Canon Elura 85 MiniDV Camcorder w/18x Optical Zoom Reviews

Average Customer Rating - 3.3 out of 5 stars

6 customer reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Good camcorder but ........, April 23, 2005
I bought this camcorder recently and I am satisfied beside its performace. The only reason I am taking bad a few ** (stars) from this product is due to the reason that you cannot transfer video from MiniDV to your computer using USB port. It required IEEE 1394 firewire cable (Cannon does not supply this cable with the camcorder) and a computer which has compatible port (not adjectives in many computers and so you terminate up buying a suitable card for your computer if you wish to transfer the videos).

1.0 out of 5 stars Ejection apparatus failed after 2 years, March 10, 2008
I have unfamiliar this camcorder very much at all within the past two years I've had it. I've perchance recorded about 10 tape with it and watched a few stern on playback. Today I was getting it ready to motion picture the birth of our second child and all of a sudden a message came up recitation me to "Remove Cassette Immediately". I pushed the eject button and the cassette is totally stuck and will not move. I called Canon and they told me it would be around $150 to fix. I researched other blogs and electronics trouble shooting websites and read several comments from others with this exact same problem. VERY DISAPPOINTED!

5.0 out of 5 stars Corrections, June 13, 2005
This camcorder have been reviewed by several experts and has received totally good recommendations. See for yourself at www.dvspot.com or www.camcorderinfo.com.
As for the reviewer that complained almost the firewire...ALL digital camcorders use firewire for video transfer to a computer since USB only have a transefer rate of 1,1 Mb/s vs Firewire which has a rate of 400Mb/s. 4 minutes of finished video takes up 4 Gb!!
Nobody would want to verbs video using USB 1. NOBODY, not Sony, JVC, Panasonic, or Canon ships their camcorder with a firewire cable ($14,99 Amazon.com). Please get your facts right previously you give a great camcorder 3 stars.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very pleased with this camcorder, February 5, 2006
This is one and only the second camcorder I have owned. I've had it for give or take a few 2 months. So far, it has exceeded my expecations. I haven't gotten into the details of what you can do with it. But, the picture and the nouns on the camcorder have been great. I would unquestionably recommend it.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good camcorder, December 31, 2005
I like the features this camcorder has (although I enjoy to confess I didn't buy mine on Amazon). I don't give it full stars because the picture quality of late seems average instead of bright and sharp. The analog to digital conversion feature is getting knotty to find in camcorders, and lets you run VHS tape from your VCR through the camcorder and into a PC (or onto the camcorder's digital tape), and that's a major plus with this device.


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