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Sony DCR-SR60

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Sony DCR-SR60

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Sony HDD videocam (Model DCR-SR60)

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4 Jun 4th, 2008 

6 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

Advantages:
Lightweight, compact, great for taking on holiday, plenty of room on HDD

Disadvantages:
Found the camera microphone sensitive to wind noise at times .

Recommendable Yes:

Detailed rating:

Ease of use

Recording quality

Picture quality

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Jim2003

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I purchased the Sony HDD cam towards the end of 2007. It cost me just over $1100 Australian, (around 320 GBP).
The camera is light, compact, with easy to follow controls. Although the model is listed as SR60, in fact the hard-drive storage is 30gb, and I've found that this provides more than adequate room for my needs. You can record on this camera in several modes - Ive just set mine on High Quality mode which according to the instruction book is good for around 440minutes recording time- surely enough to satisfy most video buffs !
I'm not a whizz at connecting these things up, and getting the info on to computer, but I found the Sony remarkably easy to deal with. It was just a matter of putting the camera on its cradle, and transferring the digital footage through a supplied cord to the 2.0 USB slot of my computer (on which I'm running Windows XP Home).
The camera came with a basic video editing package called Pixela Imagemixer. When the video footage is successfully transferred to the PC, you can make simple cuts, and re-arrange clips etc.
However, I wanted to do more with the footage, as I like using Windows Movie Maker to edit my videos. Problem was that the digital video wouldn't show up in WMM - only sound could be heard. I learnt after some experimentation that it was necessary to convert the original digital mpeg files to a different type of MPEG sound file. This was easy to do with Pixela - it gives you this option. Then when you've converted the file, you can edit the footage OK on Windows Movie Maker.

Overall impressions -- I was impressed with the quality of this Sony camera. It's very portable, and it has an easy-to-follow LCD screen. I would recommend it to fellow Ciao video enthusiasts. 
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I found this video camera lightweight and a handy accessory when travelling.

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Stg27 04.06.2008 15:00

Good review. I'm still getting to grips with my camcorder.

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