Creative Labs Vado VF0624-CYAN HD Pocket Video Camcorder 3rd Generation, 120 Minutes – NEWEST MODEL
- High definition 720P pocket video camcorder with 4GB of video storage capacity
- Fits easily in your pocket purse or the palm of your hand
- One touch recording with a spacious 2 inch display and touch capacitive buttons
- Record up to two hour of HD video footage at 30 fps
- Works with PC and Mac
Product Description
Catch the perfect snowboarding stunt, your baby’s first steps or your kid’s graduation, share it online and save it for a lifetime with Creative’s new Vado HD Pocket Video Cam. The third generation of Vado HD camcorders introduces a sleek new industrial design, the latest Vado Central software, improved light sensitivity, optional stereo microphone input, and availability in multiple colors. The thin, lightweight Vado HD is small enough to fit easily in a pocket, purse or the palm of your hand, and it captures video in 720P high-definition quality video at 30 frames per second with just the touch of a button. Sharing videos online is simple with built-in software that helps you post videos to YouTube, Facebook,… More >>
Creative Labs Vado VF0624-CYAN HD Pocket Video Camcorder 3rd Generation, 120 Minutes – NEWEST MODEL
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I am an expert what it comes to gadgets and technology. I have had many digital cameras, camcorders, camera phones and so much more over the years. This is the most unintuitive and hard to use device I can remember.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Upon opening the cheap feeling packaging, I found the camera to have a cheap look and feel, but maybe that’s after being used to iPod Touches and iPhones. Looking on the device, it has a screw hole for a tripod, a headphone jack, a power button, a video/photo button, trash button, mini-HDMI port and a nicely designed fold-up USB “cord.” On the front is a record button and plus, minus, fast forward, reverse and play/pause places to touch.
USABILITY
Turning it on, I found the letters and graphics to be very cheesy, like an 8 year old digital camera. Taking a video was straightforward. Figuring out how to watch it took some fiddling, since I’m used to a record/play switch or button on digital cameras. On this you hit the play/pause button, which automatically plays the video you just took.
The + and – and fast-forward and reverse buttons and play/pause are just “touch” areas with no feel whatsoever. I find these to be just awful. You are almost going to need to be looking to use them.
Next I wanted to set the time and date and maybe some preferences. I couldn’t figure out how to do it. A menu button would be customary in these devices, but there was none to be found.. I finally figured out that you hold down the video/camera button for 2 seconds. You almost need to attach a quick reference guide to the camera to know how to use it…
VIDEO QUALITY
I did a few tests and found the video quality, on HD mode, to be ok, but nothing worth getting excited about. After all, the lens can be measured in millimeters. On the computer with the video file and HDTV via HDMI, it was not as crisp and clear as larger HD camcorders, but it would be perfectly acceptable as a YouTube video. It may have HD resolution, but I doesn’t qualify in my mind as an HD-quality picture (which has more than a technical meaning).
In comparison with the iPhone 3GS, the video was of higher quality with the Vado, and I didn’t notice a huge difference in how it handled low lighting.
EASE OF TRANSFERRING
This is a high point of this device. The built-in USB “cord” is genius and hopefully will be adopted by more devices. It has a program that can be installed, but Windows can just get the videos directly, which is great. If only all devices made it so easy.
Overall, the so-so video quality and awful usability will make my camera go back it the box.
I think this category of digital video recorders cannot withstand the onslaught of phones that will be able to do the same thing without carrying extra devices.
Rating: 1 / 5
Creative Labs Vado HD 3rd Generation; is very easy to use and it is small. It takes still photos too. It work very well on my Mac. This camera comes with very little instruction, but is not hard to figure out. It has a high resolution picture and sound, that is easy to to adjust the sound with a plus or minus symbol on the camera. I’ve had a chance to take many still pictures and moving films over the past two weeks because of a holiday. It worked with ease. Mu guests were amazed.
I highly recommend.
Rating: 5 / 5
I can’t comment on the product features or functions as my Vado HD did not work out of the box. Chasing down the warranty for my Vado has been an absolute labaryth of broken links and unclear proceedures. I have just managed to get this product registered, in order to get a RMA number, but the serial number is not being recognised! This should be simple! Registration and waranty should be linked and International Warranty should mean International.
I whish i could rate the product itself, my research indicated that it should be good if not great, but so far I am dissapointed with 1) reciving a non-functioning unit, and 2) really poor warranty service.
Rating: 1 / 5
This camera has very good picture quality. However, the screen could stand to be a bit larger and it needs a shut off button.
Rating: 4 / 5
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1QR15GKKZNMOL It’s a really decent little cam. It is a little chintzy compared to the Flip Mino/Ultra or Kodak 6/8, more like a DXG. But, my big gripe is the back office. It is like UPS – really (underlined) annoying.
I dnld the Mac package .. it requests to update the cam .. but stalls near the end. If you click on the installed software, it crashes. I did two dnlds onto two HDs just to see if it was one dnld that was at fault; same/same. … I typed a nice, long, clear, ‘crash’ report because you cannot speak to anyone .. and like the software, I got a ’server error’. Result: you cannot contact them in any way.
I’ve had enough of these cams to know that the Vado works OK … it could use 60fps .. but I got this 3rd Gen because of the promise of a wider lens. I have a GoPro HERO Wide.. but that is like a Fisheye pretty useless beyond about 3 meters/10′.
The video, from a 1st Gen, is a pre-finish processing test where a buddy of mine, Dean, used the cam in Puerto Rico this Spring mounted on one of his kites. (later in the Spring he was in UTAH for some snow kiting with the cam…) It’s a small version just to see if the ‘natural’ cam views looks better than ‘corrected’ ones.
For someone who does not appreciate the skill it takes to do what Dean is doing, the ‘corrected’ version probably looks better .. but I prefer to watch him – as his kite sees him. After all, the video is taken from the kite, not some heli or crane. Fun stuff…
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Rating: 3 / 5