Uploaded December 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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The HDR-CX220 has excellent HD 1080P video quality in good lighting and if you're lucky you can find it at a bargain price. But its video gets very grainy in low light, and the cost-cutting is very obvious -- you don't even get an AC adapter!

Addendum: Although audible in quiet scenes, the autofocus motor noise on mine is not nearly as bad as in this review video: youtube.com/watch?v=Xx1gQg-lZ5g
So either Sony made a mid-production change to reduce the noise, or some are simply louder than others due to manufacturing variance.