images. Many users don’t pay much attention to the date/time stamp until it’s too late. Each time I programmed it, it soon fell back to the factory default (, 00:00am). Neither camcorder could retain the correct date and time stamp.