I’d been waiting for the right combination of features to make the plunge to a high definition camcorder for personal use. I’ve been using the 3 CCD Sony HDR-FX1 
for professional use, but it is too large to carry around for personal use.
Enter the HDR-SR series. I won’t cover the specs – cause it’s been done…but this verson is a 120 Gig internal hard drive. This new camera had everything I was intrested in except, a 20x optical zoom and HDV versus AVCHD. The 20x just isn’t happening. I believe due to the sensor size and format, it’s just too expensive to produce this – for now. Nevertheless, the 12x smaller Carl Zeiss lense is very good.
Waiting for HDV was ignorance on my part. I’m stunned how good AVCHD format Read the rest of this entry »
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