Zoom Q2N-4K Handy Video Recorder with XY Microphone
J**N
Problem
It was working fine now when I connect it to my computer it does not come up with select card anymore in fact it just brings power to the Q2N 4K so cannot open it to upload my videos to my computer anymore. I brought this to start up my YouTube again have spent about £1900 now so am fuming the Q2N now don't work anymore. Before you ask brand new surface laptop go £699.
C**R
No complaints
Using it as a webcam and it's perfect.
M**N
I hope nobody has paid £281.32 for this
I own one of these.....I'm quite appalled to see this kind of mark up. At £200, free delivery, it would be fine, but £281.32 is pure greedPros:The image quality is fine, no real difference between 1080p and 4k except file size. It's not a £500 camera, it's a digital recorder with a camera built in. In good light, it's absolutely fine. If you want a magnificently pointless image quality for YouTube you have to pay for it. Just like a high quality camera you will still need basic studio lightingFor webcam purposes, from a short distance you can be 2m from sitting in line with someone else and both be perfectly in shot....it's ideal for the current climate.Battery life. There are these things called powerbanks that most people use when they see two 1.5v batteries are going to be used to power a high consumption device. If you are filming in 4K, you would be lucky to get 90mins out of it, which is a perfectly reasonable amount of time. You are powering proper condenser microphones as well....not just a 4K cameraCons:One major one. The big selling point is the condenser microphones. I own several variants of Zoom digital recorders, the microphones in this are not great. Perfectly adequate, but I expected a lot more from them. My main use for the device is recording music for singing groups and using conferencing software. I was always going to use a separate digital recorder for the audio side of things as I need the input audio shielded by a microphone isolation shield for sound deadening purposes. It will bother some people, it doesn't bother me. I would say, for a zoom product, the microphones are sub par, for convenience they are great.I'd really like to see Zoom adding a battery that can be charged inside the device. It is a pain in the backside that they are still using AA batteries. Even if it was a case of building in a circuit capable of using the device as a AA battery charger that would help. I understand the need for the batteries to be removable, but it's worth the extra 50p production cost to add in a recharge feature.Here's the thing. If you buy something via Amazon and it arrives faulty, they will replace it or refund it. It's rare for Zoom to send something out broken, but it can happen. It could have been thrown around in the post, but equally you might have been too aggressive with it.....especially if it was fine when you bought it. 1 star reviews are given for poor customer service or a fake product......not because you didn't do basic research. In this case I gave a 5 star review for the product, but a 1 star review for the value for money. If by the time you read this review the price is back at around £200....it's worth £200. There is plenty of profit in it for a reseller at £200. This isn't even available immediately....and what is/was the £1.32 about?
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