Sony Handycam HDR-TG3 Expert Reviews

We had the good fortune to receive a Sony HDR-TG3E (aka, HDR-TG1 for North America) review unit on the day we departed for a bit of tropical relaxation. As such, we return with a real world look at how the Titanium-shelled TG3E performed in the sun,...

The Sony TG3E camcorder is perfect for people who are sick of making compromises -- either in quality in favour of size, or size in favour of quality. Though it isn't exactly mini at 240g, it's portable and, significantly, yields amazing HD foot...

Size and portability; video quality; stills quality

Confusing controls; AVCHD format; no mic socket

Sony's forte is high-quality, cutting-edge technology delivered in highly desirable, stylish consumer products. That describes the TG3E perfectly. Serious videographers may scoff at some of its omissions and weaknesses, but for non-experts happy to p...

Sony's new camcorder takes portability about as far as it can go while still shooting high definition. It's tiny - about the same size as a compact stills camera - so you can slip it in your pocket rather than having to decide whether to cart your bag alo...

Say hello to my little friend. A truly tiny camcorder with few compromises.

At around the same size as a point-and-shoot digital camera, and under 300g, the HDR-TG3 is incredibly portable. You can drop it into a pocket comfortably, which isn't something you can say for many other HD camcorders. Our current A List choice, the Cano...

Wonderfully portable, but this comes at the expense of clarity.

Sony's HDR-TG3 makes an impressive entrance into the growing pocketable camcorder market.

The Sony HDR-TG3 is another bold step from Sony, the company which broke HD into the UK market and dominated for the first year or so. The poor low light performance will be a worry if you want to shoot family events in darkened rooms. But for a sub-300g

Sony's HDR-TG3 is by far the easiest and most stylish way to make your own High Definition movies. As the world's smallest Full-HD camcorder, the HDR-TG3 lets users capture any situation in any place at any time. Its elegant, ultra-compact, lightweight de...

Titanium: great for making spaceships less essential for consumer electronics, until now.

A stonkingly good looking camcorder, but needs some stablilisers.

Sony has billed it as the world's smallest, slimmest high definition camcorder. It promises much - but is it really "the perfect partner for nights out or weekends away"? Well, it depends on what you get up to!

There's no doubt about it - the HDR-TG3 is a fabulous little high definition camcorder that will please all but the most finicky user. Its recorded pictures and sounds are very impressive indeed when shooting in all but the murkiest conditions (as we alwa...

Sony is selling the HDR-TG3 as "the world's smallest and lightest high definition camcorder", and this dinky model certainly lives up to that claim. We take a closer look at this superb new camcorder.

Small and lightweight, lightening fast automatic focus, instant on recording, 4GB Memory Stick DUO included, stylish, Component and HDMI-output

Lacks manual controls, no DV-in so you can't use it to record, HD clips can only be captured on a Intel Mac

We were truly and genuinely impressed by Sony's HDR-TG3 camcorder. Small upright camcorders all too often sacrifice video quality and provide gimmicky features, but the HDR-TG3 is a triumph of automated functionality and good quality in a small form facto...

The stylish, petite Sony HDR-TG3 is an HD camcorder that ships with a generous 4GB memory card, enough for about half an hour of footage recorded at full high-definition quality.

We were truly and genuinely impressed by Sony's HDR-TG3 camcorder. Small upright camcorders all too often sacrifice video quality and provide gimmicky features, but the Sony HDR-TG3 is a triumph of automated functionality and good quality in a small form