Easy to use
Small, compact design
Good automatic features
Poor video quality
Limited manual controls
Feels cheap
In a world of rapidly burgeoning technology, the Sony DCR-HC36 ($400 MSRP) opts for the safe route. The HC36 and Sony’s entry-level HC26 share numerous core elements such as a standard 1/6” CCD chip, touch screen menu, limited manual controls...
Low cost; small size; light and easy to carry; easy to use.
Comparatively mediocre video quality; awful still-image quality.
The Sony DCR-HC36 MiniDV Handycam is a budget camcorder that takes adequate video in daylight, but its poor performance in low light will be a problem if you want to shoot videos indoors—at a party, for instance.
Abstract: Sony DCR-HC36 MiniDV Handycam This low-cost MiniDV camcorder is easy to use, but video taken in low light is of below-average quality. At $400 (as of 5/2/06), the Sony DCR-HC36 is very affordable. But, unfortunately, it produced some of the lowest-qual...
