Canon ZR65MC MiniDV Digital Camcorder

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risk in defect of CCD

from '02 to 1wk ago thought it was great, now eats tapes....

Great

Good Camera

Not a low light camera

Canon ZR65MC MiniDV Digital Camcorder

Manufacturer: Canon
ProductGroup: Photography
Binding: Electronics

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Canon ZR Series Camcorder Accessory Kit

Targus Digital Li-Ion Rechargeable Battery for Canon BP522 2800 mAh

Canon BP522 Extended Lithium Battery for ZR 80 85 90 Camcorders

Canon SC-A50 Camcorder Soft Leather Carrying Case for ZR, Elura, Optura & DVD Camcorders

Canon S-Video Cable S-150 for all Canon Camcorders

Product Features:

MiniDV camcorder with 20x optical zoom, 400x digital zoom, image stabilization

2.5-inch fold-out color LCD screen and color viewfinder

Takes digital stills (1024 x 768) and stores them on included 8 MB Secure Digital memory card

Shoot panoramic still photos, then stitch together on PC

Connects to PCs and Macs via Firewire (IEEE1394) and USB (for photos)

ASIN: B000088USW

Product Description

Designed for point-and-shoot simplicity, Canon's ZR65 MC camcorder allows everyone to great results without any effort at all. Place the camcorder in your hand, and it fits comfortably and securely, like you've owned it for years. No learning curve is necessary as soon find yourself shooting crisp, vibrant video and life-like digital photos, just by pressing a single button. Connect your camcorder to a computer running Windows or Mac operating systems, and experience the digital world like it was meant to be, quick, seamless, and fun. Canon, the trusted name in optics for decades, has made capturing memories more convenient, exciting, and easier than ever.

Amazon.com Product Description

Looking for an easy way to break into the world of digital video? Look no further than the Canon ZR65MC, which makes capturing valuable family memories as simple as pressing a button. It also features the ability to take high-resolution digital still photos and store them on memory cards.

Lens
The ZR65MC features a high-performance 1/6-inch 680,000-pixel CCD to capture high-quality video and digital photos. The zoom technology found in the ZR65MC lens is the same as Canon uses in its broadcast TV lenses. The ZR65MC is fitted with a high-performance 20x optical zoom lens, which can easily handle all your shooting needs--from wide-angle shots of all the family at the reunion to close-up sports action at full telephoto. The ZR65MC's 400x digital zoom significantly expands the telephoto magnification of the subject.

Image Stabilization
Canon's image stabilization system corrects camera shake caused by, for example, an unsteady hand. This image stabilization system makes for smoother and steadier video even with hand-held shots--at full telephoto--and with shots taken from a moving car.

Digital Still
In addition to high-quality video, the ZR65MC also captures outstanding digital photos. All it takes is a single press of the photo button to shoot crisp XGA (1,024 x 768 pixels) digital still images. The ZR65MC stores these images via the built-in slot for Secure Digital (SD) and MultiMediaCard memory cards. You can also choose to store still images on the MiniDV tape. The camcorder records the photos for approximately 6 seconds, as well as recording the sound for your verbal notes or narration.

You can search through the recorded tape for your photos using the supplied remote control. This photo search feature allows you to search for images recorded in photo mode. Search forward or backward through the images one at a time, or 10 from the current position.

More Features

Print photos directly to Canon bubble-jet printers
2.5-inch fold-out color LCD screen and 0.33-inch color viewfinder
The My Camera function is designed to let you customize a number of features, including start-up image and sound, shutter sound, start-stop sound, and the self-timer sound
Shoot panoramic still photos, then edit together on your PC with the PhotoStitch software
The full-function wireless remote control works at distances up to 16 feet
Wide selection of faders and special effects, including sepia, black and white, wave, mosaic, and more

Inputs and Outputs
The ZR65MC comes with the standard DV IEEE 1394 port (also referred to as FireWire), which provides a lossless connection to a PC or other DV machines, as well as USB connectivity for transferring still photos. Additionally, the ZR65MC features two types of analog audio and video inputs and outputs: composite and S-video. The analog audio inputs of the ZR65MC let you dub or insert editing from CDs, cassettes, microphones, or the soundtracks of other videocassettes.

MiniDV Format
MiniDV is the new preferred format for personal and broadcast-quality video, highly regarded for its high audio and image quality. With up to 540 lines of horizontal resolution and minimum color noise, MiniDV delivers a 20 percent clearer picture than analog camcorder formats. This is all delivered on a cassette that's 1/12th the size of a standard VHS tape. A MiniDV tape offers digital recording time of 2 full hours--20 times the capacity of a CD.

