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Rick Rizner
Although the Sony DCR-HC42 is a lightweight in both price and heft, it's far from lightweight in quality. In our tests, we rated the $560 DCR-HC42 the second-best performer. The DCR-HC42 produced great-looking video in our tests, with smooth movement; it also captured strong, accurate colors, even under difficult lighting conditions such as indoors under fluorescent lights.
Unfortunately, the still images the camera takes were a little disappointing--very fuzzy, with bland colors. The camcorder can record still images to a Memory Stick Pro Duo card at a maximum resolution of 1152 by 864 (about 1 megapixel); although having the option to take...