Sony Handycam DCR SR57

Ease of set up and use. Simple. clear instructions help, of course. The camera is light and easy to hold and all the main functions ate at your finger tips. A very handy cam indeed. My first use of the camera was at the Olympic Games athletics. For my...

None that I have found as yet. The only difficulty I have had with the camera thus far is with the idiot behind it! There is, of course, always the problem that while one is concentrating on filming, one isn't really concentrating properly on whatever...

Ease of set up and use. Simple. clear instructions help, of course. The camera is light and easy to hold and all the main functions ate at your finger tips. A very handy cam indeed. My first use of the camera was at the Olympic Games athletics. For my...

None that I have found as yet. The only difficulty I have had with the camera thus far is with the idiot behind it! There is, of course, always the problem that while one is concentrating on filming, one isn't really concentrating properly on whatever...

Takes good quality images. Fairly easy to operate with out having to understand all the blurb ( it is forgotten by the time I want to use it). I can carry it all day discretely in the palm of my hand ready for use.

Like other cameras/ camcorders without a viewfinder it is very difficult to use in sunlight as the viewing screen become invisible.

Takes good quality images ; Fairly easy to operate with out having to understand all the blurb ( it is forgotten by the time I want to use it) ; I can carry it all day discretely in the palm of my hand ready for use

Like other cameras/ camcorders without a viewfinder it is very difficult to use in sunlight as the viewing screen become invisible

it's light and easy to use to take pictures or film

to edit and delete images or film, the tools are tricky and the touch screen is only for the tiniest of fingers. The image quality of the photographs is disasterous - the film quality is as expected - not great but fine but photographs are not very...

Light, quite easy to use once the menus and settings are understood. Picture quality, I cannot say as I have had a great deal of difficulty in trying to edit the footage and get it on to a DVD.

No viewfinder. I really miss this especialyy when the sun is behind you, which is where you like it to be on most ocassions. Software is complicated and not a deal of use to me. I prefer a video editing suite so have had to purchase Vegas Movie Studio...

Extreme difficulty in downloading into iMac. Seems Sony and Apple are not compatible. Very disappointing.

Very compact, good recording quality in normal light conditions

Poor sound and recording quality and low light conditions, and no external accessories available for this model (e.g. microphone)

As Above

Still images are poor and movie images are not much better. I was hoping just to carry this camera when out and about but I still have to carry my old still digital camera to get acceptable results

can not see subject throuh vuefineder in bright daylight.Just my own reflection.