Power, Size, and Contents
The ZR65MC comes with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery pack, which has an approximate battery life of 75 minutes when using the LCD screen. The camera itself measures 4.1 by 2.3 by 5.8 inches and weighs 18 ounces. This package includes the ZR65MC camcorder, battery pack BP-508, power adapter CA-570, wireless controller WL-D79, shoulder strap, stereo video cable, USB cable, 8 MB Secure Digital memory card, and the DV Network Solutions and Digital Video Solutions CD-ROMs.

Customer Reviews:

risk in defect of CCD.......2005-07-02

My canon zr65 suddenly went black (No image detected). From what I found on the web (a lot of people have the same problem), the CCD may be the cause. It looks like there is a quality issue about this part. To replace a CCD is very costly. Take your chance.

from '02 to 1wk ago thought it was great, now eats tapes...........2004-11-29

(correction: i just noticed 12/3 i actually have a zr50mc..duhh...) guess i bought it around 3/2002 since my first tape is dated 3/18/02. (online for $580 or something like that...cant remember.) i've shot 12 90minute tapes since that time (60mins set at SP for 90min recording). like i said, i thought it was a great camera for video until recently. my main reason for getting it was to record my new kids, one now 4yo and one 2.5yo, becaue my vhsc panasonic camcorder began recording very warbly audio (video was/is still good) and i wanted to capture their early talking, etc. the zr65mc problems started recently while i've been converting those tapes to dvd to share selected clips with the grandparents, aunts, friends, etc. (i found ulead's products very good for this, by the way, after first using windows movie maker to import to dv-avi format. had to buy a new 120g hardisk though to add to my 60g since each imported tape took up to 19gigs each. i always wondered why people needed such big harddisks - now i know.) anyway on importing about the 7th tape, while rewinding, it jammed. i was able to eject the tape and used a pencil to wiggle and extricate the caught tape inside but it was chewed up pretty good and about 6inches was hanging out. after some scary tinkering with the cassette since i didnt want to loose the rest of the tape i was able to figure out that you you can manually rewind the tape. if the window side is up, operate the latch to open the tape cover on the right bottom. by using a hairpin or something small to depress the little latch on the bottom back middle and use the eraser of a lead pensil to either rewind or forward past the chewed up tape. sometimes i had to rewind or forward a bit more if it wouldn't work again after the first reloading. but i was able to convert all the tapes with only a few seconds of lost video. the problem is i thought it was only with the rewind, but yesterday (11/27/04) on a bart outing to the metreon with 12 of my family, after working at home, at the bart station i pulled it out to continue shooting on the same tape and it gave me the dreaded red eject tape message on the lcd blue screen of death. i put it back in the car and used my old reliable casio qv2300 digital camera the rest of the day. let me just say, i am a video, digital camera, computer and internet sorta guy...the rest of the family luvs it but the wife often hates it.

now, i'm researching the problem and found many postings for the zr10 of this problem. i suspect all these zr models are the same camera and canon just changes the model number each year...they're up to what zr95 or something and its still probably the zr10 inside. if i figure out a non expensive solution, i'll post it. at least it can be used still as a analog-digital av converte, since that doesn't require a tape...and i did use it with my panasonic to convert 18 vhsc tapes to dvd. all very time consuming tho.

by the way, i had another problem with a canon product before - a digital camera a70, that i bought for my workgroup in cupertino, early 2003 i think. out of the box new, one week later it stopped functioning completely! i sent it back east somewhere and two months later it came back working. but i didn't like that that camera didn't have the ability to choose whether you wanted to have the date stamp on the picture. when i called canon they said to use exifer for that. how lame i thought (after being used to the casio)! also the battery life indicator didn't work right. [thats why i like my casio (plus the swivel lens) and the casio software].

i'm thinking i shudda bought this tiny sony (forgot model) like i wanted to at the time, but i didn't like the $1k+ price then and the mic wasn't in a good spot. this one beat out the jvc's too for some reason i cant remember now. but its a whole new ballgame now with all the different stuff out there. maybe have to start the headache of trying to choose a replacement if i cant fix this one, and i doubt it worth paying to fix so....

anyway bottom line is i'm kinda thinking i'm not gonna buy cannon anymore or recommend it to people who ask me, and recently prior to this, i did recommend cannons to at least 4 of my friends.

