Zoom Telephonics Q8 Handy Video Recorder

I love the audio quality, but the video quality is horrific in low light conditions. Video quality is not bad if the room is well lit, or if your recording outdoors during daylight hours

While the Q8 is probably good for making "decent" home videos of you favorite band at a club, it is not suitable for much else. The on-board audio mixer is great and partly the reason we purchased this camera, for live music streaming. However, a few...

Excellent Product especially having a good quality sound recording along with the HD Video is a great experience.

This is basically a good mike with video for reference. For the price it should have a much better lens and image processing. It is atrocious in low light and the lens is a wide angle with huge distortions on the edges. Very disappointed.

* Great sound quality.

Limited "zoom" function has 5 zones, not a smooth transition. On no zoom, the image distorts slightly around edges (fish eye)and is more pronounced than at close zoom. Audio quality is superb, and probably better than any cam in its class/ price range....

This product is excellent as an audio recorder, but the video looks terrible. It has very little dynamic range which makes it very difficult to color grade and the out of camera image looks pretty sad. The curve on the wide angle lens is unacceptable....

Great for recording audio... If your more than 10ft away from target forget video. Lens is simply too wide.

It is a great little audio recorder but the video quality is bad! If you have anything better than a cell phone to record video it will do better than this. I us an Samsung NX1 and 2 Sony action cams(FDR-X1000V). The Zoom does a better job with audio....

I've used a Zoom H4 audio recorder for years (have a couple of them). It's durable, dependable and most importantly is one of the few portable digital recorders that offers XLR inputs for better quality mics. It's that reason I was so excited about the...