Samsung HMX-H300 Pro Reviews

To quote a popular television theme song: "you take the good, you take the bad, you take'em both and there you have" the Samsung HMX-H300. The good is an excellent build quality, solid design, 30x optical zoom, and impressive low-light performance. The bad is mediocre video quality complete with ghosting, a manual lens cover that sometimes doesn’t close all the way, and lousy audio pick up. The manual picture controls don’t factor in the good or the bad. Yes, having them is a plus, but they are so impractical with the touchscreen controls and lack of on-screen guides, that I can’t see anyone ever using them regularly. Had Samsung added “advanced” features like an external audio jack and automatic lens cover instead of manual focus and exposure controls, the H300 would be a real winner. As it stands, the H300 is not a bad buy for the family’s first camcorder, owing much of that to its solid build, but only if it’s available on sale. Serious videographers, however, might want to venture further up the price chart for their

Samsung's HMX-H300BP produces reasonable footage in daylight and is particularly good in low light. Its video quality is better than that of Panasonic's similarly-priced HDC-SD80, which means its main rival is Samsung's own HMX-Q10, which has essentially identical video quality and is around £45 cheaper. If you need the HMX-H300BP's larger zoom it's the camcorder to buy, but otherwise you could save some money and buy the HMX-Q10 with its useful ambidextrous features.