Pansonic HDC 700 Reviews & Tests

Expert review by : Lori Grunin (cnet.com)

Pansonic HDC 700 review

One of the least expensive and most compact camcorders available with a full manual feature set and electronic viewfinder, plus a 1080/60p recording mode, the Panasonic HDC-TM700 presents an attractive option for users dissatisfied by the quality and...

Very good low-light video quality; full set of manual features; 1080/60p recording option.

Smallish, low-resolution LCD; coarse EVF; some edge artifacts in video; middling still photo quality.

The flash-based Panasonic HDC-TM700 and its hard-disk sibling, the HDC-HS700, stand out for their low-light video quality and broad set of manual controls. However, while the TM700 is very attractively priced for its class, the HS700 is not, and not...

May, 2010

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Consumer review (cnet.com)

Pansonic HDC 700

the camera went dead 5 months after the end of the warranty period. it cost me a leg and an arm to fix it. one advise : just keep away from TM700 Panasonic camcorder and look for other brands.

very low reliability compared to its high selling price

Jul, 2012

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Consumer review (cnet.com)

Pansonic HDC 700

I now used the camera (TM700) for one month and I'm impressed by the picture quality; although there is some lens flare when making pictures from the sun at dawn. I do make a lot of use of the ablity to manually operate the camera. It provides me a...

Image quaility and ability to operate it manually

The position of the button to manually make the adjustments

Aug, 2010

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