Panasonic HC-X800

96% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Excellent image quality ; Great optical image stabilisation ; Lots of manual settings

Manual controls only available from menus ; Loses enthusiast features of X900

The standard optical zoom is 12x, but there's an Intelligent Zoom option that boosts this to 23x, using some of the spare sensor pixels so resolution isn't reduced. Image stabilisation comes in the form of Panasonic's excellent Hybrid OIS . This...

Video Quality is top notch.The sound is also very clear and the microphone picks up everything.It had a pretty good wide angle with 3MOS sensor

Battery life is poor.Will hardly last few hours.Should include an external mic input

easy to use,

large heavy battery,

easy to use

large heavy battery

picture quality and not to complicated to use

comes with no memory card and these are quite expensive battery life on full hd not that long but there is an alternative battery that gives a longer life

picture quality and not to complicated to use

comes with no memory card and these are quite expensive ; battery life on full hd not that long but there is an alternative battery that gives a longer life

easy to use, fantastic picture qualiity

when recording in 1080p you must use a big memory card, eg/ 32gb

Easy to use even for the inexperienced. Picture quality excellent

Too pricey

Video picture quality looks good, photo detail excellent. Easy to use with full auto. Video file format works well with third party software

Non so far

Video picture quality looks good, photo detail excellent ; Easy to use with full auto ; Video file format works well with third party software

Non so far