Sony Handycam® DCR-SR100 Camcorder

Pros: The luxury of quality, features and convenience with Sonys name behind it.
Cons: Luxury usually comes at a luxury price.

The Sony DCRSR100 is the best of Sony’s family of non-high def HDD (hard disk digital) Handycam Camcorders. Tremendously easy to use, with a level of quality and feature set which reaches into the midrange for camcorders available for the home ...

Pros: Pass through recording, great still and video quality.
Cons: bulkier than other hard drive models. Slightly more expensive.

Unit at a glance: LCD touch screens control of playback and recording. Recording to mpeg format video. Still picture capability. USB interface for easy transfer of video to your PC. Night shot and super night shot modes. Drop detector ...

Pros: Great size, easy to use, hard drive is a natural way to capture video
Cons: Still pictures take a few seconds to capture from time of pushing button

I recently bought the Sony DCR-SR100 Hard Disk Drive (HDD) based camcorder. I am impressed, Sony does a superior job with camcorders. I was replacing my broken Canon ZR80 which wasn't bad, but did turn out to be quite fragile (could be an isolated ...

Pros: Universal Mpeg2 format. Good video quality. Native 16:9 widescreen format.
Cons: Included battery yields only 40-minutes of continuous recording. Not a small as mini-DV units.

I waited almost five years before upgrading my first generation Sony digital 8-mm camcorder to a Sony hard drive camcorder. I looked really hard at the JVC Everio hard drive video cameras, but the reviews I read were less than spectacular. The Sony ...

Pros: Compact, video quality, hard drive, not many manual controls.
Cons: USB cable, no firewire.

First of all, I was looking for the camcorder which would perform good with minimum manual controls. All I wanted was to turn it on, press Record and that's it. I do like and know a lot about new technologies and how they work, however, I'm too lazy to ...

Pros: Ease of use, good picture quality
Cons: A bit pricey, heavy/bulky compared to other cameras

I am a complete novice when it comes to video cameras: prior to this one, I had never owned a video camera before, and my only experience with them was during a college course in the early 90s. Obviously the technology has come a long, long way. My ...

Pros: Hard drive storage, easy to use with minimal adjustments
Cons: none within a 3 week review period

Let me start this review by saying that I am using this camera as a loaner from my father-in-law. However, I have several hours of use. This camera does so much right, I can't even acknowledge anything that bugs me! I've used an old Hi8 Sony for ...

Pros: Awesome features, convenient and easy to use.
Cons: Expensive, but worth it.

This camcorder is one of the best electronics purchases I've ever made. The hard drive camcorder makes it SOOO much easier to use. Just grab the camcorder and go. No more worrying about having a clean disk or tape, or bringing extras, or losing them. ...

Pros: Tremendous capacity, can record up to 7 hours, or 10,000 still photos
Cons: Date and time does not displays at the recorded Images after transferring through USB.

Great capacity for Hard Disk which can record up to 7 hours in the hard drive, or 10,000 still photos. Video quality is good. The weight of the unit is OK.You can delete easily unwanted clips.The 3.0 mega-pixel still shot is OK.Whenever you start and ...

Pros: Very easy to use. Quality is good all over.
Cons: Blue tooth transmitter (optional XTRA) looks a bit of a fragile fit.Don't drop.

I bought this camera to get away from tape format,I will never go back to tape. The blue-tooth mic option is very useful as often the sound you want to record is not close enough to the optimal camera position. I love the touch screen as in my previous ...

Pros: Instant access hard drive,very long recording time, great color and resolution.
Cons: Could use one or two more buttons in lieu of menu items.

My seven year old Sony DCR-PC100 miniDV camcorder is beginning to show signs of wear, so I figured it was time to buy a backup unit. I didn't want to relive the miniDV tape experience for two reasons: the multi-step and time consuming DVD transfer ...