I purchased this cam 10 months ago and it was my first worst experience with Sony brand. I never faced this kind of worst experience with any sony product, I really like sony but this product is just a whole junk. The picture or movie quality is so distorted, the whole thing becomes worst for this model. It even doesn’t compete the quality of other lowest price camera. The distortion is not recognized in camera LCD view itself until you doesn’t view the taken pictures or video in your computer.
In camera it looks like you have taken a very nice snap but when you view it in your computer you realize how much worst is that. Take the snaps of corner of a room wall and watch it out in your PC, you can easily see the distortion. In video just keep the eyes on wall side, if there is a water pipe on your wall, it would be better to view that distortion and you realize the distortion very easily. If you take the snaps of group people like in a function of your home, all the side peoples get stretched and you can view this in your computer very easily. Also the battery life is not good in this model.
Note: you don’t visualize any distortion in your camera LCD(small in size) until you view it in your PC Screen.