This Handycam felt rock solid and provided the best optical image stabilization. Its stop/start button is in the perfect place, but the zoom control is positioned right where your middle finger rests-bad idea.

Rock-solid; good optical image stabilization; "easy" mode; great video quality

Awkwardly placed zoom button; stop button delay.

Sony HRD-SR7 is best for every occasion and could capture memories to last a lifetime. With a 60GB built-in hard drive to store quality images and excellent videos, this handy cam does everything. The SR7 delivers 8 hours of HD video.

Sony's HDR-SR7 records high definition video onto a built-in 60GB hard drive. This first look review takes a look at the specs for this hard drive camcorder.

not the best quality camcorder for the price but great for ghost hunters who need night vision. Build in hard drive makes things super easy. Charging dock is annoying and takes up a lot of extra space when they could have just made a small battery charger.

Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comfortable to Operate; Great Picture Quality; Simple Controls

small buttons on screen

Sony, getting better all the time: This is not my first video camera, I started about 20 years ago with the Betamovie and with it I've made videos with such good quallity that I didn't change it by the next one, the Video 8 because it still wasn't better until the first Hi8 appeared which was really...

The Sony Handycam HDR-SR7E delivers cutting-edge capabilities along with high-quality high definition video. Its great HD experience is buoyed by plenty of manual controls and with a comfortable experience through a touchscreen interface and small stature, you'll be floating along

Satisfying photo quality; A decent set of manual controls for the target audience; Bundled dock

No wind filter; No USB port on camcorder; just on bundled dock; Cables not ubiquitous yet for mini-HDMI connector

A high end HD camcorder that provides stunning quality HD to a 60gb HDD so it is easy to transfer all the captured videos to a pc. The camcorder is in a glossy black casing covered with all the buttons you might expect on a camcorder, zoom, record, pause and so on.

Quality; HDD rather than tape; zoom

cost; fiddly touch screen

A previous reviewer made the point that the end filesize (per hour) when compared with tape based HDV proved that the 7E was inferior by a sigificant amount. Not true. I think that the end result is marginally inferior to HDV - but not much and the camera is MUCH more convenient.

I was actually looking for a video camera, and I think Sony is the way to go, as I have many of their products already.