Panasonic PV-GS39

price, portability, usability, image quality, design

84% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Superb zoom reach; excellent battery life; simple controls; true wide-screen recording.

Poor still quality; nonintuitive icons for manual settings; grainy footage.

With its extreme zoom range and its low price, the Panasonic PV-GS39 is a good choice for shooting distant subjects.

Joystick navigation of the linear and well structured menu, -Native 16:9 chip for true widescreen, -Manual controls and the extensive number of settings available in each option, -Side loading tape compartment will allow users to switch tapes without...

Manual controls are hard to navigate due to the need to press the joystick each time a new step was engaged within a manual control setting, -Zoom slider snaps too quickly and doesn't provide smooth transitions or slower speeds, -No Microphone Port,...

As our first full review of 2006, we're glad to see that the feature-heavy traditions of lower-end MiniDV Panasonics have not been lost. Of course, we always like to see improvements, but the PV-GS35 was a big favorite of ours last year, as was the...

Very good quality videos, you can take like 10 pictures supa-fast, in the mode called burst, its really cool for like whatever, the camera is really easy to use, while your reveiwing footage on the tape, you can take pictures of whatever frame is on...

Pictures arn't that great, and i dont think you can record video on an sd card. It seems liek the lcd screen is a little wobbly, buit i doubt it will break uinless i pull it off, and you cant adjust the eyepeaice angle, liek you cant move it up and...

Impressive zoom numbers, small, light, well made, convenient control, good manual override

Slightly grainy, sparkly video, microphone sensitive to camera handling, operator breathing