Great.......2004-08-25

I shot a feature film on this little baby. Works best under low light. For those who had problems with the camera, maybe you're just too dumb to make it work. Maybe you should go to film school like I did. No problemo. Great camera for the price. Only, i paid full price for it and now see Amazon.com had a much better deal! Ahhhh!

Good Camera.......2004-06-18

I used this camera to take close-up pictures easily at the US Grand Prix Pit Walkabout today and I found it outstanding. Even from distances as far as 100 feet, you can zoom in far enough to see very detailed parts of the cars, like small wires used for telemetry. I highly recommend it, although the battery life is incredibly short and there is next to no space (8MB) on the card I got with it. But this is to be expected.

Not a low light camera.......2004-06-15

As stated many times before by many people this camera does not do well in low light.

Knowing that the camera does very well in well lighted situations. Even turning on extra indoor light will produce acceptable results. I have had no problems with motor noise or audio/video problems.

What makes this camera attractive is the features it has for the price. The digital effects, the chroma keying with the SD card pictures and best of all the digital to analog and analog to digital converter.

The price of this camera puts it in the range of dedicated digital to analog and analog to digital converter. This allows you to transfer old VHS or VHS-C tapes to DV. Cable boxes or TiVos with RCA outputs can also be used. Once on DV they can be transferred to the computer for editing and then burned to CD or DVD. Since it has the onboard converter it can also be used to edit video on a TV screen if your video editor supports it.

The camera also acts as a digital camera but even on the best camcorders the output is not on par with stand-alone digital cameras and is added as an after thought.

If you can live with the cameras low light problems then this camera will do well. If not save your pennies and get a better camera. If your need to get old footage in to your computer to put on DVD then consider this camera. With a Mac it will also work as a web camera without any addition software. If you are shooting a lot of low light footage this is not the camera for you.

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MAG InnoVision 15In Analog 1024X768 LCD Lt541C Fp PNP 16.1M Colors

Manufacturer: MAG INNOVISION
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

15-inch TFT LCD screen

0.297mm RGB stripe pitch

1024 by 768 maximum resolution

16 million display colors

Onscreen user controls

ASIN: B000051607

Product Description

This 15-inch active matrix LCD monitor displays sharp, clear and bright images. With a short depth (including stand), it uses almost 90% less desktop space than a standard CRT. And it's only a fraction of the weight of a CRT. Its sleek look is ideal for image-conscious corporate offices, but the LT541C's real value shines in medical, scientific and clean room environments. Exceeding EPA Energy Star and TCO emission standards, it generates very little heat, consumes a maximum of 35 watts of power - 25% less than the average CRT - and emissions are almost zero. The design allows a 65-degree horizontal viewing angle and a 40/60-degree vertical viewing angle. Because this monitor can be viewed from many angles, you can gather information - even fine text and graphs - without sitting directly in front of the screen. The screen pivots on its pedestal so that you can view your world in either landscape or portrait mode. Scan spreadsheets horizontally or cruise Web sites in a full-page vertical format. The LT541C measures 12.6 x 19.3 x 11 inches in portrait mode, and 15.4 x 17.7 x 11 inches in landscape mode. The LT541C displays a maximum resolution of 1024x768 at 85Hz. Plug and play compatible for ease of use under Windows, this model also has USB capability. Front panel controls include OSD display, h/v phase, fine phase, power LED, power key, color temperature, brightness, display mode, expand, auto adjustment, contrast, recall, timing info, and more.

Amazon.com Product Description

The MAG InnoVision 15-inch LCD LT541C monitor has a 1,024 x 768 maximum resolution and 0.297-millimeter RGB stripe pitch that deliver sharp, clear images. The LT541C, with its small footprint, is perfect for those who want to save space. Its features include onscreen user controls such as brightness and color temperature, plug-and-play capability, 16 million display colors, and EPA Energy Star compliance. This model is PC and Mac compatible.

MAG InnoVision offers a three-year limited warranty with this product.

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Customer Reviews:

Will function as a spare battery for a Magellan eXplorist 500 GPS.......2007-07-31

Slightly less battery life than the factory battery. But at half the price, who cares? I have two that I keep with my eXplorist 500. Holds a charge for a couple of weeks--longer than the factory battery. Highly recommended for when you aren't going to be near an outlet for a while--like when I was recently in China.

