Summary: I was going to Vegas and needed a camera/camcorder, I saw the Sony DCR-SX45 Handycam; took it to Vegas and WOW.....the pictures....Great; the video.....
It works great and I got it for a good price, but . . .
K. Bird "kkelley", Amazon
3 weeks ago
Summary: It's not HD, so the video quality isn't super like I was used to seeing. I got it as a refurbished camcorder, and it's everything I was looking for within my budget...
Summary: It's small in size, fits perfectly in hand, and easy to use. Comes with a USB to easliy transfer video into a computer. You will need a memory card.
Summary: I purchased this camcorder to capture those important moments in my children's lives. This is my eldest son's senior year in high school and I wanted to capture more than...
Excerpt: You get what you pay for. The camcorder is reliable and steady but video quality is far from HD. My smart phone has a better picture and zoom, so I use it whenever I need a quality picture. There really is NO optical zoom and the digital zoom degrades the picture. Color reproduction is decent, better with white balance. No manual overrides. Sound quality is decent. Enclosed software is workable but has a few problems, like crappy conversion to avi or mpg (several videos ruined before I made backup copies). Still, for the price, it's worthwhile as a learning experience, as a first investment and to find out what my next step will be. I'm most disappointed by company support; the forum managers might answer your question but forget about getting any follow up, and the other people who read the forum were as dumb as me--so no answers.