Sony LCS-SRA Soft Carry Case For Camcorder
Sony LCS-SRA Soft Carry Case For Camcorder
Customer Review: Very good small carry case for your sony camcorder
It is well built, and perfect for your small sony camcorder. For me it fits my SR7 perfect.
But there is a tiny problem with this case with SR7: the strap on the camera is not in the correct position, a bit higher instead…
Still, this case is very nice and you should not miss it, because you really don’t want a big bag to carry a small camera every day.
-
Used Price: ?750.80
Continue …
The Panasonic HDR-SD9 comes complete with some of the best technologies available on today?s market, including a Tri-CCD sensor and a Full HD recording mode for more clarity, finer details and better colour reproduction. Thanks to its three-lens sensor, colours are processed separately for exceptional results, while a progressive resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and an O.I.S. image stabiliser, activated over 4,000 times per second, corrects the effects of blur for steady, still images. A Leica lens captures subtle nuances and colour tones, ensuring videos are as true to life as possible, and Dolby Digital surround 5.1/2-channel technology allows you to record outstanding sound. The HDR-SD9 is also equipped with face detection technology, along with automatic exposure and focus control for perfect pictures. It’’s amazingly comfortable to handle and use, thanks to its intuitive shooting guide, help tools and connections system, made up of an HDMI port, a USB 2.0 port and a host of video outputs. With bags of powerful, technologically-advanced features inside its casing, the SD9 definitely won?t disappoint!
Amazon Price: ?427.24
Used Price: ?450.50
Customer Review: Apple users beware.
I take it as read that this will produce high quality video. As an apple user I want it to work in iMovie 08 by using an SD card reader. I like working like this. I got the Apple store in Southampton and the John Lewis store to try to import some footage shot on a new SD9 using a card reader. It did not work. Much head scratching! There is a lot of talk about this issue on DV forums and Apple forums. Some say import problems to iMovie have been resolved. Until I know for sure that I can use an SD card reader with the SD9 I will not be buying. Apple users like me - be warned.
Customer Review: HDCSD9 Vs Canon
I read many reviews and spent days wondering what to buy finally I went to a high street store and asked them to charge up the panasonic sd9 and the canon hf10. I took footage inside and out. At this moment I was somewhat obsessive about the Canon ie its quality and all the rave reviews. Imagine my surprise when I got home and looked at the footage via my ps3. The panasonic footage was much more stable and much more true to life vivid colours. This might be that the Canon was incorrectly set but both were on auto so to me thats an equal footing. I took the plunge as to my surprise Amazon were now offering the unit at 400 pounds with an 8gb panasonic sdhc card so in effect the real price of the camera was at 360. Now for this price you cannot get a high definition camcorder in this league. Having taken much footage now, the path to avchd recording has not been so bad. I have an Sony AR61 that has a card reader and hd writer installed fine on Vista premium. The software is not perfect but within a small time I was able to edit avchd footage on a dual core laptop. I use via ps3 as this can handle the avchd format directly and i see no point in converting a hidef avchd footage into an mpeg 2 for a dvd. The resultant footage is excellent with the panasonic and I would urge you not to dismiss this unit over the Canon. If you want simplicity of use with excellent results then this is the perfect machine. OK yes the Canon is a remarkable piece of equipment but look at its price and ok quality of image can be subjective hence my advice to try. I see it this way I now have full HD recording at an amazing Amazon price. I can now wait for a year at which point the HF10 would have halved in price and then get that too, effectively owning the Panasonic and Canon at the same price as the canon is now. The Panasonic is a well made machine and I suspect the reviews are all leaning to the Canon from video experts. If like me you have the normal two kids and a wife that is not so technical then the forego all the fancy buttons and get the Panasonic. The images are truely stunning and yes in low light the images get grainy as all cameras do in low light conditions but it has to be really dark to the point where you wouldnt take footage anyway. So do it. The money you save will buy you the Sony PS3 that you can use as a hub to show your footage from a standard usb stick. This way your Full HDTV can be used to its full potential. You might ask why not 5 stars well this was not because of price or quality but because they give no mini hdmi to hdmi lead cable or a case for the device or even an sdhc card as standard. If like me you already have the TV hdmi slots taken up in the cable run then go via the ps3 however if you want to connect the camera to the tv then get a mini hdmi to hdmi converter and plug it into the end of an existing hdmi cable as these are only 6 pounds.
Continue …
Customer Review: Outstanding performance (but with a few reservations)
I’ve had this camera for a couple of months now and still I have yet to learn all the tricks it has in its locker. But I have done the most basic of all duties and I think I can pass on at least some judgement. Please note that I do not as yet have a HD television. I upgraded from what was already a pretty decent top-of-the-range Canon video camera, albeit some years old now. The DX1 is clearly better and the most obvious reason for this is the format change from DV tape to DVD or SD. I have used at least a dozen DVD-R discs and have had no problems at all, but one of the irritations has been the slow speed of the camera from being switched off to being ready to film. Sometimes you want to move fast, and if you’re in a real hurry, the DX1 could have you cursing out loud. Same applies, oddly enough, when you want to switch off; as there is no removable lens cap (it’s an electronic shutter instead) you have to wait for it to close after you have switched the camera off. This can take nearly half a minute, and again this is a nuisance if you are in a hurry. I don’t like returning the camera to its carrying bag unless or until the Zeiss lens is protected, so it can be an inconvenience to have to wait. On the positive side the battery is, in my opinion, quite remarkable in terms of longevity. I can’t quote an actual time-span that it can be used for on a single charge but it really is quite astonishingly good in this respect. It is though a nuisance to have to remove the battery in order to ‘finish’ a DVD disc, as this operation cannot be done using the battery. Overall the camera is easy and relatively light (given its high spec) and one of my favourite aspects is the ability to just take a DVD out of the camera and put it straight into a domestic DVD player at home, which was one of the main reasons I opted for this model. It’s also convenient for making a recording and simply giving the completed disc to somebody else without having to go through the time-consuming process of copying it onto another format later. The Carl Zeiss lens (made in Germany) is first class, always the first priority for me in choosing any kind of camera, and why I chose the Panasonic brand in the first place.
Continue …
