Sony DCR-HC21 MiniDV Handycam Camcorder w/20x Optical Zoom | List Price: $399.99
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Brand: Sony
Binding: Electronics
Features: - 1/6-inch CCD imager with 340K resolution
- MiniDV recording format offers up to 520 lines of horizontal resolution
- 20x optical zoom with Super SteadyShot picture-stabilization system
- 2.5-inch touch-panel SwivelScreen LCD
- Super NightShot Plus Infrared System captures natural-looking video in low light
PLEASE PASS ON THIS [Posted on 2006-12-30]
Don't do it. Don't buy this camcorder. You WILL be sorry. There.... I've warned you. The camera itself seems to work ok, but the software that came with it is aweful, aweful, aweful. It just doesnt work.
Great camera [Posted on 2007-01-09]
The camera is great, the image cuality is awesome and the conection to the computer trough digital cable absolutely aginst dummys.
I recomend it.
No external mike port????? [Posted on 2007-05-12]
I bought this camera a year ago for general family use. For that purpose, this camera is fine (a wider angle lens would have been nice). Its color capture is great, it's ergonomic, light weight, everything a camcorder should be--with one major exception.
No EXTERNAL MICROPHONE PORT!!!
Big deal. So what? The built in mike is mediocre at best. If you need to isolate a set of sounds or voices (say, recording a small group conversation, or interviewing someone in public), you're screwed--because this camcorder lacks the one feature included on most camcorders since the invention of camcorders--an external microphone port. Instead, they include a LANC port (not for microphones) that you can use to sync together multiple Sony camcorders. Most people I've talked to (including the store that sold me the camcorder) have no idea what a LANC port is nor what it does.
A microphone port would have made this camcorder functionally complete. Sony engineers included one on all of the other DCR-HC series--why not this one?
Dirty pool, Sony. Dirty pool indeed.
Sony's focus on repair revenue? [Posted on 2007-08-05]
This is the first Sony product I've ever bought - paid $400 and a year later paid $310 to fix dead firewire port that only successfully completed one video transfer from camera to computer. It took them 3 months to fix it. How can I possibly buy another Sony?
Horrible Camcorder [Posted on 2007-10-01]
I used this camera a handful of times, I noticed that the lcd and viewfinder was black. I was able to hear audio but no video. I did some research and found out Sony had a lawsuit against them regarding the CCD on some of their cameras. Well they refused to fix the DCR HC21 because it was not on their list but the problem was exactly the same. I will never buy another Sony product again.
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