Review: Panasonic HC VX870 4K camcorder

At long last, my full and, as usual, rambling review of Panasonic's 4K consumer-grade camcorder, the HC-VX870 (essentially the same as the WX-970 but that also has an extra camera on the LCD)

I am of course an idiot with regard to the self-levelling feature: you turn it off with one of the few physical buttons on the camcorder, which I completely overlooked as they're otherwise so limited in use!

PLEASE, PLEASE NOTE: this video has been extensively recompressed not only by me so as to make the upload a manageable size - it was still 4GB! - but also then by YouTube, so the video samples shown inherently do not reflect the camcorder's ability. There's no way round this other than me buying a 100Gb-upload leased line (that ain't gonna happen).

Don't miss these individual test videos which are of higher quality as they were a lot shorter (and therefore smaller):

4K unedited footage straight from the cam:
   • Panasonic HC-VX870 (WX970) camcorder:...  

4K edited footage:
   • Panasonic HC-VX870 (WX970) camcorder:...  

Full HD (50Mbps, 50p) straight from the cam:
   • Panasonic HC-VX870: HD footage at 50M...  

Stabilisation, Zoom and audio tests    • Panasonic HC-VX870: Stabilisation (OI...  

And see also my playlist of Sony AXP33 videos (this camcorder's nearest rival):
   • Sony AXP33  

Buy the VX870 at https://geni.us/TS_PannyVX870

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