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The Following Review was Submitted By: Daniel Hansard

The In Depth Review:

Sony's DCR-PC55 MiniDV Handycam is a stylish shooting companion that's small and light enough to fit in your pants pocket. With a 10X optical zoom and a decent selection of automatic and manual shooting modes, the DCR-PC55 provides most of the capabilities of larger counterparts. Unfortunately, it compromises on video quality, which runs from mediocre under optimal conditions to poor in low light. So unless portability and style are your paramount concerns, you can do better than this.

The Sony Handycam DCR-PC55 is amazingly light and compact and looks as if it would feel more at home hanging out in a crowd of iPods than on a shelf with the other camcorders. It's small enough to fit, albeit tightly, in your jeans pocket, and weighs a mere 12.8 ounces with battery and tape installed. This camera goes for style as much as function, and comes in four colors: silver, red, black, and white. Despite its light weight, the camera feels very solid, which you'd expect when packing a camcorder into such a tight space.

The camcorder should be safe in your pocket, thanks to an automatic lens cover that closes when you turn the DCR-PC55 off. The three-inch LCD swings out of the side and must be swiveled 90 degrees for shooting, due to the camera's vertically oriented design. There's no electronic viewfinder, so you must always have the LCD open to frame your shots. The compact design can also be somewhat awkward to operate. While shooting, you must be very careful to avoid blocking the lens with your index finger. The camera's design also makes it somewhat harder to hold steady than a more traditional, horizontally oriented camcorder.

You access most functions using the LCD touch-screen menus. While this is simpler than hunting for the right control on camcorders that boast 20 or more dedicated buttons, it takes longer to drill through the menus than it would if there were dedicated controls available for common functions. At least the primary menu is customizable, so you can put your most commonly used functions on the first few pages.

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