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5 Reviews for Sony HDR-SR12E HD Hard Disc Drive Handycam - 10MP
Truly Remarkable - 09 Aug 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
I wanted a new camcorder for the holidays. I come from the era of tape, and although I have gone digital in all other areas, this was the last one to be upgraded. My first camcorder was a Hitachi, that was a Super VHS-C, would record 30 minutes, and the thing looked like what the BBC camera men would carry and it cost £1,500.00 back in 1991. My we have come a long way!
The Sony camcorder is simply stunning (not without faults - later!).
With the £50.00 cash back its only £690.00 or there about. I have given it 5 stars, but it should score a 4.75, as it does have some flaws, but these are very minor gripes when you consider what you get.
Firstly, it looks the nuts. It looks cool; it's well built and oozes quality. For me I would class it as tiny, it sits in the palm of my hand, so no more lugging around large camcorders, tape and bags etc. That is a big advantage.
The menu system makes it very easy to use, the touch screen works like a dream, and the image on the little screen is truly superb. I love all of it.
Sony really has got it together when it comes to consumer electronics. The accessories are mainly the cables, with a docking shoe, which is useful for charging when not in use.
The picture quality far surpasses my expectations. My wife's garden looked simply stunning on our 46 inch 1080p Sony Bravia. The colours don't run like on the old tape camcorders, and the greens of the trees in the garden are virtually life like. I can't explain how good they look. The camcorder was primarily bought for outside holiday shooting and for this it will be ideal.
Here is the big selling point for me, and where Sony gets it right ahead of all the other competition. Inter connectivity with other Sony products. I can plug the camera into my PlayStation 3, via the USB cable and simply either watch the footage on the TV via the PS3, or can even copy the footage to the PS3 and keep it on there and watch when I want. This for me is truly the best thing ever, no more burning DVD's or plugging it into the TV etc; I can just plug into the PS3 copy it off and watch it. That for me is the major advantage of digital technology and where Sony has got it right.
Our PS3 is the centre of our living room, we have all our digitalphoto's on ther, all of our music, and now we can have all of our home movies on there.
I can now just get myself a larger external hard drive, and simply have a library of my footage on a hard drive and can simply watch when needed, no more discs, no more burning DVD's.
Convenient it is.
My only 2 gripes are these.
You can set it to fade in and out when recording, but you have to remember to do it every time, you cannot default it. Something my old Sony tape camcorder would not do either.
Secondly, fast panning shots do become slightly blurred, so when doing panning shots, you have to take them slow, but it can happily record moving footage as long as your not moving fast, trees in the wind looked brilliant, but pan away fast and it will blur, but I can't imagine my old camcorder did any different.
So there yo have it, its well built, quality, superbly convinient, cheap, great picture and only minor faults.
Well done Sony.
lost data - 21 Jul 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
i bought this camera to film a friends wedding it was great not having to change tapes, and i bought a bigger battery which lasted all day. I also bought the sony vegas movie studio so that i could edit the wedding as a present for my friend, i have used premier elements before but thought i would use sonys product thinking it would run smoothly. I put the camera in the docking station and opened sony vegas i renamed some clips and imported clips into the media files and left some clips on the hard drive. i then thought i need to save the whole footage on a disc so that i didn't loose any. i used the one touch disc burn on the docking station,after doing this i looked back on the camera and all i can see is a symbol like a broken chain and clips that i didn't name have gone off the computer. I have looked through the manual and cannot find any info on this and seem to be left with only part of the wedding. I don't seem to be able to get any help on this as i'm not sure if i have lost the data or not. So although the camera has been great to use its no good if i don't have confidence at editing i feel that i can't use the camera again until i find out what has gone wrong. and i can't edit my friends wedding. There needs to be more back up support from sony.
Beware! - 28 Jun 2008
35 out of 42 found this review helpful.
This is a brillant camcorder that I was on the point of buying to cover a holiday in Peru. HOWEVER if you look on the Sony web site for the handbook, you will discover that use above 3000metres will destroy its hard drive!!!
I have spoken to Sony UK Technical department about this and they not only confirmed the above but also said that switching to record on the memory stick will NOT get round it. As soon as you turn the camcorder on it will damage the hard drive if above 3000m.
This was not mentioned in any sales literature or specifications, only the handbook -normally read after you've bought it!!
this is very good camcorder - 21 Jun 2008
3 out of 16 found this review helpful.
these sony camcorder got flash when took a pictures. the video quality is very good I gave 4 stars. 80%, I think this quality it's enough for me.
thank you. I love the colour shining black. I will using this camcorder to record all my good memories.
HDR-SR12E - 02 May 2008
31 out of 31 found this review helpful.
I updated my old Tape FUJI camera for the Sony SR12E unit and the performance of this camera is brillant. The operation is easy and not difficult to to get great results out of the box without having to go through the CD based manual. The camera is a little heavier than the current small camcorders but this one is packed with features with loads of options.
There is a couple of problems however. If your hand is not too large it can be difficult to reach the top mounted "Photo" and "Zoom" buttons. Another excuse for the wife not to use it. Likewise the record button on the back can also be diffiecut to reach but I am getting used to it. The backlight compensation switch is activated using a very small button just under the front of the lens which takes a bit of finding when you are in the middle of shooting a scene.
The optional 37mm ND filter and Polarising filter kits are not available as they have been "Discontinued" according the the local Sony shop. Strange for a "NEW" camera product.
Other than that the camera has with its 120GB hard disk storage got loads or capacity before having to upload into a computer for burning to DVD. The camera has a very simple to use editing function where you can split the recorded image at selectable points to get rid of unwanted sections and then discarding the parts you dont want. I have no idea as to the data managment of the hard drive when sections are deleted but hopefully Sony will have worked out the problem of de-fragmentation of the drive so that delted files dont use up recording capacity without having to clean up the drive from scratch.
Only one last comment. If you can afford one GET one you wont be dissapointed.
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