This camcorder provided the bare minimum for the price, nothing less. While the image is not catastrophic, whatever low light rendering is relatively poor, but the interface is poorly thought notament navigating the menu to the "few" settings is quite cumbersome (a button Round surrounded on four keys "up, down, left, right" was widely simpler). If the zoom is powerful, mini size of this camcorder is ideal for small hands of my son 12 years. In short for the price it should not be too much to ask, but it can meet the filmmakers herbs without problems. Still thank you Amazon is always fast and reliable.