James Murray’s review of Sony’s digital camcorder, the DCR-HC96, is a zinger. As usual on CamcorderInfo, the review is very in-depth and thorough. The conclusion?
The DCR-HC96 takes great video, of that we have no doubt. The 1/3″ chip really packs in the quality. And low light performance was excellent. That alone might be worth of cost of purchase. But if the HC90 is still available (and it must be found somewhere), you’d have a hard case to make that the HC96 is the better buy. Not only did they remove all the ports from the body, but by putting them on the Handycam station, you now have one more thing to lug around in the camera bag. And despite Sony’s claim that the body shrunk on all their MiniDV cams, the new model is actually larger and heavier than its predecessor. This is not what we would call “progress.”
