Sony Handycam DCR-HC44E

Sony Handycam DCR-DVD205E

special video cassettes unlike Digital VT, you shoot whatever you re filming, finalize the end result, and pop it in any DVD player, I use a Playstation and found most Sony products compliment each other quite well. >What s It Got? < The Handycam in general has a lot of electronic wizardry and gizmo s, there is a 2.7" TFT Touch screen for all your commands and setting features, dates and times as well as the most obvious task, to see what you re filming, a 12X optical zoom with stabilization function, a digital zoom with an 800X Zoom (although it has this function, you really shouldn t need to zoom this close!), a "Carl Zeiss" Vario TessarTM lens ...

Sony Handycam DCR-DVD205E

I bought this camera as I had read some pretty good reviews about it, and it came at a very reasonable price. The camera itself was a nice, compact camcorder, that fitted nicely in the palm of my hand. All the buttons on the camera were well laid out, and were very accessible with the shooting hand. The quality of the picture outdoors was very goo, I have no complaints, however the picture indoors in low light was very grainy, even in 'high' quality mode. The only other problem I encountered with this camcorder, was to do with the processing and editing of the final dvd. This is not so easy, and I found myself trawling through pages and pages of online forums and guides to ...

Sony Handycam DCR-IP55

I have recently seen it in John Lewis for £999. Be very aware that to do justice to MicroMV (Sony's version of MPEG2) you basically need to buy into the Sony way of life (aka VAIO). I made the mistake of thinking that Pinnacle Studio DV+ Version 7 could deal with this..well, not even Version 8 does in truth, with no ability to export back to the camera, once you have finished editing. This really blighted our experience of this format, as did Sony's version of Firewire, which, unlike the Mac, does not allow either for recharging. I used the dismal Sony MovieShaker software on a brand new NEC 1.7Ghz Athlon and Carrera 2.2 Ghz Athlon (the latter fitted with the ...