Awesome This is my 4th camcorder and I just love it.
I'm a big photo enthusiast, and despite I own a Nikon D70 Digital SLR camera, this summer on a 3 week trip to Europe (by train) I decided to travel light and left home my Nikon to use only my new Sony Camcorder: It's a great travel companion, light discrete and easy to use. Still photos are very acceptable. Video quality is simply breathtaking.
I've done editing on my G5 iMac using iMovies HD and it works just fine. Edited video needs to ...
[Sony HDV Digital Camcorder (HDRHC3) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 07/21/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (15 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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First and maybe my only! Bought this camera way back in April shortly after when it came out. Bought it just in time for my first born to join us in the world. The reason why I bought this camera is because it was cutting edge, and at the time, I was in a time crunch and knew that if I bought a SONY camera, then it will be a good buy. Well... its been 6 months now and I can tell you that this camera does rock. here are some things I had to buy for this camera (which by the way I bought for 1499 way back. now look a...
[Sony HDV Digital Camcorder (HDRHC3) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 11/08/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (13 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Superb quality at first glance... Opened up my HDR HC3K box last night. The HC3K just means that it has a few extra goodies (extra battery, sony HDV tape, cleaning tape). Initial impression even before turning on the camcorder was it felt solid in the hand and not too big. It felt a little more compact than the DVD based DVD405. Played with the controls for a few mins and then started shooting video in reasonable indoor lighting. Below are the pros and cons:
PROS:
1) Good indoor video performance: I had halog...
[Sony HDV Digital Camcorder (HDRHC3) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 09/14/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (12 of 12) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great Camcorder! I bought this camcorder in preparation for my son's birth. Even though it is expensive compared to most non-HD camcorders, I think the picture quality is well worth the price. The video is easily transferred into iMovie HD on a Mac and after some editing, I can burn it on a DVD!
There were some information that I couldn't find readily before I bought the camcorder... This camcorder works well with regular DV tapes. I didn't buy the "HD" DV tapes. The "HD" DV tape claims that it...
[Sony HDV Digital Camcorder (HDRHC3) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 08/30/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (10 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Very pleased with capabilities and ease of use In my house there is a constant battle between getting great hi tech gear and needing it to be easy to use. I am the geek and my wife if the "make it easy" person. This camcorder fits the bill for both. She gets the "easy" button and I can tweak the camera to a reasonable degree for someone who knows nothing about videotography. I know computers and once I get the video on the hard disk and into the editing software I can do what I want. With our kids we wanted something to capture memories...
[Sony HDV Digital Camcorder (HDRHC3) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 07/02/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (10 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Good quality video - especially outdoors I have had this camcorder for about 2 weeks now. Overall I'm pleased. Most of my video playback has been done via a Pioneer 50" plasma HDTV so I do have a very nice playback source to judge the recorded video quality.
Disclaimer - I am a novice photographer/videographer so people might correct my few gripes saying, "if you'd just set the flux capacitor settings to ...," but my review should be applicable to people that operate the camera in "easy" mode (all of my recordings have...
[Sony HDV Digital Camcorder (HDRHC3) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/12/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
98% (99 of 101) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Superb HD quality Just got this camera from amazon a day ago, and the performance is unmatched. I been waiting for an HD consumer camcoder to match my 2 year old HDTV for a while, and this one is perfect. Recorded footage in dusk lighting and its superb. I switched between Discovery HD theater Channel and my camcorder and both look the same quality. Definetly broadcast HD quality camera. Records to my old DV tapes just fine, easy to capture video in HDV ( sony vegas software), easy to hold, film, good image stabi...
[Sony HDV Digital Camcorder (HDRHC3) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 05/24/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
94% (16 of 17) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Wow! What an amazing camera! For myself, as a network television cameraman & editor, this is the best consumer video camera, for the money, that I have ever seen or used. The picture quality is so good that I have been using it a lot lately to shoot b-roll for a national television program and everyone from the producers to the technical staff have been genuinely impressed with the results. Sony should be charging a lot more money for this camera based on picture quality alone, not to mention the many great features it ha...
[Sony HDV Digital Camcorder (HDRHC3) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 11/23/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
93% (14 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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awesome camcorder this camcorder is great. low light recordinds are on the avg side, but when you go outside and film for example on a golf course, it looks super great. very nice design on this camera. it feels like a coke can with a handle.
the 4MP camera feature with flash is so nice. it takes great pictures and is real easy to operate.
make sure to get a longer lasting battery, as the standard battery doesnt last for too long. i got the LCSVA30 sony case and fits it perfectly. <...
[Sony HDV Digital Camcorder (HDRHC3) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 06/16/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
92% (13 of 14) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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awesome! After recording and playing video all weekend, my simple conclusion is this video camera is AWESOME. Yes it is expensive, but, WOW the pictures is fantastic when hooked up to my hi-def plasma or played back on my iMac. It is as small and light as any normal video camera. It takes regular DV tapes, and is easy to use and easy to play back on the TV with either HDMI or Component cables if you don't have HDMI.
If you are considering a new video camera, GET THIS CAMERA.
It i...
[Sony HDV Digital Camcorder (HDRHC3) review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 04/24/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
91% (66 of 72) Users Found This Review Helpful |