Our Overall Score:
9.4/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Digital Camcorders category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £1249
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Sony or alternative products in the Digital Camcorders category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder
SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder scores 9.7/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Digital Camcorders. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Digital Camcorders, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Digital Camcorders? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder scores 8.6/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Digital Camcorders category was £1249.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £49.00 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Digital Camcorders category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Digital Camcorders category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Digital Camcorders category. This was £298.28 from the 37 products we found in that category. So SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder actually comes in above average at £1249.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £1249.00 and the least expensive, which was £49.00. In total we found that of the 37, 0 were more expensive and 36 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder.
Prices of products from Sony
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Sony. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Sony, which was £453.54 of the 318 products we found. So SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Sony was £6.99 with the most expensive coming in at £9999.00.
Prices of products from Sony and in the Digital Camcorders category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Sony that sit specifically within the Digital Camcorders category.
For this we found that the average price was £582.50, making SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder at £1249 actually above average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £1249.00 with the lowest priced item being £173.00. In total there were 0 items that were more expensive and 3 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder
SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder scores 9.9/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder is.
Overall score
SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder scores 9.4/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Sony so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SONY FDR-AX100EB 4K Ultra HD Camcorder
- Brand: Sony
- Model Number: FDRAX100EB
- 4K Ultra HD video (25 fps)Optical zoom: 12 x3.5″ LCD touchscreenBuilt-in WiFi / NFCImage stabilisation
- EAN: 5013493246171
- Description: Top features: – Shoot in 4K for amazing visuals- CMOS sensor gets the best out of your recordings- ZEISS lens zooms in on all the details – Get better images with a BIONZ X processor – Filters and effects to fine tune your photos Shoot in 4K Recording amazing videos with the Sony FDR-AX100 4K Ultra HD Camcorder. This excellent camcorder records in four times the quality of Full HD, giving you incredibly detailed and lifelike recordings. Bring out your inner filmmaker and shoot whatever you want. Cheer on the local team and film sporting events, a high framerate means even fast moving objects can be recorded smoothly. You can record in a range of formats too.ZEISS lensYou can count on the FDRAX100 when you’re trying to capture that jaw-dropping landscape shot. Its ZEISS lens has a 12x optical zoom and a 24x Clear Image Zoom, so you can focus in on smaller details and wide ranging pictures. Images come out sharp and defined, just like they look in real life.There’s a manual dial on the side of the body that lets you make adjustments quickly.CMOS sensorThe FDR-AX100’s advanced CMOS sensor with background defocusing reduces noise and improves clarity, so even if you’re shooting in a dark location you’ll get a clear video of your main subject. And whether you’re shooting a clip or snapping a pic, TRILUMINOS Colour shows you everything in rich, bold shades. From a deep red sunset to a shimmering blue lake, the world around you will look bright and beautiful in your imagery.Get better images The advanced BIONZ X image processing engine gives you more faithful image reproduction, naturally vivid and lifelike images, and higher resolution capabilities. The FDR-AX100 also has some exciting new including By Pixel Super Resolution, Motion Shot Video, Optical SteadyShot and Dual Video Recording. Filters and effects The FDR-AX100 helps to bring out your creative side thanks to 7 different Picture Effects including Toy Camera, Soft high key, Pop Color, Posterization, Retro Photo, Partial Color, and High contrast monochrome. These all give you more scope to add your own artistic touch to your photos.You can also play all your recordings on your home TV thanks to the FDR-AX100’s HDMI connector. So gather your friends round and show off your directorial debut.
- Product ID: 24053959129
