Sony HDR-SR5,HDR-SR7,HDR-CX7 Good

[spheredome]

Being new to digital camcorder, I went to Bishan Sony Gallery recently to test the new HDR-SR5/7series and I must say it sure can take very sharp movies and the still picture has reached acceptable quality.
Dazzled by the various models? besides the specs, the key difference between models are the missing viewfinder and the 6MP models have optical stabilizer. Very tempting ;p

 

[anarkia]

Being new to digital camcorder, I went to Bishan Sony Gallery recently to test the new HDR-SR5/7series and I must say it sure can take very sharp movies and the still picture has reached acceptable quality.
Dazzled by the various models? besides the specs, the key difference between models are the missing viewfinder and the 6MP models have optical stabilizer. Very tempting ;p

yes i agree the sr7 have sharp picture quality...tempted too.
but to small in size. i got big palm:bsmilie:

 

[baggiolee]

i've the sr7e (60gb), the movie quality is very smooth and clear in bright lighting environment while Low/mid light causes lots of noise, i even experience 'slow motion' once. As for the picture quality, it's way below avg for me. 60gb allows 8hrs of highest quality (15mbps) of video....while the cx7 8gb ms($199) allows around 1hr. So go for sr7/8e bah.. but if u wan better video quality but dun mind the encoding part...HDV is still the best. check out sony HC7 and canon HV20 as recommended by many. Join us for videography when u got urs!

 

[kungfumaster]

I have read somewhere that HV20 is selling at only S$11xx through Pricejapan.com.

I checked it up and it is the Japan version, meaning buttons are in Japanese and it is in NTSC format. Nice thing is LCD menu can be switch to English.

Anyone can give any advice on the implication of NTSC format (versus PAL)? or it doesnt matter at all once the files are converted on a computer?

Regards,
Garrick.

 

[spheredome]

i've the sr7e (60gb), the movie quality is very smooth and clear in bright lighting environment while Low/mid light causes lots of noise, i even experience 'slow motion' once. As for the picture quality, it's way below avg for me. 60gb allows 8hrs of highest quality (15mbps) of video....while the cx7 8gb ms($199) allows around 1hr. So go for sr7/8e bah.. but if u wan better video quality but dun mind the encoding part...HDV is still the best. check out sony HC7 and canon HV20 as recommended by many. Join us for videography when u got urs!

Agreed. got to check the HV series at the Canon Showroom as well, in fact I saw the HV10 posted quality was good.
These are pricey stuff and by the time you add this and adds that.... not much leeway for regrets. :sweat: