Sony Handycam HDR-HC7

Posted on July 25, 2010, 2:11 pm

You’ve heard better video how to look in the xvYCC color space and are set to drop $ 33,000 on the Sony Bravia KDL-70XBR3 LCD TV 70 inches when it usually May But what will you play on? The most likely home movies recorded with the Sony Handycam HDR-HC7 or its little brother, the HDR-HC5, camcorders up to support xvYCC. However, even if you’re not quite ready to plunk that much cash for a TV, the more modest price HC7 will still deliver a great experience of home movie. In fact, it is impossible to know how the new color space, color mark xv “by Sony, will actually cost, though the HC7 can record it, no device can display the video properly yet. Without this distinction, HC7 simply continues the tradition of the excellent series of Sony consumer HDV camcorders. Sony incorporating half. 9-3 inch-megapixel ClearVid CMOS sensor, the HC7 outspecs its 2-megapixel predecessors and the HC5 to raise the premium Sony Consumer HDV camcorder a single chip. He is not alone up there. With the exception of the type of recording media and design problems that result, the HC7 is essentially a double DVD HDR-UX7 . And I would not be surprised if the eventual follow-up to the HDR-SR1 HDD made triples (sony dav). The sensor and a few random features differentiate the HC7 Sony HDR HC5. They share the same Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T * 10x zoom, although the difference in the results of a probe in sizes small relatively insignificant disparity in focal lengths. Contrary to the HC5, a dial on the HC7 lets you assign a parameter adjustment ranges – up to manual focus, exposure compensation change / display, changing the white balance (toward red or blue), and speed – to control via the rather slippery dial. And the HC7 supplies a microphone input and headphone jack. For ease of shooting, Sony offers an excellent optical image stabilizer and Active Interface Shoe SuperSteadyShot plus Super NightShot infrared mode for when you need to tape in the dark. A fine selection of sockets complete the HC7 including one HDMI. 3 and component outputs. And while most camcorders have a FireWire port – i. Link, if you’re Sony – Sony does bundle a cable unit. Among other niceties equipped an electronic lens cover, a LANC connector, and a flash for pictures. Like most of Sony’s consumer models, the HC7 incorporates the love-it-or-hate-it touch screen interface I fall more in the camp that hate, especially on small HC7 years 4:09 p.m. 2. 7-inch LCD. In the menus you’ll find eight scene modes, change exposure to 24 steps, manual, interior , outdoor and automatic white balance and manual adjustment of shutter speed from 1 / 2 and 1/500th second. Spot Focus and Spot Meter take advantage of the interface by letting you literally point at your subject. Weighing 1 pound, 7 oz with battery and tape, I found the HC7 quite comfortable to hold and shoot, but only using the touch screen required an awkward balancing act with both hands. Although inconvenient for menu navigation, the LCD also works very well and remains visible in the difficult lighting. I generally prefer shooting with an eye level viewfinder, though, and wish Sony had padded the hard plastic eyecup.