Sony Handycam DCR-TRV510E

Sony Handycam DCR-PC5

again. I've even dropped it onto a (thinly carpetted) floor from two feet up and it works no problem. Great! I bought our Sony PC-5 only last Saturday. By my reckoning that means I've had it 4 days. However, I've mastered the controls and played around with it enough to be able to give any prospective buyer what I hope is a fairly good opinion of this machine. First things first. I have never owned a camcorder before although I have used several larger models quite a lot. My opinion of them has always been "nice but terribly big". Now that we're having a baby in July I thought it would be an ideal excuse, sorry, opportunity to ...

Sony Handycam DCR-PC4

I was instantly amazed. Not only is it very small indeed, in fact, to my horror people often confused it for a camera rather than camcorder until the screen appeared! The camera is full useful functionality: * a flip-out screen which is touch sensitive controlling the fast forward, rewind, camera settings and special effects (fade in and out, colour or b&w etc). * The Long-play function gives 90 minutes of recording from a 60 minute tape * It has very clever night and super night settings which enabled me to take clear pictures from an underground, unlit aquarium. The picture at this point does look like a negative (white eyes) but the subject is ...

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 ...