| | |  | -Nikon | Home » » » Sanyo Xacti VPC-CG9 9MP Flash Memory Camcorder with 5x Optical Zoom (Black) | | | | | | | Description: | | CAMERA, XACTI, VPCCG9BK, BLACK, 9.1M | | | Features: | |
• Features 40MB of internal memory; SDHC Flash memory compatible
• Shoots 9-megapixel digital photos; includes Face Chaser technology
• Highlighted by a 2.5-inch LCD display; super-fast start-up
• Easily share videos and photos with highly-advanced MPEG4 video compression
• Includes a high-capacity Sanyo brand lithium-ion battery
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Product Height:
| 4.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.94 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 58 reviews |
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 IT OK... but 2 things to know...Jul 03, 2010
This is a nice little cam. I see it as a step above a cell phone video. The thing I like about it, is its portability and FAST ready. You can go from having the camera OFF to Recording video in seconds.
The two things I do not like:
1) If you lose the USB sync cable... you are in trouble!! It is NOT a standard cable! It looks like one, but the end you stick into the camera is NOT standard. I lost mine and had to search the internet for an hour to find one company who has replacements. They are going to charge me over $35.00 to replace this cable. SUCH A SCAM !!! Sanyo itself does NOT have this replacement cable listed anywhere on their site. (You would think that a company would make a replacement cable for their product easy to order. Not Sanyo!! Not for the Xacti VPC-CG9)
2) This camera is useless in low light situations. If it is even slightly dark, the picture degrades to almost completely blind. Even indoors the picture is very poor- nearly unusable, unless you have the window wide open and it is bright outside.
oh and even though this camera has image stabilization, which is amazing to find on a portable cam like this, it is still quite shaky.
 Buyer Beware! Short Warranty and Terrible Service.Dec 05, 2009
This product comes with a very short 90-day warranty and terrible phone and web site support. I did not pay attention to how long the warranty period was when placing my order in Thanksgiving 2008. Big mistake. I used the camera only on vacations and holidays. So on the 3rd use this past summer (about 8 months after the purchase), the auto-zoom went dead. I then checked the warranty and realized it came with a 3-month labor warranty. I went ahead and call their customer support. It took several calls and long waits to finally get through, only to be told the closest service center is in IL (I live in MD). After considering the shipping cost, and the repair labor cost. I just declared total loss. I will never buy another Sanyo product again.
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It has its place....Nov 05, 2009
Update 11-12-09 3 stars
The indoors natural light pictures and video this takes is unacceptably poor so I returned it. If this is used outdoors only, or with flash indoors, it takes fairly good pictures and nice video. For this price you might look elsewhere like the Canon SX110 series.
Original Review 4 stars
First of all I own Canon cameras (Canon SD1000 and Canon SX110) that take better photo's and videos than this does but the things this combo does is quite good. I like the pistol grip style, the nice large screen and the audio is excellent. I was hoping it was a little thinner as it puts a bulge in your pocket, any thicker and it would be a deal breaker. It is something you would not mind having on you most of the time at a place like Disneyland. It feels well constructed and I like the lens being recessed into the body as it won't get finger prints easily. As others have said it does not take good pictures or video in poorly lit areas but in good light it is good on pictures and video. It has some nice features most point and shoot cameras don't and for the money its worth it. It's place in this world is for someone that wants spur of the moment decent video's and pictures mainly to send over the internet to family and friends. Its not the camera you want for once in a lifetime photos or videos. Consider this a second camera or video camera as its not a DSLR or a $350 48x optical zoom camcorder and it doesn't pretend to be. It has its place......
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misleadingJul 24, 2009
Bought this camera expecting all listed features to work.This camera takes fair vidios,if you don't move to much, fair still pictures but won't print date on photo copies or on images transfered to computer.Contacted Sanyo and after 4 or 5 emails back and fourth their last reply was that it will not print date unless you have PicBridge on your printer or on images transfered to computer.I also took my sd card to Wal-Mart to make copies and it will not print dates with their photo printer.This feature is useless if it will only work under certain conditions.I think the biggest problem is Sanyo's failure to acknowledge that this camera isn't working right.What good is a warranty if they won't fix the problem?NO MORE SANYO FOR ME!!!
Nice little camJul 21, 2009
The camera is exactly what I was expecting for - beautiful, little camcorder, small enough to carry around most of the time (which was the reason I bought it) with video quality ok for most of the situations. This camera is indeed does not have the greatest IQ around, but wait, we don't expect the image quality of semi-pro 3CCD camera from a toy that fits in you pocket. As I said, I needed a camera that I could carry around with me all the time with satisfactionary IQ, and Xati was the right choice. In sunlight the colors are good and video is sharp and smooth (unless you start to peek at the pixel level), indoors it obviously much less impressive, with a lot of noise and noise reduction smearing artifacts, but watchable anyway.
The build quality if fine, the camera design is great and device indeed look sexy. And it is much more convenient to hold in your hands, than phone-style Flip camera, for example. What I did like less, is annoying lens cap, which (if used) is somewhat awkward to remove and if strapped with included loop - tends to get in front of the lens when your are shooting, unless you hold it. I don't have a problem with non-standard usb, like several people here mentioned - because I simply don't use it at all - I just pop out the memory card and insert into card reader built-in in most laptops, or use external cardreader for desktop computer, which is way more convenient than camera lying around PC connected with cables. The battery is indeed small, and it is pity it lacks the ability to charge battery in-camera, but the charger is very compact itself, and it battery charges very fast.
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