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Minute Man 750VA UPS 450 Watt Power Supply

Manufacturer: Minute Man
ProductGroup: Kitchen

Uninterrupted Power Supplies | Batteries, Chargers & Power Supplies | Accessories & Supplies | Categories | Electronics
Product Features:

750VA/330 watts

4 battery backup outlets with surge and 2 surge-only

ASIN: B00070PU7Q

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MBK-E series is designed for the protection of PCs, telephone systems and data communications. Built-in AVR (automatic voltage regulator) provides a boost function to compensate for low AC voltage situations like brownout and sags, saves internal battery power for blackouts and extends the life of the batters. Independent battery bypass allows the UPS to provide voltage regulation with surge and spike protection on utility AC power even when the batteries are weak or dead. Includes Minute-Man Sentry II power management and diagnostic software. Integrated USB port for software communications(USB included), 3-year warranty of internal electronics and 2-year warranty for batteries. $50,000 MinuteMan Platinum Protection Plan(US and Canada).

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The Mach Speed Thumb Drive MP3 Player has arrived. This Thumb Drive MP3 Player delivers superior sound in a sleek design for improved mobility and portability. This skip free MP3 player is also a voice recorder and a portable storage drive based on the ever-popular Thumb Drive platform. This little MP3 player also doubles and triples as a USB flash drive and a digital voice recorder. Take it anywhere to listen to music, store data, and take quick voice notes for those hard to remember pieces of information like which part of the mall parking lot you left your car. With its rugged design and crystal clear backlit-LCD display and neck strap you can even enjoy music while jogging at night or just having a quick music boost during your lunch breaks with this carry everywhere device. The USB connection on this MP3 player makes copying music and files on and off the internal built in flash drive as simple as it gets. With easy to install software and full users manual you will be listening to your favorite digital music within minutes of opening the box.

Amazon.com Product Description

The sleek and stylish Machspeed Trio digital audio player provides skip-free playback, thanks to its 256 MB of flash memory. It's also a multitasker, providing an integrated microphone for voice recording (great for short reminders or capturing lectures) and USB mass storage capability (for backing up and transferring files from one PC to another). It features a backlit LED screen for viewing song information, and it has three preset animations (for welcome/goodbye) that you can choose from, as well as English and Simple/Traditional Chinese language display.

This player is compatible with MP3, WMA, ASF, and WAV files, but is not compatible with protected WMA files from online stores or subscription services. The 256 MB memory will store approximately 4 hours of CD-quality MP3 tracks (encoded at 128 kbps) or 8 hours of WMA tracks (at 64 kbps). It features 7 preset equalizer tones--normal , rock, pop, classic, soft, jazz, bass--and a variety of play modes, including repeat one, repeat all, play folder, and random. It connects to PCs via a USB 2.0 connection, and is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. It's powered by a single AAA battery, which provides up to 10 hours of continuous playback. It's backed by a 90-day warranty.

What's in the Box
256 MB Machspeed Trio digital audio player, earbuds, USB cable, printed operating instructions

Customer Reviews:

Don't expect to ever receive your rebate.......2006-02-21

I bought two of these units from different retailers in September. I have yet to receive a rebate, and customer service hasn't reponded to either of my Help Desk tickets since December.

The AR price for this unit is great, but I never would have bought these pieces of junk had I suspected that the rebate wouldn't have come through.

Then again, that's the risk you take with rebates. Most people would say "I told ya so".

The MP3 players themselves are really chinzy -- cheap construction, limited functionality.

flaky power, trash manual, not really a value player.......2005-12-27

I bought this for my 12 year old son. He wanted a player and needed a USB drive, and I wasn't sure how much he'd use one. Consider it a decent starter player, with lots of features, but don't consider it a value even with a $25 rebate. I have never seen such a useless and poorly written manual in my lifetime of buying Japanese, then Korean or Chinese inept translations. It likes to power down if the battery is used at all. I paid $30 with rebates and feel like they did not go to enough trouble to take my money. Having said that, with a fresh battery and everything working, my son totally loves it.

You get what you pay for.......2005-10-11

I purchased this items for my teenage daughter. I thought it would be nice to combine the MP3 player along with the flash drive that she needed for school. The display screen cracked within the first week. The device is larger that I thought it was going to be based on the pictures. With the rebates it was still a good price for the item.

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Lenovo Special Bid Custom Model Only

Manufacturer: Lenovo
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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ASIN: B000BLKHRE

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The ThinkPad R52 notebook features outstanding 3D graphics performance. It offers mainstream performance and features for frequently mobile users who want easy-to-use computing.

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