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Sony Handy cam HDR-UX7 DVD
Camcorder
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Sony's
highest-level AVCHD camcorder this year is USD1,299.99 HDR-UX7. It
improved in the HDR-UX1 last year first performance (review, Specs,
recent news, USD729.95) altogether with bigger 1/3 inches 3200K G.Pixels
ClearVID CMOS sensor while retaining its senior’s microphone jack and
the manual control. UX7 loses the multi-purpose ring control,
changing it with a smaller – and less comprehensible - dial.The
HDR-UX7 continues Sony’s high-class user camcorder style of late which
is to introduce an primary model with plenty of pleasing characteristics
and then follow up with latest camcorders that develop in imaging but
drop some of the characteristics that made the first appearance so
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Sony moved advance when it
replaced the much praised HDR-HC1 (Specs, 2295) with the HDR-HC3
(Review, Specs, USD969.99). The HDR-HC3 did have some imaging
development but drop the ring power and the microphone lever. We touched
Sony overboard throwing off the professional properties that gave fame
to the HC1. The properties on the UX7 show that may be, Sony is
answering to those consumers who want greater than a punt-en-shooter for
their 1000USD plus amount. Whereas the HDR-UX7 changes the ring with a
dial, the microphone lever remains. Further in our full review, we will
clear the query of whether the HDR-UX7’s enormous imager creates it a
worthy advance, or if it is something to “sidegrades” we have seen all
too frequently at the user end.
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Features
Sony is pushing this
camcorder and the HDR-HC7 as fusion skilled at taking the best still
photographs, as a result of theirs big CMOS sensor.Looks
like the HDR-HC7, the HDR-UX7’s characteristics lists its stills
resolution as being capable of 6.1Megapixel.Other sizes are:
4.6Megapixel, 3.1Megapixel, and 0.3Megapixel. Unluckily, also like the
HDR-HC7, the HDR-UX7 doesn’t offer MP ranges for these sizes. We are
acquainted with that the 4.6Megapixel stills are widescreen whereas the
other sizes are all typical 4:3 feature.
6.1 Mega pixel is a
remarkable resolution on record. If color has also enhanced over the
dull tones of the UX1 (USD730)’s stills, the hybrid capacities of the
UX7 can be worthy selling point. In our full review of this camcorder we
will comprehensively appraise its stills.
Each of the manual
features offered in video recording mode are presented in still capture
form, that include AE shift, WB shift, exposure, and focus. Unluckily,
since HDR-UX7 doesn’t possess manual shutter speed control for video
recording, still photography mode doesn’t offer this feature. Shutter
speed setting to both video recordings and still photography is offered
on the HDR-HC7.
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Video Performance
The Sony HDR-UX7 is
available with the same 1/2.9inche ClearVID CMOS sensor (3.2 Mega
pixels) of Sony's top-end consumer HDV camcorder for the year 2007, the
HDR-HC7 (USD1128.56).This sensor is an advancement of the UX line. This
is the most important factor in distinguishing between the HDR-UX7 and
her sister’s buck the HDR-UX5 which has a 2.1 Mega pixels CMOS.We wait
for seeing superior stuffs from the 3.2 Mega pixels sensors that also
appears in the HDV HDR-HC7. Though, we also look forward to see some
dissimilarity in the performance of high-end high-definition camcorders |
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When we do the analysis of
the HDR-UX1 (USD730) last fall, in both the camcorder’s Full and
Standard Definition recording styles. We came to know about the fine
class color features and sharpness in open light that closely matched
the astral video recordings of the HDR-HC3 (USD969.99). Sharpness and
color features are remarkable. With a spanking new compression
algorithm, AVCHD, to compress a large HD image down to 12Mbps at its
maximum bit rate, the UX1 gave a noise. The noise problems are sharp and
rise to worse at the lowest levels of illumination. For the time being,
AVCHD simply can not compete HDV for the overall image quality because
HDV has a higher fixed bit rate of 25Mbps. The larger imager should
enhance results, but the AVCHD will still affect picture quality.
Low Light
Performance
We guess the HDR-UX7
better performance than the HDR-UX1 in low light; it is because of its
3.2 Mega pixels imager. In spite of the noise issues, UX1 sustained much
of its color and resolution reliability to 60 lux, and transformed into
a respectable photo to 15 lux.While we suppose AVCHD’s increasing pains
to improve over time, it remains whether the HDR-UX7 big imaging
features will have a great effect on the camcorder's low-light noise,
though it should get better in light gathering sensitivity.
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