AHD 200 review

AIPTEK, a company based in Germany have created a cheap and light camera called AHD 200.

Cheap is good, or is it?

In Norway this camera is sold by Clas Ohlson for less than NOK 1000 (nearly €100).

High Definition Camcorder - AVC (H264) performs 720p (1280 x 720) high definition quality at 30fps

I do not intend to write a lengthy review of this camera. For it's price I like the camera. You buy a cheap video camera, and you get what you expect from a cheap camera.

There is no optical zoom with the camera, only digital. When you zoom the picture gets bad, so do not use the zoom.

I have attached some videos from the camera so you can make out your own opinion. All recordings are from the highest possible bitrate and resolution.

1. Outdoor recording of a car driving by. (5MB.)
2. Low light, indoor recording walking down the stairs. (10MB.)
3. A picture of a car and a boat outdoor.
4. The outdoor and the low light indoor recording rendered to a MPEG file with TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress. (26MB.)

Other sources and references:

• A test at SimplyDV
• A test at cnet
• Product homepage