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Sony’s fresh debut-level HDD camcorder, the DCR-SR40, did its first appearance this fall in a busy market, with features of media, video standards, and makers competing for users’ attentiveness. It is a market in flow, because HD video turns a low-priced choice for the masses and appliance-tailored formats as HDD develop in status. With an array of choices offered to users, the DCR-SR40 may have a rough sledding establishing a name for it. It makes average video, shoots still images so small in size they hardly merit to be noted, and it tolls more than numerous DV or debut-level DVD camcorders. Still there is one field in which the SR40 outshines more or less any other camcorder we have checked: simplicity of use – and that might come out to be its state of grace.

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The Sony DCR-SR40 is bounded in its still image features likened to most camcorders available today. There is just one still resolution offered, that is 640 x 480, which equals to about 0.3megapixel. The ordinary low-class digital still camera hence provides about twenty times that resolution. 640 x 480 is well for very low-class web images, and even that is turning a resolution of the past.

The camcorder presents the selection between Fine and Standard qualities. Similar to the DCR-SR60 and DCR-SR80, no Memory Stick Duo slot is offered, but these two models present a higher resolution up to 1152 x 864, in addition to bracket and burst shooting modes not received here.

Almost all the manual functions you receive in video mode are also discovered in still mode. These manual functions include exposure, focus, white balance, zoom, along with all the digital effects.

In replay (playback) mode, the camcorder provides a slideshow option. Still images come out as thumbnails on the Liquid crystal display. If you wish to view them in maximum size, just tap on them and they occupy the display screen.

Performance

As discussed over in Still Characteristics, a 640 x 480 resolution is fine for only one thing. In bright light, the DCR-SR40’s still image results were granular and dull. The image result missed fine detail and appeared very much dark.

The DCR-SR80 is capable to develop a bigger image of 1152 x 864 sizes, which improved the fine detail but acted nothing to enhance color result. The actual color interpreting was rather dissimilar from the DCR-SR40. Though the SR40 was darker and duller, the SR80 was brighter, with some colors washed out for example red and green and others for example yellow and blue taking too much supremacy. Both of the two camcorders raised a lot of noise.

The Sony DCR-DVD105, their debut-level camcorder, made still images somewhat the same to the DCR-SR40. The JVC GZ-MG37, an HDD camcorder little more valuable as compared to the SR40, developed a picture that was more washed out but was noisy to a lesser extent. By stating that we don’t mean that the noise levels were tolerable, they were no doubt rather high, but they appeared better. Eventually, we considered a top player for comparing sake. The Panasonic SDR-S150 no doubt develops much bigger still images equal to the 2048 x 1612. The still result is fantabulous, having clean lines, low noise, and brilliant, distinct colors. This camcorder far excelled any other model in this category; however you will spend for it, with an MSRP about 400US Dollars greater than the DCR-SR40.

Relatively, the Sony DCR-DVD105 appeared just very similar, and it provided the equal maximal resolution. The JVC GZ-MG37 created still images in large size, at a maximal 1632 x 1224. It depicted lesser noise and improved color performance. The Sony DCR-SR80 did not feature rather the color balance and strength that the JVC rendered, but the resolution was more in high spirits (2016 x 1512). The larger imagery establishes a marked betterment over the SR40’s 1/5.5inches Charge-coupled device. The Panasonic SDR-S150 was perhaps the most beneficial of this gang as a hybrid camcorder. The images were a slightly granular, on the other hand the color balance was better (dull in the greens) and the resolution was rich and high (2048 x 1512). The image was sharper, finishing out a best overall result.