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Sony's Wow! VX-2100 great video camera!
Date of Review: Jun 8, 2006
The Bottom Line: I highly recommend this video camera to professionals, or people who take videos seriously.
I want to give a rave review on the Sony's VX-2100. I've had it for over a year now, and can say it's definitely one of the best dv professional camcorders out there. And for about $2200 it's really got great value!
I've made a lot of wedding videos from it, to anniversaries, and even did a lot of family videos with it. My wife was really amazed! When we got the ol' hi-8 films out on tape, we were convinced that there is no comparison, at all!
It's one of the, if not the best dv camcorder out there with the lowest low light (1 lux) in the industry.
The manual functions are a must, I don't depend upon auto settings, except the auto focus is very nice! I would highly recommend, with any new piece of equipment to really get to know your equipment well before you plan on using it professionally.
If you want to go into videography, along with some practice, talent and skills, this is the camera to buy. I was recommended this camera, and bought it because he uses similar sony cameras(vx-2000) I thought I would try to go cheap, and ended up sending the dv cameras back.
It's an investment, maybe to others it's just another toy. but for me I wanted to invest in something that when my customers get their final dvd back to them, they can be happy about the quality, the low light feature(because at those wedding halls, it gets dark!) You have to test one out to see what I'm saying, it's another one of those "gotta see it to believe it".
On that note, when I was getting to know the camera, I was amazed on how the low light feature works!
The camera is rugged, most likely not going to break. That's unless you drop the camera 10 feet above concrete, so will any other camera do the same.
For those who are artsy freaks, there are some cool polarazation, bw, modes there to really make your films quite unique.
It does have an "on-camera" mic, but I think I would eventually replace it with something more telescopic, and made for better sound.
It even has volume meters: You can manually adjust when the sound gets too soft, or loud, and adjust it accordingly.
