Product Description

The SC-HMX10 High-Definition Camcorder has a 10x optical with 100x digital zoom and 1.5M pixel CCD with Electronic Image Stabilizer for remarkably clear pictures, viewed in the 2.7" LCD display. The memory can be expanded through the SD-HC and MMC slot. By offering a choice of shooting in 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, Samsung ensures the entire image is captured for playback on everything from older TVs to your newest, wide-format HDTV screen. Thanks to the PictBridge function from this camcorder, you no longer have to first download your pictures onto your PC before printing. Simply connect a USB 2.0 cable to your PictBridge compatible printer and watch your photos appear. Play videos, transfer images, music and documents quickly and easily. The SC-HMX10 with its USB port allows for easy uploading of MPEG4 movie clips and JPEG still images to a PC. Dimension - 61.567.5117.5 Weight - 310 grams

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #399 in Camera & Photo
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: SC-HMX10
• Dimensions: 10.00 pounds
• Display size: 2.7

Features

• Capture high-definition video to SDHC and MMC memory cards
• 10x optical zoom; 20x digital zoom
• Electronic image stabilization
• PictBridge compatible; print directly from your camcorder
• USB 2.0 interface for easy file transfer

Manufacturer Description

The SC-HMX10 high-definition camcorder packs a 10x optical zoom with 20x digital zoom and 1.5-megapixel CCD with an Electronic Image Stabilizer for remarkably clear pictures, viewed in the 2.7-inch touchscreen LCD display. It also features 8GB built-in flash memory which can be expanded via the SDHC/MMC card slot. The USB port allows for easy uploading of MPEG4 movie clips and JPEG still images to your PC.

SC-HMX10 Highlights

10x optical zoom/20x digital zoom With its high quality 10x optical zoom and 20x digital zoom lens you can get close to the action from a safe distance. And for those ultra long distance shots, the 20x digital zoom will let you see it all in perfect detail.

4:3 and 16:9 playback By offering a choice of shooting in two different aspect ratios - 4:3 and 16:9 - Samsung ensures the entire image is captured for playback on everything from older TVs to your newest, wide-format HDTV screen.

Print directly from your camcorder Give your PC a rest. Thanks to the Pictbridge function of your camcorder, you no longer have to first download your pictures onto your PC before printing. Save your valuable time and energy. Simply connect a USB 2.0 cable to your Pictbridge-compatible printer and watch your photos appear.

SDHC/MMC memory card slot The memory camcorder’s external memory slot accepts both high-capacity SD (SDHC) and MMC. Play videos, transfer images, music and documents quickly and easily using the memory type of your choice. In addition to this slot the SC-HMX10 has 8GB built-in flash memory.

Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS) Minimizes unwanted picture shaking caused by hand movement during recording.

1.5-megapixel video CCD Delivers high resolution video images with superior color resolution and detail.

USB 2.0 interface The SC-HMX10 with its USB port allows for easy uploading of MPEG4 movie clips and JPEG still images to your PC.

Customer Reviews

Awesome picture quality. Best bang for buck.
I'm another poster who purchased at Biglots for only $250. For this price, it has to be one of the best bang for buck video cams period!
720p HD video quality. Flash memory. Super small and light. What more can you ask for? Well, I wish it had a cold shoe,OIS instead of EIS.
If you buy this, it will literally take you 1minute or less to get the camera hooked up to your pc and transfer the video(video transfer takes longer depending on the length)to your pc. I did a short video of my pets outside our backyard. Watching the footage on my pc blew me away. then i edited and recorded to a standard dvd, watched it on a standard dvd player. Once again, I was blown away by the quality of the video.

Don't be fooled by all the reviewers who claim their pc couldn't play the mp4 format. Just download VLC player or mediaplayer classic(both free programs) and you'll be watching your hd videos in no time. My advise is to have a core2duo pc or better with more than 1g of memory. Otherwise you may experience issues with playback and editing.

If you paid more than $500 for this cam, well, not the best bang for buck in your case. Under $300, definitely worth it. Get rid of your old mini-dv cam and join the future of consumer video camcorders.

Great HD camera for the money
Like a previous poster, I bought mine also at Big Lots for $250. For that price I am extremely satisfied. No wonder this made Oprah's favorite list last year. It's very easy to use (and I've used camcorders for over a decade starting with VHS-C), lots of features and the camera quality is wonderful outdoors. Indoors it's only ok but for a flash recorder at this price, it's very very good. Certainly better than other digital recorders at this pricepoint. Built in mic pickup is great and if you have external mics, it has a mini input for that too. Zoom is only 10x which is par for the course it seems for these compact recorders.
I would like to buy a spare battery for this at some point as the current one lasts barely an hour.
For people having issues with codecs on their PCs, make sure your PC can handle high definition. It's a huge resource hog and your 3 year old PC may not be able to handle the playback. Try Media Player Classic after you've installed quicktime. It's a svelte player that will hopefully maximize your frame rate. I have no issues playing the files back on my Opteron system as well as my Core 2 PCs. Even my Mac is able to handle playback and editing with no issues. Since I can't rate 4.5 stars, I'll give it a full 5 instead. If I had the money though, I'd go with the big brother which does 1080p and has a mouth-watering 300fps mode which is great for sports instruction as well as self improvement (see golf/tennis/swimming).

Nearly as Simple to Use as the Macintosh Playing Its Movies Now
This is my very first camcorder. (Okay. I know: I'm culturally deprived.)

Right of the box, it's amazingly simple to use, and for $250, my new Samsung SC-HMX10C (8GB flash drive) was simply irresistible when I bought it twenty minutes ago at Big Lots, just down the street, where the dozen allocated to that store evaporated in a matter of minutes.

After plugging in its external power supply, I quickly and easily shot a few snippets of video and a photo or few, then connected its USB cable to my old, slow (pre-Intel) Macintosh mini, whereupon a Samsung external drive icon popped onto my desktop. I dragged four videos and a handful of photos from the folders in the Samsung drive into a folder on my Macintosh. When I double-clicked a video, Apple's Quicktime sprang to life, displayed the standard H.264 (MPEG-4.AVC) video from the camcorder perfectly (without any of the On-Screen Information that another reviewer misled me to fear would show up in the recorded video).

The SC-HMX10's right-out-of-the-box simplicity is my focus here, because all that I've done is to pull it from its box, plug in its external power supply, switch it on, flip open its huge LCD screen, point it at my wary but curious cats, and press the big red button next to my thumb. When the cats stopped playing games, I simply wanted to see how quick and easy it would be to examine and edit the photos and movies on my Macintosh.

Quick and easy were the words that fit so well.
Twenty minutes out of the box, and everything's looking good so far.

Then I tried two more ways to examine or edit the camcorder's movies on my Macintosh:

1) I opened my old, original version of iMovie on my Macintosh, and dragged one of the video snippets onto its movie clip editing pallette; iMovie played it perfectly, without a hint of a hiccup, on the spot.

2) I plugged the camcorder's S-Video Out cable to the input to my Macintosh's EyeTV Tuner-Recorder, which records an MPEG-2 (DVD grade) video of the camcorder's LCD screen output, while I rummaged among the Samsung camcorder's LCD touch-screen menus and replayed on the camera the video snippets and photographs stashed in its internal flash drive. I like that the camcorder continues to display everything on its own LCD all the while it is transmitting that imagery on its video-out connection to a television or any other player/recording device.

Let me see now. I think there's a User's Guide and a CD in here somewhere . . .

I'll wander back to share some more meaningful impressions, after I've explored the full range of features (and possible problems or peculiar limitations) of this seemingly wonderful video camera.

Stay tuned.