Aiptek AHD Pro 1080P High Definition Camcorder Silver

Recorded sound feedback was awful
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Unfortunately, for me, the price WAS too good to be true. I was very excited about the 1080P prodcut for the price. Unfortunatly during my first recording, I noticed a great deal of noise garbage feedback in the recording. I double checked the playback from my tv and a computer to double check that it wasn’t the “player” . Unfortunatetly it was not and I had to return it an bought a $500.00+ sony. I did receive a full refund through the amazon seller, however, hence the two stars.

fantastic unexpected christmas gift!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I received this camcorder as a gift for Christmas and have been totally blown away by it’s ease of use, image quality and battery life. The majority of functions were totally intuitive and I was able to find them with minimum fuss and without referring to the manual. The camera has a good fit in my hand and I love the toggle navigation style, but someone with bigger hands might have issues. Most useful aspect so far is my ability to take high-quality pics through a microscopic eyepiece. You can take microscopic pics with a broad array of cameras, digital and otherwise, but the quality of these images is really amazing and useful to me as a student.

great little vid cam
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
extremely easy to use. great features, especially with AV IN. plugged my bullet cam in and it worked like a charm. though product feels cheap, can’t complain especially when it’s at a great price. not recommended for night shots though, no matter how much lighting you have…

battery life is not great, so always bring an extra one if you’re gonna be out the whole day…

Great camera for the price
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I was very impressed with the camera. Pretty easy to figure out and use. The battery life is great, the quality options are fine. It’s a little aggravating to have to go through the menu and set up the light each time you turn it on, but not a deal breaker. Great price, too. We were able to record our baby’s first Christmas with it. Very happy

Great priced HD camcorder
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Great battery life, great video, great pictures, decent size and shape!! I bought mine brand new at Wal-Mart for just over $200, and it has been a wonderful camcorder, used it to record my sons first attempt at crawling, first steps, and to record all of our dogs playing in the yard!! The auto focus is a little slow, and video quality is not as good in low light, but I would still recommend this to anyone not wanting to spend a fortune on an HD camcorder!!

Good lighting is the key – auto focus is a little slow
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
If you have good lighting and a steady hand the video from this camera is excellent. Best results come with well lit rooms or outdoors during full daylight. Lower light situations are not too bad (perhaps on par with some standard definition videos).

The auto-focus is slow and can cause some blur if the distance to the subject you are recording is constantly changing.

Actual footage
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Shot 10 videos (without changing batteries) while visiting relatives in Tallahassee Florida, and was impressed. Just go slow in panning camera, and as much as possible, use a tripod. I only have a monopod with me and it shows. i got some camera shakes when i breath. Search Youtube for 12 Lipa, and click on FSU Swing band. I don’t know if I’m allowed to post a link here, but here goes; [...]

BTW, I use the plastic cap of a one gallon water jug, just snipped off the inner ring, and it fitted perfectly over the lens.

Great product that i always carry always strapped on my belt. Never miss a video-shoot opportunity; get one..

Great technology for the money
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’ve owned video equipment over the span of 30 years since it became generally available to consumers, starting from a $3500 combination of huge shoulder mounted camera that required a separate VCR slung from the same shoulder. This little hand-held gadget provides 10 times the resolution for 5% of the cost in a package 5% of the size of the original. I never thought such an inexpensive product could produce such quality, but indeed the HD resolution is just that, and the color reproduction exceeds the VHS-C camera I had been using for the past 15 years. It’s a gem. You can carry it around in your pocket unobtrusively, and it even comes with a remote and tiny counter top tripod. The only negatives I’ve so far noticed in the month I’ve had it are that the tripod socket is a bit shallow to accommodate the mounting bolt on my huge old tripod so I have to use a washer between the camera and the tripod to effectively shorten it to get it tight; and when in AV-Out mode to monitor what the camera sees on a television, the camera’s screen goes black, but that may be a matter of adjustment that I haven’t discovered, and it has no real effect since what the camera sees is being displayed on the television monitor. And I’m mildly concerned that there seems to be no way to prevent inevitable eventual scratching of the lens, such as lens cover or separate disposable-quality accessory lens; or even the ability to completely replace the lens; but that may just be a function of the overall inexpensive level of the equipment. Otherwise, I find this camera more than satisfactory for casual convenient videography and the price beats a similar unit available at Costco.

