Review on Sony FDR-AX53 Black Camcorder: High-Quality Recording and Stunning Clarity by Athit Samatiyadekul ᠌

I bought the camera based on the experience of owning the HDR-SR12 and HDR-CX700. As a result, I was almost completely disappointed. I understand that I myself should have been more careful when buying, but the lack of a built-in drive puzzled me, moreover, already at home. I already bought the camera for ~90.000 (now it costs ~70.000), but in the end it cost me another 10.000 more. For the same reason, I was very surprised not to find a flash on the camera. Manually adjusting the sound recording level unexpectedly simply lowers the volume of the sound being recorded. If the sound is too loud, such as at a concert, overdriven sound will be recorded, but according to the manually set level. Why did it do that is the question. The camera lens is placed in a stabilizer, hanging, apparently, in a magnetic field. Such a funny eye. Not the point. It saves from small camera shake, but if you shoot handheld with maximum zoom, then you need to follow the subject as smoothly as possible, because the stabilizer, when moving the camera, brings the lens in the direction of shooting gradually, with the risk of overtaking it and eventually leaving it outside the frame. Perhaps you can get used to this. Perhaps the next camera jamb is related to the memory card used in it (Samsung, we don’t like each other from the very beginning, but they were the only ones who offered suitable 128 GB cards - it doesn’t make sense to put less in this camera), but very often the camera is not able to show what it just shot itself - it says some kind of mistake, your video is not readable. Very uncomfortable. When transferred to a computer, everything opens and shows. I hope I just haven't figured out how to do it yet, but it looks like the camera still doesn't know how to edit video internally, at least XAVC. For me, this is another big inconvenience. Doesn't record subtitles with date and time if you shoot in XAVC - perhaps this is the cost of the MP4 container. But next to the video file, it puts XML with some data, including the date and time of shooting. There is no place for the rest of the jambs ;)