Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I ordered two of these cameras for a video shoot- I needed cameras that could be lost or damaged, without running over budget. The quality didn't need to be great, just okay. I figured since these cameras claimed 1080p that they couldn't be that bad, so I tried them. Let's start with the good- -They have an LCD screen so you can see what your shooting. -The menu and camera settings are easy to navigate, and the camera is overall easy to use. -Comes with several accessories that seem to be of decent quality. Now the bad- The camera quality is terrible. We are talking the kind of quality you would expect from a 1980's home camcorder. Forget about the claimed 1080p or 720p resolutions, it might record in some weird variant of that resolution, but that is not the capture resolution at all. The capture resolution, what you actually get, not what is recorded, appears to be closer to 240p. This isn't an exaggeration. My old Sony TRV80 480i camera looks much sharper when scaled up to 720p then this thing does. It should also be noted that the aspect ratio you are dealing with on this camera is around 4:3, so if you scale to fit 16:9 you end up cropping the image, giving you closer to 180p resolution. No, that is not a typo, I meant 180p, not 1080p. Besides the poor resolution the colors are a disaster; Besides not even being close to capturing what the colors really are, the colors that do get captured are complete mush. Any edges at all have horrible color fringing, making the edges of everything look like dancing rainbows. Now maybe the absolutely horrible, completely unusable quality is something you can live with. You just need a camera with a wide field of view. Well, you are going to be disappointed here as well. Despite the claims that this camera features a 140-degree FOV, it definitely doesn't. At least not in video mode (I didn't test the photo mode). The actual field of view seems closer to 50-70 degrees. Conclusion- This camera might make an okay toy for a child. Outside of that I can't image how it could possibly be useful to anyone with its truly horrible picture quality.