Canon ZR10 Digital Camcorder by Canon
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Digital camera reviews of Canon ZR10 Digital Camcorder
Digital camera Review: Dirty Heads
Summary: 4 Stars
I've had this product a month and was very pleased with it. We had recorded about 20 minutes of video, part of which my wife had viewed once successfully. We then went to watch the whole tape again, and found that there were thick grey horizontal lines across the picture in playback mode. Based on the manual we used a cleaning tape which resolved the problem although after a further 10 - 15 minutes of viewing the problem re-occurred. A further cleaning again resolved the issue. I don't know if the heads were dirty when we got the camera or if the issue was the brand new TDK tapes we were using. We have bought some Panasonic tapes now which we will use for a week of two before deciding whether there is something more seriously wrong with the camera that needs to be checked out under warranty.Digital camera Review: Disappointed
Summary: 1 Stars
Thank goodness I found this problem before the baby was born and after copying tape data to my Mac.
Currently a tape is stuck in my ZR10, a.k.a., paper weight. I spent several HRS copying important wedding videos before encountering this problem. After reading several other message boards and Cannon's FAQ's this is a widely known and accepted problem with the ZR10. I just hope the stars align and I can recover my current tape. After reading other reviews, it does not sound promising.
Luckily I only paid $100 for my used ZR10, so I definitely won't get it fixed and definitely will not buy another ZR10. The sick thing about this problem is that it sounds like Canon knows about this problem, but are unwilling to offer to fix it. That is a good way to loose this customer.
Digital camera Review: Disappointed
Summary: 1 Stars
Canon has a reputation for excellent optics, but my recent experience with manufacturing or design problems is causing me to have serious doubt about Canon's quality. I have a 35 mm Elan IIE that has a well documented defect with the battery compartment. This ZR10 has an excellent feature set and input/output ports for the price. While the camcorder was still very new, I experienced intermittent problems with mosaic patterns occurring over part of the picture. It did not always occur in the same place, so I don't believe it was tape damage. Canon recognizes this problem in their FAQs, but they blame it on recording over a used tape.The camcorder was out of warranty but relatively lightly used when the worst problem occurred. It pulled out and chewed up two tapes. Searches on the internet reveal that this is a common problem. A local independent repair shop spent hours on it and was unable to repair it. I'm not sure if I want to throw any more money at a camcorder that I was never fully satisfied with. This camcorder received very good reviews as a new product when the reliability was unknown. Based on my experience, I cannot recommend it.
Digital camera Review: Durable camera, great value
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought my camera about 18 months ago and it has worked flawlessly the entire time. Back in summer of 2000 I paid [a lot of money] and thought I got a deal. Now [the] prices [are] a true bargain.I bought the camera for shooting outdoor sports and the new baby. The camera is totaly awesome. At less than 2 lbs it is easy to carry anywhere and it works perfectly in a wide range of tempratures and conditions, 20 degrees up to 112 degrees. Worked perfectly every time.
Some peopel have complained about poor perfromace in the dark, well buy the light, duh! The lens is small so it will not collect too much light in dim conditions. Apature, apature, apature.
The controls are a snap and the all of the accesories are great.
For the prices you are buying a great camera in the superior Mini DV format.
Digital camera Review: Eating tapes
Summary: 2 Stars
My husband purchased this in early 2000 for a trip to Africa. It worked well back then, and it worked very well for our wedding in '04. He hadn't really used it since Africa, though. Since then we have used it very little, maybe 6 hours worth of total video taping before we put it away for about 3 years, until yesterday. I've been digitizing all our old home movies from VHS to DVD on a GREAT little Sony DVDirect(purchased through Amazon). Seeing that the camcorder will also work very nicely with the DVDirect (Mike's Camera charges $35 for 1st hr and $12.50 per hour after to transfer tapes to DVD so the Sony has saved us over $1000 including the cost of the unit), I was ready to see what was on the tapes and get them transferred (our honeymoon is one we didn't transfer from the mini DVM's yet). Well, it's doing nothing but eating tapes. For $70 we can maybe get the "capston" cleaned, but it will be another $35 to see if that's even the problem. From what I'm reading here, it probably isn't the problem. I wouldn't recommend purchasing this, for anyone. It ate 2 tapes that my husband was able to rewind (ate about 5" of tape before he got it out, on both tapes) so we're going to attempt to view them through another camcorder and see what we can do. I'm not going to attempt to clean this product or use it again. I'm just hoping that the 2 eaten tapes had videos we had already transferred.