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Sony HDR-HC1 HDV Camcorder Review
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Though the camcorder will
not ship for a further fifteen days, we have special first hands on
reassessment of Sony's fresh, under USD2,000 High Definition (HDV)
camcorder, the HDR-HC1. If you were expecting for quality consumer
low-priced HD in a well-conducted camcorder, the time has arrived. At a
cost of below two fantastic, the HDR-HC1 is poised to be a great
marketer, and not simply for it is the most low-priced HDV personal
video tool yet to come to the market. Behind its HDV Company emblem is a
camcorder with a surprisingly clearly defined image and performance in
many circumstances that fulfills this new engineering's name. |
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Features
The HDR-HC1 has the
capability of recording stills onto Memory Stick Duos at a pixel
resolution equal to 1920 x 1440. The most interesting thing about this
pixel resolution is that it is slenderly higher as compare to the video
resolution, but this difference is only in vertical dimension, not in
horizontal side. As follows, the resolution of the video in HD is a
supposedly about 1920 x 1080 pixel. When you move to still mode the
resolution switches to the size of 1920 x 1440. This adds up, as the
chip is in fact 4:3, and Sony only cuts off the upside and underside for
the 16:9 HD mode. Certainly, the chip bears more than an adequate amount
of pixels, so it does not raise any difficulty; the pixels are formed in
such a way that we can still name it an original 16:9 chip camcorder.
The HDR-HC1 features a
flash which can be adjusted to high, normal, or low levels. The flash
bears a push button to employ or free it, on the left side of the lens
drum. Furthermore the HDR-HC1 features a burst shot mode it has the
ability to make recording of 3 to 25 images in a row in 25-second time
interval. That is a fairly exciting Burst mode for a camcorder, while I
desire it was in 1/4 second mode time interval. You are able to
photograph Exposure Bracketed bursts of three stills. The camcorder is
also PictBridge-simpatico that means you are given facility to connect
it to a PictBridge-compatible printing machine to move stills for direct
printing.
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Performance
The still photography
result of the HDR-HC1 is much extraordinary, although for a camcorder
offered for more or less 2000 bones, it can possibly be regarded "worth
the money". The camcorder possess almost the same still features to the
DCR-PC1000 (USD700), one more of Sony's CMOS chip camcorders, whereas
not an HDV camcorder in any way. The HDR-HC1's still performance is much
better as compared to the DCR-PC1000 in many manners.
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The freshness of the
HDR-HC1's stills is the first performance you will acknowledge. Not just
are lines of the color chart clearly defined and good, but the lines
between the color strips are unbelievably firm, fresh and clear. So, the
specialty of the color tiles in these stills is unbelievable, and naught
like what we have experienced from corresponding, if there are any,
camcorders.
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