Sony DCR-HC21

alaTest has collected and analyzed 164 user reviews of Sony DCR-HC21 from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 3.3/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.9/5 for other Camcorders on Amazon.com. People really like the size and price. The image quality and portability also get good opinions, but many are critical about the connectivity and memory.

The DCR-HC21 is Sony's lowest-end MiniDV camcorder this year. It has horrible low light performance, though it does well in bright light environments. It also has great automatic controls, but poor manual controls. See a pattern emerging?

Sony's DCR-HC21 fills out the bottom rung of Sony's new MiniDV hierarchy this year. Released at CES early this January, The DCR-HC21 shares many specifications with last year's DCR-HC20, with a few upgrades. Most of these upgrades, however, are...

We assessed the DCR-HC21's color and video quality at optimal, bright light conditions of 3000 lux in a controlled testing environment. The results were similar to last year's DCR-HC20, which makes sense as the two camcorders share imager specifications

Sony DCR-HC21 MiniDV Handycam Camcorder w/20x Optical Zoom.

Sony camcorders have a problem that Sony refuses to acknowledge, despite overwhelming evidence from people who have bought their camcorders that this is a manufacturing defect. There are well over 10,000 incidents of the same error code on Sony ...

I purchased the sony handycam dcr-hc21 fresh from the box about a year ago for 420.00 from walmart and has worked great every time!it also comes with a program on a cd called picture package witch helps you making video's looking @ pictures….ect. the...