Strengths: small, Light-weight, Night shot, Good battery life, Good picture quality. — Summary: small-fits in palm well. — Light-weight - can hold for longer time. — Sony brand- reliability. — Night shot-can capture picture in complete darkness. — Good battery life. Good picture quality. — For basic functions, DCR-HC28 is cheaper than this camcorder with almost all the features. Even though this is a good camcorder, I would rather go for DCR-HC28 unless you are looking for specific features which are in this camcorder and not in HC28 (ex- memory card… read full review »