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Sony HDR-HC7 (HDV)
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A high definition
camcorder presented by Sony featuring CMOS imaging system, widescreen,
an option of recording in HD or DV forms, touch-screen feature and lots
of in/out links.
While to be sure that good
quality former digital tape camcorders are quickly yielding ground to
latest tape less HD formats such as AVCHD. It is no doubt that HDV - the
HD format that utilizes DV tapes is however containing its ground as the
format of selection for consumers who demand the level best quality
joined with the flexibleness to shift the video recording to a pc. |
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Sony's remarkable HDR-HC7
is among the group of three HDV camcorders; other two are the HC3 and
the HC5. All of them take pleasure in fame with serious operators since
they features superb picture and sound quality with an extraordinary
practicality and handiness.
First Impressions
It is the reality that the
HC7 has a lumpiness that renders it bettered strength when handholding
throughout shooting and this thing also makes it perfect for putting on
a tripod. It has been gifted with a complete group of approachable
controllers - though they are mostly spread between manual buttons
placed around the main structure and automatic buttons imbedded into the
menu structures as displayed on color wide screen Liquid crystal
displays and Liquid crystal display touch screen controls. The HC7 needs
its operator to be well known with the utility of touch-screen control.
HDV or DV tapes can be
loaded in the camcorder from the top. Hence you can insert or remove
tapes still sitting on a tripod without removing it. Buttons and
connectors all are at the location where they must be for effective
functioning. The numerous connectors needed for digital & analog signal
transfers are handily hidden at the back of the plastic doors and flaps
of the structure. Also warmly received is the placing of Liquid crystal
display frame-side controllers with touch-screen control icons, that
means that many important works for example Record Start/Stop and
Zooming can be performed by your left hand employing the controls placed
on the Liquid crystal display frame; the cam also features a very little
0.7inch color viewfinder which draws out horizontally. It does not seem
practical in the first impression.
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Features
The HC7 presents both HDV
and DV recording and replay styles. It employs Fire Wire to link to
either a pc for editing, deleting, modifying and exporting as 1440 x
1080 resolution HD. The operators have got the extra advantage of
analogue-to-digital signal changeover to DV. This camcorder can be
employed to record, in addition to playing back, standard DV. |
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During recording standard
DV, usual 4:3 and widescreen 16:9 modes are presented for that purpose.
These modes are presented with the number of manual control functions
for example aperture, white balance and focus. You can perform this task
by using the camcorders touch-screen panel.
Similar to many other Sony
models, the HC7 employs a 1/2.9inch CMOS, despite of a charge-coupled
device. Optical zoom ratio is 10:1 with the fullest lens of 5.1mm.
Consistent with the Sony
standard for detachable memory cards, the cam offers a slot for a Memory
Stick DUO. Hence it is doable to record movies on both to tape or memory
card.
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