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On the photo side, the story is slightly better. The top-mounted mic pics up all unwanted ambient sounds, including finger movements, zoom motors and the like.

Regardless of the picture settings, the H30's sound recording is universally weak.

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The 720p setting, meanwhile, offers little more than a slightly worse image in exchange for slightly more recording time per gigabyte of storage. The H30 adds picture noise by the bucketload and still looks far too dark. It's true that most cheaper camcorders struggle in low light, adding grain to compensate. Indoors, unless you have access to plenty of sunlight from windows and skylights, picture quality is very poor indeed. The frame rate is too low to provide anything even approximating smooth motion, something that is made worse still by the fact the image stabiliser is, for some reason, not available when the device is set to 1080p. Definition isn't always as sharp as it should be, either, with fuzziness around the edges of objects. In even sunlight and with quality set to maximum, the camera delivers an acceptable video picture, though colours are barely recognisable from their real-life counterparts, looking too saturated and giving off an overly magenta cast. In terms of performance, the Camileo H30 wavers somewhere between mediocre and plain awful. The claimed recording time is two hours 30 minutes and, in our tests, the H30's power charge certainly lasted longer than that of many higher-end camcorders we've seen recently. Standard AV and USB cables are supplied, as is a universal power adaptor, lens cap, remote control and a basic carry pouch. HDMI is among the output options and another welcome surprise is that there's an HDMI cable included in the box, as part of a reasonably substantial selection of supplied accessories. There's no built-in storage to speak of (SD/SDHC cards of up to 32GB can be used), but the H30 does include a 5x optical zoom where many might have stuck with an inferior digital zoom. We also found a few compatibility issues with the file format - our AVIs wouldn't play back on a PlayStation 3 console, for example.

Images are processed as H.264 AVI files, which lack the benefits of the AVCHD codec that's used on most other more expensive camcorders. For higher frame rates, you'll need to drop the quality setting to standard-definition 480p/WVGA, which runs at 60fps.

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Toshiba's budget HD cam uses a 10-megapixel CMOS sensor to record video at up to 1080p at a rate of 30 progressive frames per second (also known as 1080/30p).

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The settings themselves never get too complicated, either - picture quality, manual white balance, scene and output modes are about the limit of the device's complexity. Instead, you tap to scroll or select menus and settings, which is fairly intuitive. It's not capacitive or anything, so don't expect to be using iPhone-style swipes and gestures. Perhaps surprising for the price is the fact the Camileo H30 employs a touchscreen interface and, though somewhat basic, it's actually pretty effective.

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It's a squarer 4:3 ratio screen, which gives you black bars at the top and bottom while you're filming HD (which is always 16:9), so you never get the full benefit of the screen's size unless you're using photo mode. Though generously sized, the 3-inch fold-out screen is actually the wrong shape for high-definition video. Buttons feel flimsy and, while fairly small and light, the boxy body doesn't do the device any favours. The glossy black plastic and metallic trim is presumably intended to look classy, but comes off looking a little cheap.

Though hardly ugly, we wouldn't exactly call the H30 a marvel of modern design.