'The HDR-CX160 features several automated modes for better recording, including Optical SteadyShot for more stable videos, Tracking Focus to keep focus on a moving object, and Wind Noise Reduction. '
Great battery life
Excellent image quality and Exmor R CMOS sensor offers great low-light video recording.
'Like many ultracompact models, they really do seem optimized for shooting below eye level, or at least holding the camcorder as if you are; the traditional grip simply isn't comfortable. '
'solid video performance'
'Compact size.'
'Sony has put the worst video quality setting as default here and I don’t know why they did it. '
'The bad: Annoying menu system; no wind filter or meaningful audio controls; relatively big and heavy; expensive; defaults to low resolution, not-full-HD video quality; cumbersome touch-screen interface. '
'The CX550V has a nice array of features including manual focus, aperture and shutter control, and multi-channel audio recording. '
'colours are warm and well saturated – reds particularly eye popping and skin tones bright and healthy looking – with detail and sound impressively clear when viewed back on a flat panel telly.'
'The 1/8-inch CCD sensor is substantially smaller and lower resolution than the 1/4-inch Exmor R CMOS found elsewhere in the Sony lineup.'
'The Sony SD 80GB Hard Drive Digital Camcorder, Model: DCR-SR68/L features a massive internal storage drive, Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens and a touch-screen interface for extreme user friendliness. '
