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Strengths: Good quality video, fairly small, priced right. Can capture still right off of the Tape, not good enough for printing but for the web - ideal. DV copies has no generation loss.
Weaknesses: Stills only 640 x 480, small battery (can purchase better battery), manual hard to understand, have to read it several times to figure things out.
Summary: This is a mid priced consumer DV Cam and you get features corresponding to the price (in other words, you get more features but you pay more). It comes with a USB & Video (RCA jack on one end) but Sony uses a proprietary plug on the cam (to save space since they are smaller), nice but you cannot just use any cable. No 1394 cable, luckily, that is a standard cable but they cost $25 up. Lens is only 10X optical, but remember, very high zoom means hi cost and less quality. I am happy with the lens. I think digital zoom is almost not worth using. I like the feature of capturing still frames right off of the tape. Plan to use it for the web since it is only 640 X 480. Don't know why these Cams can record lo quality mpeg to memory stick. Paying for this feature seems a waste since the computer can do the conversion. Digital editing on the computer is the only way to go. Quality stays high when making copies. Editing on the computer allows you to edit out unwanted recordings (but there is a learning curve to getting everything working on your computer). The manual could be written much better. Obvious it is written by sombody that English is not their first language. Sometimes has to be read very carefully to understand a feature.
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