There aren’t a lot of ways you can do to improve the deisgn of a camcorder, but the the DC40 looks pretty good. It has a 3-inch circular DVD disc, and a rectangular LCD screen but the controls are not so easy to use.

It has a 10X zoom lens, it provides a wide f/1.8-to-f/3.0 aperture and can accept 37mm add-on lenses and it can make a video shot in 16:9 aspect ratio runs just less 3 megapixels, while 4:3 uses about 3.5 megapixels and can make 20 minutes of the highest-quality video and it also offers support for 3-inch DVD-R and DVD-RW, which are included in the box.

The performance is ok and it also is smooth; the microphone is in the front of the camcorder, below the lens and that’s a good improvement, as unwanted sounds don’t make their way in the video.

Another pleasant surprise is the low light video quality which looks pretty realistic and the device also offers strong lighting when needed. Photos have good white balance, exposure, and saturation but it doesn’t have image stabilization, and if there is too much light, their quality will probably not be so good.