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Sony DCR-HC46 Camcorder Review
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Sonys DCR-HC46 is
presentation for MiniDV this year. It is not too costly, not too
low-priced. Not too meager on characteristics and surely not full loaded
on the characteristics, also. It gives all the ease that distinct a
Sony, but the video carried some problems. |
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Features
The HC46 (USD420) captures
still images in the JPEG format In order to save them onto Memory Stick
Duo and Memory Stick PRO Duo cards, which load in the Liquid crystal
display cavity. Resolution measurements are 640 x 480 (0.3megapixel),
1152 x 864 (1.0megapixel), and 1152 x 648 (0.7megapixel widescreen). It
has the power to save all stills in Fine or Standard quality categories.
If you shooting in video mode having a widescreen, 16:9 ratio and press
the still shutter button, the camcorder will shift to a fourth
resolution size that is 640 x 360 (0.2megapixel). No card is supplied
with the camcorder.
No flash is offered in the
HC46, and also no accessory shoe is given to fit it later on. These two
characteristics are given in the next model, the HC96 (USD516). The HC46
presents burst mode, which can capture thirteen 640 x 480 picture in a
sequence, or four 1152 x 864 and 1152 x 648 pictures, at half second
time intervals. Still mode has a timer feature which can be adjusted for
10 seconds intervals. The HC46 is also capable of recording short MPEG4
movies onto Memory Stick having resolutions of 320 x 240 and 160 x 112.
The camcorder is also PictBridge simpatico for comfortable printing with
printers.
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Still Performance
The Sony DCR-HC46s still
performance is not its specialty. The color balance is perfectly Very
great and shaped with splotched blue noise. The total picture has a
light blue wash, as though the picture was captured under sun not having
right white balance, while we can make certain to you that we captured
the image in indoor lighting and in the right manner white balanced it.
In addition to the blue noise, also observed blackish and whitish noise
in great quantity.
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Video Performance
The Sony DCR-HC46 (USD420)
features a 1/5.5inch Charge-coupled device (CCD) having 1.07 gross mega
pixels. The manual describes 690K effective pixels, whereas it does not
define what ratio this relates to or whether this feature is with the
electronic image stabilization on or off.
At 3000 lux, the HC46
developed a fine quality image in most respects. The image is sharp,
sharper than that developed by the majority camcorders with only littler
smaller 1/6inch chips. Subject borders are clearly defined, but not due
to extreme in-camera sharpening, which you will frequently find on
consumer camcorders.
Low Light Performance
At 60
lux, the DCR-HC46 sustained the colors that were much saturated in
bright light conditions, similar to the blues and greens, and missed the
less saturated reds. Thus, this low light picture is quite uneven. The
reds are obviously under-represented and look weak. Noise increased very
much, with the blue noise coming out everywhere in the image. As Sony
experienced last year that this was a drawback, it has no genuine reason
for continuing it. The HC36 and HC96 did not give as large amount of a
problem with blue noise, which shows that the HC46 did not get an
advanced imaging set up.
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