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(More customer reviews)I bought this camera after owning the Sony HDR-HC3, and the Canon HV10, and when I first saw the camera I was in love. Now that I've had the camcorder for over 1 month now, here's an honest review of the camcorder from a keeper's perspective:
Pros:
1. Excellent outdoor image, clarity and picture. The lines are crisp, everything green just jumps out at you, it does seem like you're shooting in HD and it shows when filming out in the sun with light.
2. Price. For a HD camcorder w/ an internal harddrive at ~1100, it's a no brainer. It provides a lot of the goods at the lower end of the price range.
3. New color schema for HDMI 1.3 (the xxYcc or whatever). This is actually good and bad, because it'll bring out the colors if you have a monitor to show them, but Sony advises that you don't shoot in this mode if you don't as it may lead to inaccurate color representation if you don't own a TV that supports this.
4. Small size. The camcorder just feels right, and fits and looks nice.
5. AVCHD now has NLE's that can edit the format, I use Sony Vegas 7.0e and it works excellent, I was an adobe premiere guy before, but now I LOVE Sony Vegas, it's an awesome program.
6. Transfers film as data and so you don't have to wait there until the PC captures the video 1:1 timewise.Cons:
1. Indoor shooting is almost below SD quality. The indoor shooting gets VERY grainy, and I have to say I'm really disappointed. I got the AIS Flash shoe for the camcorder for this reason, and still, the picture is better, but still grainy. I want to say it's almost as if you have a hybrid camcorder, SD indoors, HD outdoors. My Canon HV10 was superior in quality indoors, probably the same clarity outdoors, but Sony definitely had better colors.
2. No USB or HDMI (normal size) on the body of the camcorder. I do agree with other people with this annoyance. I actually don't mind that using the docking station, and I do at home, but on a couple of occasions my friends want to transfer video over to their computer after a night out and I can't since there's no USB on the camcorder.
3. Sometimes takes awhile before the picture can come into focus. Again, I noticed this a lot when indoors, the pictures just doesn't focus for about 10secs, very annoying.
As you can see, I actually have more pros then cons, but the cons actually are stronger deterrents; than the pros are stronger for desire. I'm okay with my purchase, and know that I will probably get a lot of good video quality over the years with this camcorder, but just feel there has to be something better out there. If this had the quality indoors as it does out, this would totally be a 5/5 no matter what else.
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Experience amazing picture quality and convenience. The HDR-SR7 lets you record remarkably clear and detailed high definition video onto its convenient 60GB internal hard drive. The professional grade Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* lens ensures photo-realistic image quality, with a 10x optical/20x digital zoom that easily brings the action extra close, while Super SteadyShot optical image stabilization reduces blur from camcorder shake. Take command and get creative with manual control for focus, exposure, shutter speed and white balance. View your shooting on the 2.7 wide Clear Photo LCD Plus display, featuring touch panel SwivelScreen technology, so you can view from any shooting angle. And capture more than movies using the dual record function to snap still images even while shooting video.
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