Great camera at an awsome price I have been renting a Sony DCR-HC21 from my college for a month or so now. I'm a photographer by trade but I really became interested with editing digital video so I looked around for a camcorder that was a bit above mid range. This is it, it has enough professional functions to make it just right for me. Ability to recored in 16:9 widescreen, touch screen LCD, ability to control exposure, manual and auto focus, 40x optical zoom, and at $234.99 it's an awesome buy.
The one Con I can...
[Sony MiniDV Handycam Camcorder (DCRHC52) review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 |  |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/29/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (23 of 23) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Entry Level Handycam First let's correct the Amazon description, this is a 40X optical zoom camera, not 25X as seen on the product itself.
This is a great camera to start out with, the simplicity of Mini DV tapes makes this a good value choice. DVD camcorders in this price range suffer from bad battery life, and disk errors that can render your disks useless. The Mini DV tapes are tried and true.
I use an Apple computer at home and the camera connects to iMovie with no problems using the i...
[Sony MiniDV Handycam Camcorder (DCRHC52) review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/25/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
97% (46 of 47) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Nice camera NO USB I bought this camera, comes with Windows Computer edit software, but guess what? I does not have an USB port, I learn that the manual I checked was also for the DCR-HC54 which has USB, but this cam has not. Now I should pay expensive hardware in order to get to see my videos on computer.
I will not recommend this stuf, I whish I could change it!!
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[Sony MiniDV Handycam Camcorder (DCRHC52) review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 2.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/01/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
18% (12 of 65) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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DOA Had to send it back. Arrived but camera would not focus at all. Send it back and bought a Canon Z900, which works fine.
[Sony MiniDV Handycam Camcorder (DCRHC52) review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 2.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 04/06/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
5% (1 of 19) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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EXCELLENT quality for the $ I tried to buy this camera from Amazon but their server was trashing on 6/6/08 so I dashed over to the local WalMart and picked up one. After spending the last 7 hours going over every feature and nuance, I wish I'd had this camera last week for videoing a great rock band in Illinois... the spot metering feature would have provided me vastly better results than the old Sharp miniDV it replaced! One review of this camera is extremely biased by the buyer's ignorance of technology... firewire is th...
[Sony MiniDV Handycam Camcorder (DCRHC52) review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/07/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (9 of 9) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Sony DCR-HC52 MiniDV Item was straw purchase; I purchased it for someone else, a friend who has never chosen to use any form of credit card. But anyway, the camera works flawlessly in it's chosen use, filming skydiving students/customers while mounted on a helmet.
Only a little lack of info on Amazon site, but easily obtainable on Sony site was the lens size/thread pitch so a wide angle lens could be purchased. Overall, no complaints, camera and Amazon worked as expected.
[Sony MiniDV Handycam Camcorder (DCRHC52) review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 03/12/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
62% (5 of 8) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Nice Camera We have had the camera for a month now, and have been extremely happy with it so far.
a) the quality of the images are excellent
b) the ease of use is excellent
c) the compactness of the camera is excellent
d) the battery life is excellent.
e) the auto focus and auto exposure has been very good
e) The LCD panel is excellent, and is still quite satisfactory in bright light.
The only negative is that the optical view finder is very poor, an...
[Sony MiniDV Handycam Camcorder (DCRHC52) review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 07/11/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (3 of 3) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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5 stars The camera works great.
Night shot plus and steady shot IS make difference. Also 40x zoom.
Enjoy it!
[Sony MiniDV Handycam Camcorder (DCRHC52) review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 10 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/31/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
50% (1 of 2) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great Camera This camera is very easy to operate, light weight, compact and the features for a small camera a nice. I had an earlier version of this camera and a new feature is the lens cap it slides into a comopartment and does not hang off the camera. Great zoom easy to reach controls. Great camera for the average user to record family vacations.
[Sony MiniDV Handycam Camcorder (DCRHC52) review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 8.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 07/17/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (1 of 1) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Sony dcr-hc52 This camcorder is not compatible with a usb cable so you cannot put video onto the internet. Unfortunetly this is why I bought the camera so I wasted my money.
[Sony MiniDV Handycam Camcorder (DCRHC52) review can be read at Amazon.com] | Overall Rating: 2.0 | |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 07/25/2008 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
16% (1 of 6) Users Found This Review Helpful |