Worth every penny
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I think the main reason this camera is so cheap is because it uses flash memory and is made by a not so well known company. Before purchasing, several online reviews (outside of Amazon) and retail employees told me this camera was only good for dirty youtube style videos. Quite frankly, I’ve never seen a camcorder that didn’t have that look to me. It really has more to do with lighting than anything, no matter what camera. This camera actually looks WAY better to me than the 640×480 Sony camcorder I had before it (which I paid over $500 for at the time).

This camera has all the features most people could ever need in a camera. It is easy to use. The only single problem I’ve found with it so far is that the case scratches very easily. It will probably look like hell after a few weeks-months of use, but as long as it still works the same, it was worth saving at least $500 over the next 1080p camcorder.

Good for kids soccer games!!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
The camera is good. It offers 720p 60 frames per seconds. Looks good in the HD TV. It comes with a remote control. I used 4G SD cards. Enough for 1 hour game.

Shots at night are not pretty good. You need to have good illumination.

I don’t really like the pictures, you have to be too still to get a good one.

For the money is excellent. I just take out the SD card, take out the movie, post it in youtube. Or I just put them in my laptop with HDMI output and I can play them back in the TV, if I took the video already from the camera. You can play it in the HD tv from the camera with the component cables.

Great Buy
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this camera recently but now use it almost exclusively. It’s the second videocam that I’ve owned and this one is a real improvement over its predecessor. The videos come out HD and I upload them onto YT with ease. Honestly, they’re pretty impressive. [...]. Further, you can set the camera on high resolution and it creates some absolutely beautiful pictures. Yes, its size is a little ungainly but I have Carhartt shorts with a side panel pocket that’s just big enough to hold it. I have to say this camera is one of the best buys I’ve made.

Not up to camcorder expectations
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I bought this to get HD camcorder, and thought that the 3x optical zoom would suffice.

However, I find that I’ve barely used it since the required light levels are so high that you tend to be outside, where the 3x zoom is not sufficient.

Recently bought a stills camera with built in video function, and have used that more. It has better zoom, and better low light capability.

So this is disappointing; it will probably be good because it’s solid state, and can record very low res (like web cam) for very long time, but not what I wanted it to do.

Basic but functional….
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
My sister-in-law showed up last Christmas with a new Sony hard disk HD camcorder. She said she paid over $1,000 for it. I pulled my Aiptek out, took some video, plugged it into my plasma and no lie it looked better than hers. I kind of felt bad – I think she was really bummed. If all you’re looking to do is just have a camcorder that you can shoot soccer games, outdoor outings, etc.. this is what you need. The owners manual for the HD Sony’s is an inch thick and I hardly ever used all the features in the majority of camcorders I have ever bought. I am so pleased with this camera. It works best outdoors in good light and is so-so in low light. The picture is amazing, the battery life is excellent, and you need at least a 4-8 gig SD card.

Good for price-but has limitations
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
This product is good for the price–but has many limitations. When I hooked it up direct to my HD1080P television with the component cable, the picture was more like 480P than 1080P. Also, I was not able to download to my PC without problems(playback was jerky or skipped frames). I used several software packages(some recommended by the Mfg) and still was not successful. Since I could not download to my PC, then that prevented me from doing what I bought the camera for and that was to download to a DVD to be played back on my DVD player. I sent the camera back to Amazon and they gave me a refund. As a side note, I discovered during all this that there is going to be format problems with various HD cameras being compatiable with PC’s, DVD players, etc. So good luck……

Good quality does not work on windows moviemaker
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I have tested the aiptek HD it has good quality, but THE FILE FORMAT h264 WILL NOT IMPORT ON WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER OR SONY VEGAS, (crashes sony vegas if try to import it).

Aiptek A-HD Pro 1080P
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Aiptek A-HD Pro 1080P High Definition Camcorder (Silver)

I purchased the A-HD Pro 1080P to use it as a DVR and in that aspect it works well. I use a Sony 580 line helmet cam which I usually connect to a Canon Eaura video camera but I wanted something lighter, much lighter to record BMX racing. The A-HD Pro 1080P is by far lighter and captures the video input quite well, the only draw back is that the Canon captures at 60 fpm and the Aiptek at 30.

As far as using the A-HD Pro 1080P as a camera, the picture quality is good as long as there is good lighting, I would not recommend this camera at indoor sporting events unless there is an extreme amount of lighting.