Samsung SC-MX20 Flash Memory Camcorder w/34x Optical Zoom (Black) | 
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| Brand: Samsung
Category: Photography
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New (5) Used (2) from $190.00
Rating:  6 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Optical Zoom: 34
Display Size: 2.7
Maximum Focal Length: 78.2
Minimum Focal Length: 2.3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 5.6 x 3.2
MPN: SC-MX20
Model: SC-MX20
UPC: 036725302129
EAN: 0036725302129
ASIN: B001FA1OHW
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Record high quality video images with 680K pixel CCD, plus Schneider Lens | | • | Get close to the action with 34x optical zoom / 1,200x digital zoom | | • | Also shoot H.264 (720x480i) - 6 hours recording with 8 GB card, or 16 hours with a 32 GB card | | • | Designed and optimized for easy YouTube uploading | | • | Features an advanced image stabilizer and a 2.7-inch LCD viewfinder |
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Product Description
The MX20 makes it easy to capture everything you want to remember and some you might want to forget. It features an optimized recording mode for YouTube, a schneider lens with 34x optical zoom, image stabilization and face detection. The MX20 also features the longest battery life in its class, lasting up to three hours.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Perfect for what I need. September 22, 2008
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I just wanted a little camcorder with decent quality. For the money you can't go wrong with the SC-MX20. It is so simple and straight forward. The only thing I don't like is that none of the common/standard media players can play mp4 format. Other than that I like it and am very happy with the quality of the video. I would recomend it. I did a lot of research on camcorders the ones with good reviews are $350 +. I decided to take a chance on this camcorder because it is so new there aren't many reviews yet and I am very happy with my choice.
Great Little Camera October 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great little camera. Took a video, connected to my laptop, which looked at the camcorder as a USB storage device, opened it in a new window and just copied the MP4 to my desktop. I can play it as an MP4 from my desktop, but I opened Adobe Premier Elements and changed it to a Quicktime video (conversion took about a minute) which I can email to friends. I had no problem with video lag and I am wondering if the other reviewer may have inadvertantly put the camera in its time-lapse mode. I would say that the video is comparable to my Sony Handycam (for which I spent considerably more).
great camera !! :) October 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
great camera, good quality, cheap price 34x zoom is a LOT and the picture displays well you can record up to 5 hrs if video with just an 8gb card the battery can last up to 3 hrs, or longer if you turn off the display
it works fine with macs, and iMovie HD and 08 the only downside is the fact that you cannot record directly onto iMovie, that requires a firewire camera
Software that makes this camcorder excellent!!! November 18, 2008
I now love this camcorder, its light, easy to use and the video after being converted on my computer with the right software makes the quality wide screen and crystal clear. First the software that comes with it is called Cyberlink Mediashow and it seems pretty sweet but it won't allow a 16:9 aspect ratio even when selected. I went through Samsung's tech support through their level 2 guys who were stumped and I found free software at download.com, "Free Video Converter v 1.3 which updates automatically after installing to v1.4" and by selecting avi with Xvid 624x352 with 16:9, I got wide screen and great quality, I could have chosen up to 1920x1080 but on my 43" plasma 624x352 is sweet. I've got my 8 and 11 year olds using this camera like pro's and the videos are worth much more than the camera cost.
Hopefully Cyberling Mediashow will come up with a patch for their software as it has the potential to be great if they would just fix the aspect ratio issue.
 Almost perfect (for the price) September 20, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I won't dwell upon the little things missing from such an inexpensive camcorder (viewfinder, for one). You expect to sacrifice some details when you strip a camcorder down to its bare essentials and sell it cheap (well, not really cheap but inexpensive).
While you won't get DV quality video, you will get acceptable quality as long as you understand that you're shooting in a highly compressed H264. Editing your footage on your Mac is virtually impossible unless you convert it all to DV and edit it in iMovieHD (or use that iMovie'08 abomination). Personally, I use MPEG Streamclip to convert to DV, drop those conversions into iMovieHD, do my editing, and convert the "reference movie" using MPEG Streamclip so I get a nice H264 for my iPod or AppleTV.
I would have given this camcorder 4 stars but there is a flaw in the firmware that neglects to give any of the better quality settings (the 16:9 footage that's better than the "YouTube" quality) the "16:9 flag" setting. So what you get is footage that's squished narrow because all the players and editing apps see this video as 4:3. (QT Player and VLC on both Macs and PCs see this problem.) As I mentioned above, I use MPEG Streamclip (it's free) to correct this problem when I export to DV - I set the 16:9 flag there. This problem with the camcorder is, frankly, inexcusable and shows that at least one engineer was asleep at the switch.
If this problem were fixed (a firmware update, perhaps?), I'd go back to a 4-star rating. How could it get 5 stars? Give me an external microphone port.
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