Can anybody who owns a Sanyo FH1 confirm that it works with Class 6 SDHC cards? I had a salesperson tell me that for some unexplained reason, the Sanyo doesn't support class 6. That seems ludicrous to me since I think class 6 is required to record in full 60fps 1080p

I'm a little baffled as to which series card to purchase now. :confused:

Thanks in advance.

I think that is just BS. I don't have a Sanyo FH1 but the similar HD2000 and I have used a Transcend class 6 SDHC card without problem. I have also used several Kingston Class 4 SDHC cards as well and I believe class 4 is the minimum that you need. Class 6 should be even better for faster data transfers.

Thanks for the reply, I would assume if there was a problem like that I would've found it through google the last few hours.

I think I'll order the Kingston 8GB SDHC class 6 and see what happens. Can you still record 1080p 60fps on a class 4? Salesperson also told me that was not possible. LOL... he basically talked himself out of a sale today, that's for sure.

The class 4 card came free with the HD2000 and I have used it for the Full-HR 1920x1080, 60p recording. Didn't see any problem. Though it doesn't improve the video quality, I would also buy class 6 cards in future since the cost is not very much different from those of class 4; sort of future-proof your purchase. :)

I have successfully used Class 6 4gb Card and a class 4 8gb card with my VPC-FH1. Class 6 is actually recommended for VPC-fh1 because it writes faster to the camera, so there is less waiting time between each shooting.

I returned my VPC-FH1 because of its Power Saver feature. When I was using my Class 4 8GB card, at max, it would only record ~10 min of video at 1080p 60fps, then stop recording and write the video to the card.

Well I got the FH1 with a kingston SDHC 8GB class 6 card, I formatted it and it runs perfectly so far.

I swear some salespeople will say anything... he just wanted me to buy a panasonic camcorder, so he made up a story.

Everything's working and I'm happy. I just plugged in the component video output while the AC adapter was connected charging the battery and I was getting some static out of the right anolog audio... hopefully that doesn't occur again. I still have some playing to do.

Thanks for the replies.

I returned my VPC-FH1 because of its Power Saver feature. When I was using my Class 4 8GB card, at max, it would only record ~10 min of video at 1080p 60fps, then stop recording and write the video to the card.

The Power Saver feature only kicks in after some period of inactivity either in the record or playback mode. It should not come on during recording. In your case it could either mean there is some fault with the camcorder or problem with the SDHC card. It will stop recording only when the 4GB file limit is reached and this is after about 23 minutes at the highest resolution. Then it will continue recording automatically until the next limit is reached. See details in my latest post in my HD2000 Blog.

I guess it was fault with the camera. I recorded most of my content at 720p and I did not had the issue.
One day I decided to record at Full HR mode with my class 4 card, and 2 times it stopped on its own while I was recording. So the third time I recorded in 30fps instead of 60fps, and recording lasted more than 10 mins. The card was not full.
The file's stats
1. 9:33 [MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 59.94fps]
2. 10:21 [MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 59.94fps]
3. 14:29 [MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 29.97fps]

I guess it was fault with the camera. I recorded most of my content at 720p and I did not had the issue.
One day I decided to record at Full HR mode with my class 4 card, and 2 times it stopped on its own while I was recording. So the third time I recorded in 30fps instead of 60fps, and recording lasted more than 10 mins. The card was not full.
The file's stats
1. 9:33 [MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 59.94fps]
2. 10:21 [MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 59.94fps]
3. 14:29 [MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 29.97fps]
Yep, I noticed the same thing. At 720p, I recorded until my 32GB card was full. At the next level up, 1080p 30 f/s, the camera would stop recording after around 2 and 1/2 hours. There is usually around 15GB left on the card. It continues to record if I press the record button again. My card is a 32GB Class 4 Sandisk SDHC. Results were worse with my 32GB Class 4 Kingston. Perhaps I may need an even faster card.

I've had issues where a file would flat out get corrupted. That was a transcend class 6 card. I'm using a verbatim class 6 now. It does stop IF the mic cable touches the record button. And one time yesterday when I moved the field recorder, it pushed one of the tripod legs and I guess that movement / jerkiness was enough to trigger the button. But I dropped the camera pretty hard a couple weeks ago. Other than that class 6 all the way. Even a PNY 120 something or other 8GB card. And the only real stoppage that I can't control is the 4GB file size break. The camera does get pretty warm if recording for any duration, so maybe it's a heat management thing. But I'm in Texas and it was 86F at 10:30pm yesterday. And aside from that tripod leg thing no unintentional stoppage.

All of my cards are 16GB or less. It could also be that you're putting pressure on the camera casing. I'm tending to do that if it's on a monopod or tripod and my hand is staying near it. The camera housing is not weight bearing. Putting pressure on it will affect what it records. I've seen that with odd focusing and other weird image capture affects. Which might be partial due to being dropped, a couple times now.