Hitachi DZ-BX35E

usability, price, zoom, size, portability

image quality, reliability, memory

59% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Relatively compact, this moderately priced DVD camcorder is easy to use, offers the convenience of burning to mini DVD, and has a strong, 25X optical zoom lens.

Writing to disc takes time, the autofocus is sluggish, and the image stabilization does little to compensate for camera shake.

For a moderate price, you get the convenience of recording your video directly to DVD media, but the entry-level Hitachi DZ-BX35A offers only basic features and can't deliver the image quality of Hitachi's step-up DVD camcorders.

Relatively compact, this moderately priced DVD camcorder is easy to use, offers the convenience of burning to mini DVD, and has a strong, 25X optical zoom lens.

Writing to disc takes time, the autofocus is sluggish, and the image stabilization does little to compensate for camera shake.

For a moderate price, you get the convenience of recording your video directly to DVD media, but the entry-level Hitachi DZ-BX35A offers only basic features and can't deliver the image quality of Hitachi's step-up DVD camcorders.

I am very happy with the product!

I like the smallness of the DVDCAM

The switches for on and off are far too close together

It looks nice

Image quality indoors is really bad - its good outside, but of course we want to capture indoor events too, and the quality is so poor.

Small and easy to use. Great to be able to view recording on small screen.

Wish zoom button had been placed in a different place.

compact, light and easy to carry and use

as we have not used it a great deal we cannot comment on this as yet.

light weight and simple to use

none so far

This is a very easy to use, lightweight camera which has everything I need on it: a video camera and a digital camera. Its nice to look at and easy to hold, a very good buy.