Best Camcorders - SP Recording Speed, 13 to 24 x Optical Zoom, 5 to 7 in. Depth

'pricier than the competition'

'The picture looks a little oversaturated'

'While the menu is great for navigating a menu, it's a poor interface for making fine adjustments to focus.'

'Stills are recorded to discs and unfortunately are fairly poor.'

'viewing and transferring of data can still be troublesome because the DVD-RAM discs require special DVD-RAM compatible DVD players for viewing and dubbing.'

'The manual focus control on the DZ-MV730 is its worst manual control and is practically unusable.'

'The video quality is equally poor, however.'

'Playback, effects, focus, and other nearby buttons are nearly impossible to navigate without looking at the controls.'

'its low light performance needs improvement and the Set Dial can be difficult to access at times'

'poor button layout'

'Cons Tape loads from the bottom.'

'The ZR400, unfortunately, does not have stellar manual control'

'Low light performance was generally poor'

'the button placement is awkward, but with a little practice the user can make those adjustments with ease.'

'Wimpy battery'

'Differentiation between color gradations became challenging; even in the grayscale, it was tough to discern where the tones altered.'

'The viewfinder is unfortunately stationary'

'Unfortunately, it has inherited many of last year's features, the most significant of which is the 1/6” CCD with 340K effective pixels.'

'a useless LCD'