 Great little camera, forget the bundled software though |
| Review Date: October 5, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Gadget Junky, UK |
Where do I start?
Amazon. Bought it here because they offered it for £377 rather then £599 in the shops. Plus I got the £50 cashback from Sony, this made it £327, for that price, I thought I'd give it a go...
I used the camera for a few weeks, getting used to what it could do and found it simple to use and about the right size for carrying around on my belt for those 'wish I had my camera moments'. By the way, don't buy the recommended bag, it's far too big. I bought this bag and now use it to store the charger etc.
The little Sony bags made for the Cybershot cameras fit the CX105 much better.
I am going to avoid going into detail about the camera itself, many other reviews here have covered that much bettter than I ever could. Instead I am going to go over the issues I found after living with this camera for a while.
After reading the reviews here, confirmed by my trials of the camera, I bought an extra battery. The standard size one fits nicely in the cybershot case too, anything bigger would not.
Be wary if you buy the 16GB memory stick to go with this camera, I bought one from a reseller here because Amazon was out of stock and they sent me the version that does not have the external usb adaptor. When I contacted them, they said Sony had stopped selling the one with the adaptor. Funny that as 2 days later Amazon got the item back in stock and are still advertising it with the adaptor. Is Amazon breaking trading standards advertising guidelines or is the reseller telling me porkys, you decide.
Anyway back to the camera. As others have said, it is not great in low light but this is easily solved. As the event I was going to recording was to be at night (Singapore GP) I was a bit concerned about how it would fair. The solution is to be found by buying a wide-angle lense, this allows more light into the sensor and provides much better images in low light conditions. I saw these lenses on amazon but did not buy one here as I wanted to see if the difference was noticable. My lense was demonstrated to me in a little shop in Chinatown (Singapore) and blew me away with the difference it made to indoor/low light filming. Using such a lense does reduce the zoom distance but this was not a problem when I used it to record the event.
In the title I mentioned forgetting the bundled software. I admit I have only used it once so it might get better with more experience.. If you want to make good videos/dvds with this (or any other camera) I recommend getting an iMac. For more years than I care to remember, I have been a PC follower but my recent purchase of an iMac has shown me the light. Imagine a world where you plug in your new camera, don't have to install a driver or any software and the computer says 'new pictures/event found, would you like them importing' then being able to drag section of clips into a video timeline, press one button and hey-presto you have a DVD of your footage. A techno-phobes dream. If you want to get more creative you can, the tools are all there and they just work quickly and effortlessly.
In short, the camera is great for the money I paid, small enough to be practical, quality of footage is better than anything else I have ever owned, the battery is OK but you should have a second one, the software is not the best and if you can, get an iMac to use for video editing. |
Small case for HDRCX105ES
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| Review Date: August 5, 2009 |
| Reviewer: A. I. PULLEY, UK |
| I bought the recomended LCS-X10 case for this camera and its far too big. This camera is tiny and I guess you could use the LCS-X10 for the camera, cables and PSU, but it would still be too big and you'd have the mains plug in the bag able to damage the camera. I wanted a case that was as small as possible and the 'Sony LCS-CSJ Soft Carry Case For Cybershot' case does the job. Its a nice tight fit, the case it pretty tough and there is a pocket to take a spare battery and memory card if you want. Just the job |
CX105ES
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| Review Date: January 26, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Steveo, UK |
Today I took the CX105ES out for a test drive to my local park, Ducks Swans water fountains ect ect, the day was quite sunny and after returning I watched the footage back on my Samsung 8000 Led TV via HDMI connection and I was blown away by the stunning quality, picture was very vivid which I like about Sony, after a while I realized I had left the camcorder on the Default sp mode, and had not been shooting in FH quaility, even on the sp mode it is stunning. £351.90 plus a £60 cashback from Sony, this is a no brainer.
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