Sony Handycam DCR-HC22E

Sony Handycam DCR-PC5

I bought this camera after trawling around the Internet and various shops for opinions and advice. I wanted a decent quality camera but it needed to be small - the theory being that I would far more be likely to carry around a small camera than a big one. I am happy to say my choice has been excellent. Although the zoom doesn't match up to some of the bigger cameras, it is plenty good enough and can do really close up work. The output quality is brilliant, whether it is straight to TV/video or to a PC. The zoom is slightly fiddly, but easy enough to use even with my banana fingers. The still photos are only 640x480 so not brilliant but okay for web shots. ...

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-TR7000E

The Sony DCR-TR7000E is one of a new breed of cameras from Sony. In many ways this camera is an excellent compromise and offers the novice or advanced user a range of facilities which will cause it to remain the camera of first choice for many years to come. Digital cameras are appearing at a relentless pace, yet one thing remains a perenial problem for this breed of unit. Storage. There are numberous standards for storage media, all of which are relatively expensive. Sony has solved this problem at a stroke by combining a camera which uses Hi8 tape but records digitally. On a 90 miniute tape you can record in DV standard 60mins of film. At a cost of about £5 per hour, ...