written by PVaru2005 on 30/12/2004
Had a Sony DCR-HC40ES for about 6 months now and it is good for first time camcorder users but having now used it sufficiently, I'm sorry to say it is not worth buying the HC40 when you can buy the cheaper models. The megapixel CCD is nothing more than a advert slogan the quality in outdoor conditions is good but as soon as you go indoors, the picture gets blurry and poor quality not what sony camcorders are about. The functions like manual focus can only be accessed through touchng the LCD screen and when recording it tends to come up on the audio everytime you touch the screen. I wouldn't recommend this to any camcorder hobbist as the quality when editing it on the PC is not what I expected before I ordered it.
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Hammers1957's Response to PVaru2005's Review
Written on: 20/03/2005
I have tranferred all my holiday from wdw onto pc then onto dvd, using a firewire card to get the best results and I don't think I can say a bad word against it, don't know if the writer of the above was using usb2 but that is not upto scratch.