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 slot)