Sony DCR-HC21 MiniDV Handycam Camcorder w/20x Optical Zoom | 
 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: Photography
List Price: $399.99
Buy Used: $130.00
You Save: $269.99 (67%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 2697
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Optical Zoom: 20
Display Size: 2.5
Maximum Focal Length: 46
Minimum Focal Length: 2.3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 6 x 5.3
MPN: DCRHC21
Model: DCRHC21
UPC: 027242669819
EAN: 0027242669819
ASIN: B0007M3PK8
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 1/6-inch CCD imager with 340K resolution | | • | MiniDV recording format offers up to 520 lines of horizontal resolution | | • | 20x optical zoom with Super SteadyShot picture-stabilization system | | • | 2.5-inch touch-panel SwivelScreen LCD | | • | Super NightShot Plus Infrared System captures natural-looking video in low light |
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Product Description
The DCR-HC21 from Sony gives you a full-featured, compact MiniDV camcorder at an entry-level price. Highlights include the Advanced HAD CCD imager, which captures stunning detail and clarity, and the Digital Zoom, which focuses on distant subjects providing clear close-up images with less distortion. The Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens offers less glare and increased contrast for vivid, more life-like color and tones.Make your personal videos complete with additional customization features such as Picture and Fader effects for creative and professional looking enhancements. Photo Mode allows you to capture and store hundreds of individual still images, and Picture Package software helps you easily organize and edit still images and video.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 46 more reviews...
 Don't buy this camcorder!!!! November 29, 2008
I had a similar experience with my Sony HC21. After less than two years the CCD failed and all I have is a a black to dark grey image. Sony refuses to accept responsibility for this flaw in their CCD. Do not buy this camcorder. My next camcorder will not be a Sony.
Horrible Camcorder October 1, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I used this camera a handful of times, I noticed that the lcd and viewfinder was black. I was able to hear audio but no video. I did some research and found out Sony had a lawsuit against them regarding the CCD on some of their cameras. Well they refused to fix the DCR HC21 because it was not on their list but the problem was exactly the same. I will never buy another Sony product again.
Sony's focus on repair revenue? August 5, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the first Sony product I've ever bought - paid $400 and a year later paid $310 to fix dead firewire port that only successfully completed one video transfer from camera to computer. It took them 3 months to fix it. How can I possibly buy another Sony?
No external mike port????? May 12, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this camera a year ago for general family use. For that purpose, this camera is fine (a wider angle lens would have been nice). Its color capture is great, it's ergonomic, light weight, everything a camcorder should be--with one major exception.
No EXTERNAL MICROPHONE PORT!!!
Big deal. So what? The built in mike is mediocre at best. If you need to isolate a set of sounds or voices (say, recording a small group conversation, or interviewing someone in public), you're screwed--because this camcorder lacks the one feature included on most camcorders since the invention of camcorders--an external microphone port. Instead, they include a LANC port (not for microphones) that you can use to sync together multiple Sony camcorders. Most people I've talked to (including the store that sold me the camcorder) have no idea what a LANC port is nor what it does.
A microphone port would have made this camcorder functionally complete. Sony engineers included one on all of the other DCR-HC series--why not this one?
Dirty pool, Sony. Dirty pool indeed.
 Great camera January 9, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The camera is great, the image cuality is awesome and the conection to the computer trough digital cable absolutely aginst dummys.
I recomend it.
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