Reviews for Sony Handycam DCR-HC62 Digital Camcorder

Good value camcorder for home videos

Strengths: Good performance/$; decent low light performance; minimal tape motor noise contamination; viewfinder zoom/record buttons; simple operations

Weakness: Limited manual shutter speed control; touchscreen menu may frustrate some

Great performance overall. Its biggest weakness in the shrinking class of budget miniDV camcorders is the lack of manual shutter speed control. Instead shutter speed is altered via preset "SCENES". How much this impacts you depends on what environments you film in and whether Sony's preset values are satisfactory. The LCD touchscreen menu frustrates some, but personally I have no problems with it and find it generally easy to use and very responsive. I also like the zoom/record buttons located on the viewfinder which allows for more stable recordings (I find it hard to keep the camcorder absolutely still using the top-mounted buttons with the right hand).

I bought the Sony over Canon due to lack of tape motor noise and better low light performance. I also recommend getting the HC62 over HC52 due to a superior CCD. The battery life is acceptable.

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Sony DCR-HC62

The Sony DCR-HC62 is a miniDV camcorder that retails for $300 and was released in 2005. It has a 25x optical zoom and a 2000x digital zoom, a 2.7" LCD screen, and USB streaming capabilitiy. At its price it comes as one of the more expensive miniDV cameras across the different brands such as Canon, Panasonic, and Samsung (were prices typical range from $300 to $400). That could be explained by the...

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