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Ease of use	8.8
Image quality	9.2
Battery life	7.5
Weight	8.2
Value for money	8.3
Overall rating	8.8

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Confirmed purchaser Keen amateur

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: Size, ease of use, battery life and most important quality of result..
Bad points:: Placement of controls could be better..

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	10.0
Battery life	9.0
Weight	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 24 Aug 2010

Aashish, London Keen amateur

Score 7.0/10

Good points:: 1. GPS with built in maps
2. Very less buttons to operate
3. HD quality video
4. Shakeless video's
5. HDMI port to directly attach to LCD TV
Bad points:: 1. Very costly
2. Included Batttery life is less
3. No free accessories

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	10.0
Battery life	7.0
Weight	8.0
Value for money	6.0
Overall rating	7.0

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Confirmed purchase: 23 May 2011

sanjay, Experienced amateur

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: The image quality is very good.Handling is pretty intuitive.
Bad points:: Zoom function can be a bit difficult to control.It takes time to master to smoothen the zoom.As always you can never be satisfied with the battery life, as you are left are wanting more.PMB software needs improvement.

Ease of use	8.0
Image quality	7.0
Battery life	5.0
Weight	7.0
Value for money	8.0
Overall rating	8.0

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Confirmed purchase: 21 Mar 2012

Mike, london Just point and shoot

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: It is very easy to use and set up. It has a 160GB hard drive.
Bad points:: Reviewer left no comment

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	10.0
Battery life	7.0
Weight	6.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 17 Aug 2011

Confirmed purchaser

Score 6.0/10

Good points:: its a sony
Bad points:: battery life

Ease of use	5.0
Image quality	8.0
Battery life	3.0
Weight	5.0
Value for money	6.0
Overall rating	6.0

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Confirmed purchase: 12 Mar 2011

pankaj , Crawley

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: very good wide angle.
Bad points:: The flash does not work with camcorder.

Ease of use	10.0
Image quality	9.0
Battery life	7.0
Weight	8.0
Value for money	5.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 11 Dec 2010

Stewart, Manchester Keen amateur

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: Easy to use and set up. Great picture quality
Bad points:: Reviewer left no comment

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	9.0
Battery life	7.0
Weight	7.0
Value for money	8.0
Overall rating	8.0

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Confirmed purchase: 10 Aug 2010

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Product Features

Resolution quality	Full HD
Resolution quality can be standard definition (SD), High Defintion (HD) or Full High Definition (HD). SD camcorders will have 480 horizontal lines of resolution whereas HD camcorders can have up to 1080. The more lines of resolution you have, the sharper your video will look. Full HD refers to camcorders that record in 1920 × 1080 resolution.
3D	No

Optical zoom ratio	12
The amount by which the camera optics (lens) can bring the subject closer.
Media format	Hard disk drive
This is the type of storage that your digital camera or camcorder uses to save images to. The main types of card media format: Compact Flash Micro SD MMC (Multi Media Card) SD Card (Secure Digital) SDHC (Secure Disk High Capacity)
Connections	USB

Type of memory card	SD

Type of memory card	SDHC

Shape of camcorder	Horizontally held

Digital zoom ratio	160
Not to be confused with optical zoom, digital zoom enlarges a portion of the image thus simulating optical zoom. In doing so, some image quality is lost.
Type of image stabiliser	Optical
If a photo is taken at a slow shutter speed, or at a long focal length, the effects of ‘hand shake’ will be amplified. Some cameras come with built-in image stabilisation which is designed to act against this to produce sharper images. It’s great for low light shots without a tripod, like at a gig.
Widescreen recording	Yes
Resolution (Megapixels)	7.1

Hard disk capacity (Gigabytes)	160
Hard Disk capacity is measured in GBs which stands for Gigabytes. A gigabyte is 1000 MB or megabytes. The more GB you have the more info like photos and music you can store.
Shortest shutter speed (Fractions of a second)	1/425
This is the fastest speed at which the camera can take a photo. Faster shutter speeds really freeze the action and are great for sports photography.
Weight (g)	390
The weight of the product in grams.
Screen size (Inches)	2.7
Screen size is measured diagonally from corner to corner.
Maximum aperture telephoto	3.4
Maximum aperture wide	1.8

Lowest focal length (Millimetres)	29.8

Type of chip	CMOS

Release date	2010-03-30
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.

Also known as: Sony HDR-XR350E, Sony HDR-XR350V

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