For those who want a statement to the video quality of the X909 have: The technology of the camera is absolutely great, excellent sharpness, colors, Lowlight, everything great and almost on a professional level. But the camera has actually deserves 5 stars.
BUT: The battery-policy is an impertinence! For three years I had the pre-predecessor HS-700 in use. And here it comes! The batteries of the two cameras are nearly identical: same dimensions, contacts, amperage, voltage levels, all technically identical except for the guide rails for engaging! This has been changed so that my 6 old, fully functional large batteries from now so now are completely useless. Great! And not because the technology had somehow changed. No! The manufacturer wants you dutifully fetches new completely overpriced batteries. It is really about time that this nonsense is normalized law! When you consider how much money will each year simply by burned completely pointless. Each mobile phones, cameras, handheld games ever completely new batteries. Each type of device even from the same manufacturer usually has its very own individual batteries. That really can not be true!
Panasonic and Amazon now do not need to think that I look at the original battery'll buy the piece for 180 euros, because I could have been so leave me the camera also gild the same. Especially since the third-party batteries differ for 32 euros each against the manufacturers propaganda in any way from the originals. I have third-party batteries for 3 years in continuous use, without failures, without any performance degradation and loss of quality. Everything properly. But good. Now have new fro ...
Add to this strange little things like the now missing in all new camcorder models strap. Even the attachment loops for missing completely. Moreover ... if you feel like, but please search times Camcorder strap "online! You will notice that it (all were common here) except on eBay anywhere in the entire network and for that matter in any of mine visited electronic trading is a strap ! Not even for reordering. Hello ?! Why does the no? Why are there allegedly no demand for it? This is completely incomprehensible to me. It can not be but that every ambitious filmmakers, the camera takes for each scene awkward from his pocket, provides on Use tripod and then wegpackt again or films most about but only occasionally, and only here and there a half minutes Why should you buy such an expensive camera if you do not use them properly as a status symbol ?!.?: - / I can not explain first why the manufacturers want to save the ridiculous 5 Euro for the belt, and secondly, why this apparently no one misses..
A clever camera bag way, I have found none of the abgeklapperten dealer. There seems to be no demand ... My HS-700 I had constantly in use until the very end of the art. I'm with her produced over 600 hours of footage. She was their purchase worth and such mundane things like a belt and a bag were simply mandatory and not an integral part ...
The stripped-down processing is reflected by the way also to little things like the terminals under the folding touchscreen. In the HS-700 they were still protected by a small plastic flap. Now they are free and are thus perfect vulnerabilities for dust and moisture. Here, too, I assume simply times a calculus. Apparently I am to me again soon to buy a new camera, coming up with new, unjustified expensive batteries.
So, that's it for now. Whoever finds himself compelled, may now like bashing me. But I stand by my opinion. These manufacturers policy stinks!
