Sony HDR-SR12

+ AMazing picture quality, makes even a boring holiday interesting to watch! :D

- Menu can be a little fiddly at time but that could just be me liking to operate quickly via buttons rather than a slightly slower touch screen. WORST POINT: The built in speaker for listening to playback is position among the buttons to the right of the folded out touchscree. The speaker is really quite good and I was rathe rimpressed by the quality, BUT it is a completely directional speaker, and then you hold the camera with the screen in front of your eyes the speaker is not pointing in your direction and therefore you cannot hear the audio. Therefore great video and audio playback on the camera with a good touchscreen to view on as well as the speaker, but they are mutually exclusive! Verry happy with my camera, I paid £835delivered from the first website it was available from in the UK. Little expensive as a first adopter but I wanted it for my holiday the week after

+ High quality stills either extracted from video footage or as a stand alone digital still camera, so there is no need to carry two cameras. Ability to transfer footage from hard disc to memory stick.

- Can't change the battery while using a tripod. No memory stick supplied with the camcorder.

+ quick easy shooting.good clear image an a excellent camara and tons of memory

- a bit complacated.still trying to put on disc.it wont convert what was rec on hd into standard to put on disc.

+ Brilliant images

- Too big to fit in a pocket, autofocus can be slow at high zoom on difficult subject

+ the best camcorder i have ever owned i like everything about it, the stills are fantastic. i would highly recomend this product.

- no bad points.

+ Neat and compact design, with excellent picture and sound quality and easy menu system.

- No sholder strap provided, Sony says this is optional in the manual, but donot sell one as an accessory. Touch screen marks easly with finger marks, better with optional screen protector sold as an accessory, but exspensive for what they are. Should be supplied with camera.

+ Very crisp video quality even on standard recording mode & with huge hard drive disk.

- You'll need a back up battery as it only runs approximately 110 minutes even with the LCD off with the supplied NP-FH70.

+ Image quality, ease of use and the feel of quality etc

- Lack of HDMI cable and expense

+ Small, lightweight with excellent picture quality

- None noticed as yet!

+ The camcorder does everything one could expect and more. Perhaps the best piece of photographic kit ever made. It takes videos in extremely poor lighting conditions in colour and in green in the dark with the help of its infra red source. 10 megapixel stills are superb. The quality of HD videoss when viewed on a high definition TV screen is perfect. There is a huge hard drive, but it will also use 8 gig memory sticks. The SR12E has a remote control.

- Just one tiny fault. When using the red button on the camera to operate it (as oppsed to using the button on the LCD screen) it is difficult to stop the recording without jerking the camera. A squeeze trigger would have been ideal.

+ ease of use, image quality.

- battery life with the normal battery is pity. optional battery a must and it delivers upto 6 hours of recording which is great.

+ HD Quality is amazing

- Editing the movies on a mac is difficult and expensive. I had to buy a whole new Mac Book as rendering the AVCHD files you need a powerful PC or Mac but if you want to just burn home DVD's it's great

+ good design and easy to use quality of picture is exceptioal

- Reviewer left no comment

+ very easy to use great picture quality good sound not to heavy

- why not include hdmi cable or sony memory stick pretty much essential items for any real user and why pictures not widescreen

+ clarity good easy to use all functions ok easy to work and download

- a bit slow on focusing especialy in dark areas

+ easy to use picture perfect.

- none found yet

+ Easy handling and the capability of taking stills when recording. Picture and video quality is very good but that I would expect from a High Def. camcorder anyway. The build-in editing features are handy. And the hard drive - no more tapes!!!

- Apart from cable and cradle no accessories. A small bag could be included in the price and/or a memory stick.

+ Neat HD quality.

- As with all Sony Cameras Memory sticks are expencive.

+ an excellent camera and easy to use.

- viewfinder hood too small, letsto much light in around the edge.

+ image

- technical

+ small, compact, east to use - turn it on and its ready

- haven't found any yet

+ really easy to use. Battery charges up pretty quickly. Face detection feature pretty good. Nightshot i sgood also.

- only gripe so far is that battery life isn't the best. probably need to buy an extra battery so you don't lose power half way through the birthday party, christening etc

+ Practice makes perfect. There are a great number of features that are available. The basic mode is practical for most situations.

- To get to some of the features avaiable you have to go through tyhe menu system which takes a bit of time to get used to.

+ HD is excellent

- Hand strap bites even when you think it's adjusted correctly , might be me but I think an extra 2 - 3 mm width would be an advantage