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Sony DCR-SR45 30GB Hard Drive Handycam Camcorder with 40x Optical Zoom

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records video to a built-in 30GB hard disk drive * 680,000-pixel image sensor (410K effective) * digital photo mode * 40X Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar® optical zoom lens (digital zoom to 2000X) * Super SteadyShot® *

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Product Details

Product Length:	8.0 inches
Product Width:	10.0 inches
Product Height:	6.0 inches
Product Weight:	3.0 pounds
Package Length:	7.6 inches
Package Width:	6.9 inches
Package Height:	5.4 inches
Package Weight:	2.35 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 30 reviews

Features

Capture video to hard disk drive; 30 GB storage
40x optical zoom, 2000x digital zoom; Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens
2.7-inch widescreen touch-panel Clear Photo LCD
Built-in zoom microphone with 5.1-channel recording
Memory Stick Pro Duo media slot

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 3.5

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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

Big bang for the buck in a tiny package! Oct 04, 2008
We have an aging Sony Hi 8mm and tired of buying tapes. Two friends have the Sony DCR SR42 that this model replaces. Sony improved on a great product!

It is easy to operate, has great sound and quality video recording, light weight, and priced right. Not great for taking still photos, but then it is sold as a camcorder not a still picture camera.

If you are looking for a good camera for vacations and catching family moments then this is a perfect camera. If you are looking for a professional quality camera, then drop $2000 and buy one.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

So far - so good Sep 26, 2008
bought this cam for the arrival of our little boy. everything seems pretty good, the still camera is not very good - quality wise, but it's not a still cam, it's a video cam. we've had it just over a month and all seems well so far.

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Good camera, but should be better Sep 23, 2008
This is a good Camera for the price, but I think you should find a better one for additional $70-100. It's compact, has a very nice zoom and HD capacity, accepts MS cards and has a useful touch screen that allows you to access all functions. But it has a very limited CCD, that doesn't allow you to have very high resolution recordings. The movies look nice in the small 2.7 screen, but it will be not so good for presenting in bigger screens, like a 32" LCD or higher.

If you like Sony, I recommend you to look for DCR-SR65 or better.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

Cool camcorder!!! Sep 18, 2008
Its worth your money..i'm satisfied with the product though the picture is little grainy but its easy to handle...but if you watch the movie on the t.v. screan, its good!the sound quality is perfect! what else can you get in such a low price?....its cool!!

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Good for the cost Sep 17, 2008
I've had this camera for the first few weeks and I am still in the process of learning how to use it. However there are a few things I can comment on. First, it is correct that the absence of optical vewfinder is a real problem with sunlit bright scenes: you just cannot see what you are filming, the LCD is not strong enough to fight the glare from the sun, so you are left blind.
The software that comes with the camera is bizarre, in the sense that it describes various operations but without any explanations as to what they really are or why it is good to have them, or what it does in the end. For example, following the downloading of the images into one's computer, the software goes through "analyzing" the videos. I still do not know what that does and why this is good to do. (When I download the images via MS, there is no such requirements, and I can still use the images, play the videos, make them part of Premier Elements clips, etc.) Plus the extra files (.modd and .moff) that are created are anybody's guess as to why they are useful. Bizarre, bizzare.

Another negative, although I did not read this from anybody else. The strap that allows to hold the camera while filming is too small for my hand. In other words, when my right hand is through the loop I cannot easily have access to the control (record, zoom, etc.) I am trying now to rig something up that will allow full flexibility, but at the same time prevent the camera from slipping through my fingers and falling. (Note: my hands are standard size for a 6 ft adult but are also strong)

On the plus side; (1) the stability system is quite good, you can actually film maximum zoom (with an added telelens) and get a viewable image. (2) Another plus is the touch screen control. This is convenient (when there is no sun!)and the user interface is not too bad once you have read the manual. (3) This is one of the rare cameras for which you can find different lenses, such as tele, fisheye, or wide angle, so you can play more. (4) I also found that the still images that the camera takes are not bad at all (at least using the hard drive to record them on). I am not using this really because I have a SLR to does a much better job, but the results from the video camera are quite OK.

Overall I still have a ways to go to get to use it well. But this camera is OK, particularly when one is coming from an analog technology.