The video camera is good but not great. Of course it's not expensive, but for the money you can find much better ones on ebay. 1/6 inch CCD is average for this price range. It has no microphone input. But it lasts long enough on battery, has acceptable quality of light when I use two or more lights. For my film, which is a musical. You notice that frames with fast sequences appear jagged and not smooth. It should have been fixed in the post that if you're only paying Β£250 for this camera you probably won't waste time fixing it in the mail. The manual white balance is good.