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Originally Posted by Stefan Hartmann (Post 698345)

Hi All,
I got the Z300 HD cam as it called in Germany ( in USA: Go-HD)
yesterday and I tried to shoot a rock concert in 1280x720p.

The camera is so bad, all the audio was totally distorted,
although the concert was not very loud...

Surely an torture test, sorry to hear that Stefan, if it had passed I might have bought one. Yes, no manual mode (I thought that was mentioned here, probably the other thread) is an real downer, and I guess no way to lock the focus too. I think 18mb/s+ (24mb/s preferable) and better sensor, manual controls and low light. I can imagine all the flashing from dark to bright would not be well perceived.

With the Sanyo HD2, except for the manual functions I think you are not going to find anything really much better in the rock concert, and from reports, low light might not be as good. For the price, there are HDV and AVCHD cameras not too much more that might do better.

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Originally Posted by Wayne Morellini (Post 700790)

Hi Wayne, thanks for your advice,
but I really wanted to have a chip camcorder.
Also the HD2 has the possibility to plug in an external microphone,if I understand it correctly, so I would try it with this.
Also I would need a very portable device that will fit into my trousers pocket and all the other
AVCHD and HDV camcorders are much bigger..

Does anybody have seen already the Panasonic S10 new MPEG2
chipcamcorder ? It is only around 350 Euros ,but can do maximum
720x576 16:9 at 10 Mbps VBR.
Maybe nice, if you want to do DVDs without having to recode to MPEG2.
So the backup should be pretty straightforward to do real DVDs.

Firmware version check

Hi All,
the firmware version can be checked by
pressing 1 x the mode button.

Then press the mode button and the upper left
button on your display together , and it will show your firmware version.

You can get out of this firmware menu only by switching the
camera off then again.

I got the firmware version 1.400 from the German Aiptek support and when
asked why they tookit down from their webserver they said, they
wanted to have control over who downloads it, so they rather
send it by email to you.
So fill out their online form and they will send it by email to you.

Regards, Stefan.

new firmware located...

A friend told me, that he has seen the Firmware version 1.400
also over here:

http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=WA88IRD2

So, anyway, you should probably register with Aiptek, so they
know you are now also using the new firmware and if you have any
trouble they can help you.

Regards, Stefan.