Small, cheap and very good-looking. Can the SDR-S15 deliver?

Exceedingly cute / Long zoom

Dodgy video quality / Strange control placement

It's spectacularly small, and weighs just 165g before you pop in the battery, yet still crams in a reasonable selection of controls and a 2.7in widescreen LCD

The HF10 is the best AVCHD camcorder yet

The HF10 has a unique feature, too. It's the first HD camcorder to come with a copious quantity of Flash memory built in – 16GB to be exact. This is enough for two hours of footage even at the top quality mode, and there's a SDHC slot available, too, ...

The smallest full HD camcorder yet and isn't much larger than a fat smartphone.

Size, surround sound support, speed

Memory stick format, not great indoors

Despite its dinky proportions, the TG3 records video at 1920 x 1080, although only in its top FH quality mode, and online interlaced. It offers a healthy 16Mbits/sec data rate and uses AVCHD compression. It can also shoot standard definition video, ...

Able to cram in loads of recording time

Since this camcorder records video at the regular TV resolution of 720 x 576, and uses MPEG-2 compression at up to 8.5Mbits/sec, you can fit a whopping 7 hours of footage on the hard disk. Drop to the lowest setting, and there's room for 37 hours, ...