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5 Reviews for Sony DCR-HC51E Mini DV Handycam with X40 Zoom
Good overall - 19 Feb 2009
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Very good little camera overall, easy to use and long battery life. Value for money. The only problem is I haven't been able to work out how to transfer the footage from the tapes onto my laptop. Which wire is needed? And what software? Any help with this would be great.
Once this problem is overcome I would recommend this product to others.
sony handy cam - 06 Feb 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
I scoured all the shops and internet when buy ing this for my daughter for christmas, I wanted sometyhing cheap but reliable and good quality. You get all this with this handy camera and my daughter is really pleased with it.
Good camera, Good price! - 11 Nov 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful.
the picture and sound is very good, also if you want to audio dub you can, connects to a pc easily if you have firewire.
The zoom is probably the best ive seen so far on a small camera, low light picture isnt too bad, some grainyness but what do you expect,there is also nightvision which is pretty good!
all in all a good camera
picture not good - 08 Nov 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful.
The camera is cheap, the zoom is impressive but the picture quality is not. Good to give to your six year old kid so 2 stars.
very disappointed - 21 Jul 2008
42 out of 45 found this review helpful.
Due to my JVC dx 57 finally giving up the ghost and
on the basis of reviews here I ordered the unit 05/08.
Taking some test footage of foreground panning to landscape outside in bright summer sunshine. I then transfered via firewire to my PC and was very disappointed with the results. Specifically the unit really struggled focusing (an issue I could perhaps understand in low light) and footage looked like it was shot in soft focus. Note this is not apparent when replaying footage on the unit itself (which I assume is the reason why this has not been raised in other reviews or perhaps this is the first camcorder the other reviewers have experienced).
You can manually focus the unit but try doing that when your toddler subject is running about and its definitely not recommended.
I suppose I was asking for trouble with a unit boasting 40X zoom, sounds great until you try it and find you're reaching for a tripod. Sony would have done better concerntrating on the basics.
Top marks to Amazon in their returns policy as I was dreading this but turned out the best part of the purchase (the reason why this review got a star).
I then joined Which (I only wish I'd done so before) and my experiences tallied with their review. I've subsequently up'ed my budget and bought a Panasonic nv gs330eb (again from Amazon) and I'm delighted with the quality of the footage taken.
The main lesson I've drawn from this it don't solely trust these reviews.
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