This Sony camera is a good addition to the Sony range, a kind of replacement for the HVR-V1u, which only records to MemoryStick and no tape SD -Cards. ribbons. It was released around March 2010 and mainly competes with the Panasonic HMC-150, which has similar features. Here are the benefits as I see it: * A lens with a wider field of view than many other cameras, which is good for indoors and video recording. But not much wider than the HMC-150.* 20x zoom, which is very nice. Only the canonsโฆ