Advantages: cheap, great quality , nightvision , lightweight Disadvantages: no firewire or usb included , but you can buy these cheap
Sony DCR HC51E is a very easy to use camcorder. brilliant quality recording.
*touch screen LCD screen *nightvision Plus- its works great , with an infared feature.
*lightweight camera *uses mini DV cassettes *LCD screen flips round so you can record yourself easily.
*editing Effects feature , scene selection , for example snow, indoors, lanscape , portrait, spotlight, sport and loads more.
*Fader
*40x optical zoom excellent for close up's
*the ... ...you to watch back.
cant believe what a fantastic camcorder this is for the unbelieveable price , would recommend this Sony DCR HC51E to buy .
you will have to buy a firewire (i-link) cable . so you can connect to computer for easy editing to a dvd ...
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Advantages: good picture quality in most aplications, very light ,good batery life Disadvantages: focus can be poor in very low light recordings
...under £200 which for a brand new model isn't too bad but I suspect this is a vision of the future and all camcorders will go solid state soon and the price will come down to ~£100 like the base level Minidv camcorders from JVC and Canon have done. ...
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Advantages: Easy to use, small and light, fantastic battery life, great video quality, optical zoom. Disadvantages: Hopeless sound on recorded clips, barely audible on PC.
At first glance this Toshiba seems to be the ideal small pocket camcorder, it has many great functions including optical zoom.
The first one I purchased suffered from an intermittent screen and low sound, this was replaced with no fuss and the second Camileo proved to be a lot more reliable, very good quality video recordings can be made and the controls are simple and well laid out for ease of operation.
However the sound is extremely poor on ... ...than about six feet from camera will not be heard, even narration from the camera user is extremely low and poor quality, this is a great shame as the camera is superb otherwise, I have
