Sony Handycam HDR-SR12E

Professional video at amateur price (700 words)
by nickn5 - written on 26/07/09, updated on 27/07/09 (Very useful, 123 readings)
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Sixthly, it turns on and off pretty quickly, and if you really want fast access, there is a facility to put it on Standby, or Quick On as Sony call it. Seventhly, you can stick a Memory Stick Pro Duo into it to save all your photos to, freeing up hard drive space for video and enabling much easier transferring to the computer. You can choose whether to save pictures, video, or both to the Memory Stick. I d recommend just staying with still pictures as video files are enormous. Eighthly, nightshot mode - enables night time shooting of video with a nifty infra-red kind of look (in green). This has limited usefulness but it s nice to have the feature available. ...

Sony Handycam HDR-SR12E

Compact Device, with a qood quality Video (279 words)
by chris_14 - written on 03/08/09 (Useful, 28 readings)
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After much research we decided to go with this Sony HDR-SR12 in order to complete some basic video and then to edit it. The camcorder cost around £800 when we bought it which is not cheap but when you understand some of the features this cam corder has it starts to seem a little more realistic. The Sony has an inbuilt 120Gb Hard drive as well as the option to add an SD card which we have found more handy for holding the stills that this cam corder is also capable of taking. The 120Gb is claimed to store around 48 hours of video all though we found that after about 30 it was getting close to being full. The battery life is okay but we have noticed that even if the ...