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Very good Sony camera - really stands out from the rest
Before purchasing Sony DCR-SR200 I have looked at other hard drive cameras - few JVC ones, cheaper Sony and latest Canon. Sony and JVC are very ergonomic, they fit more or less perfectly in your palm, whereas Canon was awkward and controls were inconvenient to use. From all those cameras only DCR-SR200 (and higher model DCR-SR300) has very stable zoom. For the rest of the group zoom was sluggish and shaky when you zoom at max. Camera has 4 MP resolution for still images but pictures taken with D...
[Sony Handycam 40GB Hard Drive Digital Camcorder (DCRSR200) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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05/21/2007
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Brilliant Camcorder
Bought this camcorder last month after debating this and the competing Panasonic model (SDR series). I should say that the overall image and movie quality out of this camcorder is rich and vivid.The controls are easy and self-intuitive, placed right where you'd expect it to be, and the on-screen controls I thought are pretty neat considering I have mid-sized fingers. Like several other reviews mention, the battery does tend to protrude out a little but I dont mind it given the overall performanc...
[Sony Handycam 40GB Hard Drive Digital Camcorder (DCRSR200) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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07/12/2007
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The only down side is it is not High Def
I upgraded from a Canon MiniDV camera to this Sony Hard drive and will never again look anywhere but to Sony for all of my electronic needs. This camera is easy to use. My one concern was fat fingers on the touch screen but the menus have the buttons spaced enough that it has not been an issue. The video quality is fantastic except a little grainy in very low light situations. But in contrast with the Canon's low light capabilities, there IS no comparison. The video blows it out of the wate...
[Sony Handycam 40GB Hard Drive Digital Camcorder (DCRSR200) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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DCR-SR200
This is my first HDD camcorder. I owned several MiniDV camcorders in the past. I have owned the camera for 2 weeks, so this review should be considered as initial impression.
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- Picture quality is very good in good daylight. I had some shots at night in well lit family room, and the video is not as sharp as day time shots, but still very good.
- The Super Nightshot feature is fun to have to take kids video while they are sleeping. As expected, the video is very grainy.
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[Sony Handycam 40GB Hard Drive Digital Camcorder (DCRSR200) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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04/02/2007
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Movie quality DVD for home video, finally!!
I have been involved with MPEG2 encoding since 1999. I know what are the qualities of a good MPEG2 encoder. I can point very minute artifacts that results from MPEG2 encoder. Being said that, here is my verdict on video quality.
* No visible quantization artifacts (Blocky video)
* No visible edge blurring or edge artifacts
* Very little video noise in low light situation (If you are picky like me!!)
* Little visible interlacing (Window blind effect) for fast moving scenes.
[Sony Handycam 40GB Hard Drive Digital Camcorder (DCRSR200) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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Great Camcorder.. I have been waiting for this ...
Strengths: Excellent Video & Audio Quality. Great Still Pictures. Cool Touchscreen LCD. Night shot video is amazing. In Built Flash is very powerful.
Weaknesses: Battery protruded outside kinda gives a odd look. User Manual supplied is not very informative... u got to explore all the menus urself. u need docking stn to connect to PC.
Summary: Hey , no more additional softwares to convert all other video formats, Directly recorded as Mpeg format, connect to PC and rip your D...
[Sony Handycam 40GB Hard Drive Digital Camcorder (DCRSR200) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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04/03/2007
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Great video, 5.1 surround is neat...but
Everybody else has said all the good things about this camera, I need to document what I found to be negative issues (for me anyway). My first outing with this cam was at an air show. There was 20 MPH winds and bright sunshine. I need to stress that the microphones for the 5.1 surround are very sensitive to wind noise. I have 1.5 hours of really cool video, but when I play it back through my home theater, the sub woofer rumbles from the constant wind noise, making the playback annoying to li...
[Sony Handycam 40GB Hard Drive Digital Camcorder (DCRSR200) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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05/24/2007
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Hot Dog! A real movie machine!
I've only had it for a week, but I'm already up to speed on most of the features. LUV the touch screen navigation and intuitive menus. Online manual is better than print version.
Now I'm a movie director in one easy lesson and do my own editing on the PC.
Take three still photos while recording video!
By an extra battery.
[Sony Handycam 40GB Hard Drive Digital Camcorder (DCRSR200) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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This Camcorder is not so great because...
The sirens song of a HD based Camcorder was too much to resist. Based upon hours of research I too finally settled on the DCR-SR200. Not quite as high resolution photos as the SR300 but sported longer battery life and CLEARLY a step above the previous models and other vendors. How could I go wrong - look at all these 4 and 5 star reviews. I can't speak for their experiences but I'm going to tell you mine. So pull up a chair and get comfortable b/c the ride is going to get bumpy...
[Sony Handycam 40GB Hard Drive Digital Camcorder (DCRSR200) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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10/20/2007
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Nice, but not for the family user... yet
Bought this camera to take videos of my new baby. Figured going with a hard drive camcorder was the way to go. Unfortunatley it records in MPEG2 format which most commecially available desktop video maker programs either dont support yet or dont import easily - in other words, this is not a "plug and play" camera. You will need to buy more advanced video editing software to make it easy to download movies and edit.
Also - it doesnt work with Macs or Imovie. This was a bummer.
[Sony Handycam 40GB Hard Drive Digital Camcorder (DCRSR200) review can be read at Amazon.com]
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06/08/2007
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