This light but tough handycam is capable of storing up to 45 hours of footage on the on board 60GB hard-drive. It is the DCR-SR37ES model from Sony. If you are used to having to mess around with disk or tapes then you will love the hard-disk on this handycam. It makes watching, rearranging and deleting your content very simple and quick. What’s more, there’s no danger of erroneously recording over something that’s to be saved. And with the Sony DCR-SR37 there’s even a Face Index and Film Roll Index feature for easy browsing and reviewing of your footage.
With the Advanced 1 Megapixel HAD CCD the movie playback quality is tremendous. It works by placing a minute lens on top of each pixel so that as much light as possible can be focused onto it. This results in the image quality being enhanced and the colour noise reduced. You can achieve sharp and clean images when shooting due to the SteadyShot image stabilisation system. The widescreen touch panel LCD is 2.7 inches in size which makes for easy content viewing. The onboard zoom microphone makes a fine job of picking up the dialogue of your subjects and filtering out all the background noise. The lens made by Carl Zeiss contains a powerful 60x optical and up to 2000x digital zoom.
Even when you are filming a stationary subject you can easily ruin your shot by moving the camera. SteadyShot is a handy digital image stabiliser that is active every time you shoot. This issue is even more apparent when zooming in on distant subjects. The camera’s sound features allow you to record in close up too by using the super smart microphone which can zero in on the sounds you require such as your subject voices.
Sharing your content with the Sony DCRSR37ES camcorder is simple and fast. You can burn your content to a DVD by simply transferring it to your PC with the supplied USB 2.0 connection. It is even possible to burn from the camera without a PC if you are out and about. You need to buy the optional portable DVD burner for this and that will connect direct to the camera.
You can manage your movie collection on your PC by the installation of the software which is supplied with the Sony DCRSR37ES. It makes it a very easy task to create an archive. Movies can be organised by person or by date and searching is fast and efficient. From the archive you can burn them to discs, send them to friends or upload them to sites in a matter of seconds. If you connect your SR37 or computer directly to any TV you can view your work on the big screen too.
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