Review of Sanyo VPC-WH1 camcorder

Sanyo VPC-WH1 is a compact size, beautifully designed high-definition camcorder. Its unique color makes it a trend setter. Extraordinary looks and color will surely catch everyone’s eye. VPC-WH1 has become popular in teenagers because young crowd likes style, slim and sleek devices that can be carried in one’s bag easily. It has a waterproof exterior design; hence water and snow will not affect VPC-WH1 in any way. Body of this camcorder is strong and glossy. Glossy texture coating will not let water or snow to stay on it. Zoom angle is also extra-wide, therefore making your recording experience exhilarating.

Look and feel:

Look and feel of Sanyo VPC-WH1 is incredible. It has one of its kind designs and compact body. You will find that it is easy to handle, there is a shortcut buttons for each operation. Like for capturing still image or for recording videos there is a button placed at your finger tips, hence you don’t need to go in to any mode setting. This is a feature that is not available in all camcorders. Its dimension is 8-inches in length, 7-inches in width and 4.5-inches in height, it is handy camcorder. Its weight is around 3 pound. You can hold it by only one hand but to handle it properly you should grasp it tightly by both the hands. Color available with VPC-WH1 is blue, yellow and white.

Performance:

Excluding the problem of video compress that degrades the quality of the video, rest of the features are astonishingly good. Moreover, 30x zoom enabled with the camera lens is remarkable and captures distant objects clearly and at a single click. Easy-to-handle as well as easy-to-use VPC-WH1 is amazingly surpassing. Video quality delivered is a super fine. It captures 720 pixel and 30 frames per second for digital video. 30x optical zoom give a satisfying outcome. Face chaser feature will make sure all the face is in focus. It can capture still snaps when you are already recording videos. 2.5-inches Liquid crystal display is wide enough to view video and images clearly and with full aspect ratio. LCD screen can rotate in 285 degrees. It is an awarded camcorder by 1PX8 certification, which is assurance that the device can run underwater. The waterproof feature will let you do 10 feet underwater recording for hours. Image stabilization feature is also available for grasping blur free photo. You need not have to take an extra tripod for image stabilization. You can start recording very fast just in 1.7 second. Camera for still pictures is only 2mega pixel but its resolution is good. Slots for SD/SDHC card are provided.

Connectivity:

One HDMI cable to share your video with family and friends just attach your camera to HDTV make it a theater experience. One slot is of audio/video and the other one is for USB for connecting your VPC-WH1 to PC. High quality compression technique is used. MPEG4 AVC/H.264 will compress your data and let you to use more space of memory. You need iTune software to copy your recorded video to iPod.

Battery life:

Sanyo’s battery is well-known for delivering the best throughout the world. Lithium-ion battery is of high quality.DB-L50 is designed to work for longer time in VPC-WH1. It can work for 200 minutes.

Cost:

Cost of Sanyo VPC-WH1 is around $400 which is expensive but looking at all its features its worth buying.

Bottom line:

The VPC-WH1 has 30x optical zoom and waterproof body will make it one of best choice but video quality is over compressed and is expensive too. So I will rate it 3.5/5.