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| Brand: Sharp
Category: Photography
List Price: $799.99
Buy Used: $283.50
You Save: $516.49 (65%)
Used (2) from $283.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 60900
Media: Electronics
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Optical Zoom: 10
Display Size: 2.5
Maximum Focal Length: 38
Minimum Focal Length: 3.8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 3.3 x 3.2 x 4
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: VL-Z5U
Model: VL-Z5U
UPC: 074000353213
EAN: 0074000353213
ASIN: B0000899VO
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Broke after 13 months of light use April 25, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Now it has started giving me E007 error. Google does not give any answers to this error code.
In the past it had also given me intermittant dew error.
I had it with Sharp Electronics. My first TV broke. Sharp VCR, broke. Now Sharp Camdorder, broke.
Amazon also stiffed me with the $100 promised rebate on this camcorder.
All in all, a very expensive $350 mistake :-(
I am not going to buy any more tape based camcorders.
- Vikas
Buyer Beware! Error on camcorder renders it useless! April 11, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
After owning the viewcam for about a year, I started to get a dew error that renders the camera useless...and there's nothing you can do. Sharp says to leave the camera door open for 2 hours and then try again. You can leave it open for 100 hours in the desert sun and you'll still get a dew error. EVERYONE that I speak to that has purchased this camera has the same problem. DON'T BUY IT.
Never buy this item! December 17, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
i purchased this item 1 year ago. Basically as soon as the 1 year warranty was up my camera began turning on, but shutting right back off. My camera like the others on this page also, came on with a "DEW" warning. I have made several attempts to have Sharp try and fix this problem to which they have basically told me they won't/can't do anything to help me. Trust me when I say I will NEVER buy another Sharp camcorder/camera after the way i was treated on this one. PS. I had only used the camera approx. 5 times...this was clearly a poor choice on my behalf that I will be sure not to make again!
Sharp camcorders December 14, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
DO NOT BUY ANY SHARP PRODUCTS.
I unfortunately own a Sharp VL-Z3U camcorder which has been rendered useless by an ongoing DEW error (I store the camcorder in my family room and live in Michigan - not humid enough to justify this problem).
After speaking with Sharp's customer relations, they informed me they no longer make camcorders and can do NOTHING for me. They obviously stopped making camcorders because they were not good at it. The cust rep was also VERY RUDE to me and sealed my decision to NEVER BUY ANOTHER SHARP PRODUCT AGAIN.
My Sony camcorder still works after several years - I just bought the Sharp to upgrade to digital tapes (it died in only 16 months).
DEW problem October 29, 2004
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I bought one of these cameras and it worked great at first. But a week or 2 after the warranty expried, I started getting a DEW detection error. It would go away occasionally but always comes back. Sharp wanted $140 to try to fix it. After a serach of the web I found others who were having the same type of problem. I would certainly steer away from this product.
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