Performance
Although, the image stabilization of the camcorder is good, you will find portions in the videos losing details (or appearing to have more grain). But this is more to do with the way it is handled than the way it shoots. The DC230 takes very little time to focus, and at the same time you can also choose manual focus. What I missed here was the touch-screen feature, since it allows you to simply tap the screen and focus on any portion of the screen. With the DC230 you will need to use the thumbstick.
Optimal lighting performance, that is to say during the day, is nice. The camera doesn't over expose the shots. The color production on the DC230 is decent, although it tends to over saturate colors. I’m not surprised, since everyone likes bright and vivid videos. The camcorder, however, doesn’t have infrared night vision for shooting in the night. It does have a night mode, but it only over exposes the sensors. The minimum focusing distance for the DC230 is 10mm.
Shooting with different shooting mode is quite enjoyable though. The camcorder offers the usual assortment of modes like sepia, Black and white, negative etc. You can add effects to your clips by selecting any of the modes while shooting itself. A suggestion here for people who are actually keen on getting more out of the experience — get an editing software like Adobe Premiere Elements. It's an easy-to-use editing tool that will allow you to overlay music, cut and merge different scenes etc.
Conclusion
The camera is a decent camcorder, and mainly for people who are not really looking for artsy purposes. As a point and shoot (all auto modes) you will find that the camcorder isn’t that bad after all. But for the same price, you will get a lot of other counterparts with many more features, like the touch-screen feature for one. The color composition is decent, as mentioned before, but the camcorder lacks night vision. For a street price of Rs. 31,000, it seems a bit steep.
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