5K Video Camera Camcorder, 48MP UHD Wifi IR Night Vision Vlogging Camera for YouTube, 16X Digital Zoom Touch Screen Vlog Camera with External Microphone, Lens Hood, Stabilizer, Remote, 2 Batteries

Purchased this to make videos to promote our business. Quality is great and the options are almost overwhelming. The remote is a nice added extra. Stabilazing feature works as advertised. Videos are great and easy to transfer to PC for editing.

UPDATE: At least the company contacted me and apologized, wanting to make sure I got a full refund. Unlike many merchants on Amazon they do seem to be responsive!I really wanted this to work out, since it was a great price and had some good reviews, but it also had some bad reviews. The first inclining that something was not right was the instruction manual covered how to install the battery, but that's about it. The hood setup looks cool, but was confusing to setup and there were no instructions on it. There was one gear-like piece that I could not figure out how it went or what it did, so I just left it off.However the fatal flaw was that it seemed to have a problem with the memory card. It indicated that it successfully recorded some test videos, but then when I went to view the memory card it was totally blank (yes I formatted the card per the instructions). I tired 3 more cards and the same thing happened in 2 of them, with the third one getting a memory card error. (The card works just fine everywhere else).There were some other funky things about it as well, such as the enclosed lens cover would not work with the lens hood on. The last thing I would want to be doing is spending time removing the hood just so I could place the lens cover on. Also, assuming you are using the handle grip with your right hand, its almost impossible to reach the record/stop button on the far right. Someone did not think this through.

Takes great shots, used on several fil projects

The optical zoom works as advertised, but since the camera starts off with a fairly wide view angle, the 10X optical zoom does not give you much telephoto capability. However, the 5K image quality is so good that in the 5K mode, the 16X Digital zoom on top of the optical zoom is very useable up to about 8X. But at lower resolutions, the quality of the digial zoom degradates much sooner.It does record audio in 2-channel stereo which its 4K predecessor only recorded in 1-channel mono.The large lens hood supplied with the camera does not fit. It is the same lens hood as for the 4K version, but will not adapt to the different style Zoom lens used on this 5K unit. Big oversight on the part of the seller.It comes with two batteries which are the same size/voltage as the 4K camera but does not come with an external charger as the 4K does. You have to charge the battery while on the camera with the supplied charging cord. This makes it impossible to charge the second battery while recording with the first battery. Fortunately, since I own 2 of the 4K camera systems, their batteries and external chargers are totally interchangable.I do have an ongoing problem with all of these 4K, 5K & 8K similar camcorder type cameras in that they all format their SD cards in exFAT which splits up the recorded video files into 3.72GB each which at 5K resolution provides only a few minutes of video per file.When played back on the camcorder, all files playback seamlessly. However, when importing into any video editing software, you have to stitch together the multiple files, which sometimes causes sync problems if combining your final video with multiple camera files, as I do.Don't know why they can't change the firmware in the menu software to allow choosing formatting in FAT 32, exFAT or NTFS, which would allow writing unlimited length uninterrupted files.Basically, for the money charged, it is a good deal. Dropped to 4 stars because of the lens hood issue and no external battery charger as provided standard with the less expensive 4K model. But the camera itself performes very well, so far.

Very nice product

Product should take care of what I want to do. Controls are easy. Time will tell how the playback is. I use it to do a variety of things. The only fault is when filing the warranty I get error. I presented all the information as asked. To no avail. I hope the camcorder works for a long time without warranty issues. The warranty states that it will honor products licensed by parent company or Amazon for resell. Stated as being a lifetime warranty on card furnished with package. Hope I never need the warranty. Amazon delivered as usual. Very good delivery as promised.

Great little camera overall for the price. Only reason for two star is the USB C and HDMI out connections stopped working. As a result cannot connect to computer to use for streaming as intended to do sometimes and cannot run camera on auxiliary power or charge battery on device. Do get some interference on audio when running phone close by and live streaming while recording as well. Not sure how much better a more expensive unit would be in that regard and might be more a result of the quality of the included directional mic.