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Sanyo dubs its VPC-FH1 a 'Dual Camera' because it fulfils two purposes. With its 8-megapixel sensor and 10x optical zoom lens, it's usable for shooting stills but it also supports Full HD video recording with a stereo soundtrack. Announced at the end ...

We had widely variable results from our still image tests with the review camera. In bright sunlight it was possible to capture well-exposed photographs that were sharp enough to print at snapshot size and recorded a full and natural-looking colour ...

The Sanyo Xacti VPC-FH1 is a low-priced digital camcorder that delivers good-looking video and stills, with image quality just slightly trailing that of HD camcorders priced nearly three times as much. Indeed, with an RRP of just $799, it's pretty ...

Good image quality for asking price, above average low-light performance, impressive battery life

MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec incompatible with some editing applications, unintuitive menu

But if you can live with these shortcomings, and if your editing software works well with the camera's MP4 files, then you can save a lot of money with the VPC-FH1. It's a lot of camcorder for the price