 Hello everyone, this is Amit Don, on this channel you'll find financial travel and other videos just like the one you're watching right now. If you like what you see, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing. Today I'll do a brief review of Sony CX455 Handicamp and also I'll have some test clips at the end of this review. Sony CX455 Handicamp is a portable handicamp and first I'll talk about the positives and then I'll talk about the negatives of this handicamp. So the first thing, picture quality. The picture quality or video quality is excellent both indoor and outdoor in low light and daylight. So I had no problem or I have no complaint in that section, the amazing picture quality and you'll see that in the test clips I'm attaching. Image stabilization. It has a very good image stabilization with intelligent active mode and when I was doing the video and walking at the same time, still I didn't feel a significant amount of shaking or blurriness. So in terms of image stabilization, there is no complaint. Sound quality. This portable handicamp has surround sound quality which is very good quality sound capturing for a tiny device like this. So I have no complaint in that section. The Sony CX455 Handicamp has 30x optical zoom and 40x digital zoom and if you see some of the objects I tried to zoom in, then you'll be amazed with how close you can see the objects. So this is a very good feature to let you record images or objects that are in far distance but still you can have a very clear and crisp shot with the zoom function. So that's a very good feature and I have no complaint about that. Still picture. The still picture capability is at 9.2 megapixel, however in order to take 9.2 megapixel pictures the camera has to be on recording mode. That means that you have to record and take pictures at the same time and then it will be able to capture 9.2 megapixel still pictures. If you do not do that, if you just want to take still pictures, then it doesn't have actually a good picture megapixel. So this is not really for to take still pictures. So overall in terms of all the positives for a camera which is not priced that high-end camera, for example this cost below $500. So it's somewhere between $400 to $500, Canadian dollars, it's a very good camera and with all these positives I have no complaints about that and now I'll talk about the negatives and what I do not like about this camera. Just another feature I would like to mention that the LCD screen is a touch screen which is a very good thing to have and it has the capability to zoom in and zoom out pinching on the LCD screen which is just like using your smartphone. So if you are used to taking pictures with your smartphone or doing video with your smartphones, you like that feature where you can zoom in or zoom out or track a subject just touching on the LCD screen. So that's another feature I like. Okay now let's talk about the negatives or the things I do not like about this camera. So the first thing I do not like on LCD screen it does not show the recording time. For example if you are recording with your smartphone or most cameras you'll be able to see for how long the camera is recording for example 1 minute, 2 minutes, 10 minutes but this camera does not have that feature. So you're kind of in the dark and you'll not be able to see how long you've been recording for or how much time has passed since you started recording. So that's a feature I do not like. The second feature I do not like is the video file format or recording format. So it mainly records in two formats XAVCS and AVCHD. Now if you choose XAVCX then it has the capability to record in MPEG4 at the same time however the MPEG4 recording will be at 720 not 1080p HD and that takes a lot of space. I choose to record in AVCHD because it gives me more space and I do not need the dual recording because AVCHD is the one I can use. However I would love to have the feature where it has a recording mode only at MPEG4 so I do not have to record in AVCHD or XAVCS format. So if you want your recording format just to be in MPEG4 this camera doesn't have that capability so you have to do that by recording it in XAVCS format however then it takes so much space that you don't want to do that and the other issues that you have to convert from XAVCS or AVCHD format to MPEG4 format if you want to get MPEG4 format out of this camera so that's a negative thing about this camera I do not like. The other thing I can complain about but it's not a big deal is that battery. The battery actually doesn't go inside the camera you just clip it to the camera and it kind of sticks out on the camera and it gives me the feeling that the battery is going to fall from the camera although I know that that's not going to happen but I wish it would have the feature where you insert the battery and there's a battery cover so it doesn't give you the feeling that the camera and the battery is falling out of the camera but it's not a big deal. So these are the main positives and negatives I can think of this camera overall I'm happy with my purchase the picture quality and the video quality is amazing and most and the image stabilization is really good and it can do excellent video quality in both dark and in daylight so that's an important feature to have now I'll touch some test clips which I took around my condo and it's in downtown Toronto and you'll be able to see some of the clips and image still pictures and you'll be able to judge by yourself how is the video quality and the video I took there done in AVCHD format XAVCS format would record slightly better quality picture but I chose not to have that format because there's so much space so AVCHD is the format I recorded all these clips and it's fine for me so enjoy the clips and that's all for today and if you like what you see please hit the subscribe button and give it a thumbs up that's all for today thank you