It does better on exposure and white balance, but you have to hit the Backlight button to compensate for backlit subjects; these days, most cameras and camcorders are intelligent enough to recognize and adjust for it automatically...Tell us what you like about this product...Tell us what you don't like about this product...

The DCR-DVD205 and DCR-DVD305 had virtually the same color palette...It did seem to lay a little heavy on the reds, but overall, the crispness of the image could not be topped...Overall, the Sony DCR-DVD305 would be a suitable, perhaps even complimentary camcorder for the infrequent shooter (as most camcorder owners are...

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I spent countless hours researching camcorders online and in the stores before I purchased this and flipped back and forth between Hard Drive (bad), MiniDV and DVD models before I finally settled on DVD...easy to use, great picture with good sound , the easiest part of this dvd camcoder is it takes 4 mins to finalize the mini dvd and lessthan 10 mins to copy over to other DVDs...I had read recommendations...

I am particular to Sony products as they have been very good to me over the years...Lack of a user friendly interface in camera screen and lack of a good zoom...The PC tools provided for accessing pictures and video are not good and do not even tell you whether they have connected to the camera...

Being able to record stills to it is good, but most people aren't going to want stills from a 1 Megapixel ccd...OVERALL this camera is my current prized possesion...Other than that, this camera is a great value, and I recommend it wholeheartedly......