Customer Reviews
canon ZR serial camera might has life span problem
I bought a ZR70 camcorder, and it died after about 2 years, and many buyers had the same problem with that model.
check out the reviews about this problem:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000088USX/sr=1-1/qid=1139558055/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-6913632-7235201?%5Fencoding=UTF8
I am not sure if the problem will happen to other canon camcorder models, but it is better to be cautious, a camcorder should last much longer than 2 years.
Excellent video quality, zoom is a bit sensitive.
Easy to use, extremely easy transfer videos and pictures to my Macintosh. Daytime video quality is excellent, especially when playing the finished DVD's on my High Definition TV. The widescreen capability looks as good as a Hollywood movie, at least to my eyes. Video shot inside is really good, too, just have some lights on in the house. This camera is much better than my old Sony 8mm. Good zoom, too. You just have to get used to using the camera, don't zoom to fast, handle the zoom control smoothly and with finesse, don't flick it up and down or it produces noise on the video.
great begginers camera
I just got this camera for christmas for movie making and it's turning out to be a great camera for people like me who are new to film making. It's light so that you can bring it anywhere, but isn't so light that it fells flimsy and easily breakable.
For a college film I used a zr300 and liked the fell of that as well and both have great sound, the only difference with the zr200 and zr300 is that the 300 has more like more zoom and more add-ons right out of the box.
Other then that I would recommend this camera to anyone who wants to begin to make movies and doesn't want to spend a lot of money on a camera.
