Archive for the 'Sony' Category
Samsung SC-D372 Review
Saturday, November 24th, 2007It’s easy to assume that all budget camcorders look alike. They’re all small, inexpensive miniDV devices with 25x to 35x zoom lenses, sub-megapixel sensors, and very few bells and whistles. Because of this, you might be tempted to assume that they’re all the same. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case. Under every cookie-cutter camcorder are countless [...]
Sony NSC-GC1 Review
Saturday, November 24th, 2007Every company wants to get a taste of YouTube’s popularity, and Sony’s no exception. In a jarring change from the company’s Cyber-shot and Handycam lines of digital cameras and camcorders, Sony released the NSC-GC1, a pocket camera/camcorder designed specifically for YouTube and its myriad Web video analogs. At just $200, the GC1 aims squarely at [...]
Sony Handycam HDR-CX7 Review
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Join me, if you will, along the slow march toward the obsolescence of tape in video. We’ve definitely got a long road ahead of us, but it’s fun to notice how much camcorders have changed already. On the one hand, tapeless camcorders such as Sony’s Handycam HDR-CX7 give product designers the freedom to make smaller, [...]
Sony Handycam HDR-SR7 Camcorder Review
Saturday, August 11th, 2007Sharing a perch at the top of Sony’s HD prosumer camcorder line, the Handycam HDR-SR7 manages to combine a raft of cutting-edge capabilities without forgetting that its primary function is capturing high-quality HD video. This facility still doesn’t come cheap or easy, but if you’ve got the bucks and the patience, the SR7 delivers the [...]
Sony Handycam DCR-SR300 Camcorder Review
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Viewfinders have become an endangered species in the camcorder world. More and more, as is the case with Sony’s Handycam DCR-SR300 hard-drive-based camcorder, we’re seeing manufacturers remove viewfinders from models geared toward the mass market. Perhaps it’s a nod to the still-imaging world–where users frequently shy away from viewfinders when framing their shots–or perhaps it’s [...]
