I bought this camera to be able to record video in Full HD 50 frames / sec. Prior to that, I used a Canon PowerShot SX230 HS Black compact digital camera since 2022, which I shot video in HD 29 frames / sec. (the old Full HD digital camera writes only 25 fps, which no longer suits me). When filming with the Sony HDR-CX405 in sunny weather, the videos seemed to be of quite normal quality at first. Once, when I took the camera to shoot in cloudy weather, I ran into serious problems: the camera recorded all the videos with video noise that simply spoiled the whole picture, while in some places there was no clarity during the zoom (digital zoom was disabled) - it was impossible to read a single one inscription, which is located on slightly distant objects. As a result, most of the valuable videos that I shot that day were simply ruined by the lousy recording quality of this camera. After that, I came to the conclusion that this camera shoots video much worse than my old Canon PowerShot SX230 HS digital camera, which even records video in HD 30 frames / sec, but with significant clarity and without video noise. I highly do not recommend this camcorder for those who are fond of video filming: the manufacturer saved on everything that was possible and at the same time, as always, presented everything very beautifully, so that they would only buy.