Really faced with the problem of taking a long training course on a camera is not very convenient, comfortable, reliable. In my case, the Canon 5D MIII it just overheated due to the brake card. That's why I turned to the Sony FDR AX-700 camcorder. Canon wanted to, in principle, but the price there is not very affordable. Although the camera is just gorgeous.
So the first advantage of the Sony FDR AX700 is the price!
The camera matrix of a professional size of 1 inch gives excellent image quality, good detail, beautiful tone and is further edited well.
The operating range is ISO 200-1600, farther up to 4000 is noisy, but it's great for a camcorder.
Like the appearance, the functionality of the buttons, but a very unusual menu and poor PlayMemories functionality.
The design problem was the cover on the shoe and the viewfinder extension.
Not bad, the presence of Picture ProFiles, but it is better not to abuse it because the ISO drops to 1600 and even ND Filter can harm in this case, add noise.
Stabilization did not satisfy me, but on batteries it is what we need. 2 on put me quite enough. And for lessons you can plug into the network.