Sony HDR-CX100 AVCHD HD Camcorder with Smile Shutter & 10x Optical Zoom (Black) Top Quality

I purchased this camera because of the price, but this camcorder has a "good" with a "bad".

The good:
- Out doors with plenty of light the camera gives fantastic HD video! Even inside IF (and I mean a big if) you have much much light (like outdoors at daytime) the camera will give you a great picture.
-Very small camcorder is great to grab and go. I liked the smallness of it.
-Very easy to use. Just flip open and push record.
-I like the ease of snapping a picture during video taking or still shots.
-Charge held very good, although I did not record a full sporting event or anything like that. Simple family stuff.

The bad:
-Camcorder takes extremely grainy video if inside and not enough light. I was very disappointed in the poor quality. From decent lighting to hardly no lighting, the video was very grainy.
-Wish it had a larger memory (8 gb).

Overall, good camera, but with the poor photo quality indoors I did not want to keep considering the many events that I wanted to record indoors. I sent it back to Amazon for full refund which they refunded the full amount with shipping! A pleasure to do business with Amazon, which is why I have purchased the Sony Handycam HDR-CX500V 32 GB Flash High-Definition Camcorder from them. I am currently using it now and the low light videos are much much better. Obviously, this camera has many bells and whistle with a higher price tag, but was willing to pay the extra to record life moments in all situations with a very good picture. So far this camcorder is outstanding...Get more detail about Sony HDR-CX100 AVCHD HD Camcorder with Smile Shutter & 10x Optical Zoom (Black).