Sony Handycam DCR-PC55E

Sony Handycam DCR-PC5

especially for our holiday in Florida, we needed one that was small so that we could take it on rollercoasters etc. and be able to hold onto it! The Sony DCRPC5 was the smallest we could find. For £1000 (from www.unbeatable.co.uk) this camcorder has everything. Great zoom, clear picture, stills capable and of course it’s really tiny. My favourite part of the camcorder is the still picture facility. You can store digital photos (like a normal digital camera) on a memory stick which is supplied with the camera. They can then be downloaded to a PC from the camcorder. All of the leads and software are supplied with the camcorder to be able to link to a PC so ...

Sony Handycam DCR-PC5

The Chanel little black dress of the camcorder world, the DCR-PC5 is seriously small, sexy and gossamer-light at 450g. it’s so small, in fact, that you can’t hold it in the usual way, but master the drop down handle and his is a joy to use. It’s LCD viewer doubles as a touch-screen menu, allowing you to access a huge range of ...

Sony Handycam DCR-PC2

That's true in a sense, but you can only print them on a video printer. Pretty useless feature. The PC3, which costs a little more uses the Sony proprietry memory stick to save still photos. The memory stick can then be inserted into a floppy-disk like device and the digital image transferred to a PC. If I'd known the limitation of the PC2 I'd definitely gone for the PC3. Besides the memory stick option of the PC3, the PC2 and PC3 are identical. I have discovered that Sony have recently brought out the PC4 and PC5, which is smaller and has even more features. It has the same optics, and is about 2cm shorter. I wouldn't recommend the PC2 or ...