| A | is outstanding and exceptional, rated in the top 10% of camcorders. |
| B | means they are good, with some standout features. |
| C | means they are mediocre, and probably more trouble than they are worth. |
| D & F | mean they are absolutely awful or old. Avoid at all costs. |
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- 2 out of 5
Very nice useless camera
(Newlpost - 9/2/07)The SR1 is one of 5 HD video cameras I own. It had a specific purpose... be small (as the big ones can be difficult at times).
It does take rather excellent images limited by the lens (obviously not equal to pro lenses). All the sound limitations and lens limits are OK when used as B roll or C roll footage or for hard to get tight place secondary shots.
What makes it useless is that once you take the footage, you are dead. It almost seems as if Sony wanted to make sure this camera will never be used for real (professional) work or anything with a time factor. Sony's own general video software does not support this camera's footage. It can be ( I did it) hacked, but the result is hugely time costly and impossible to keep track of portions in the process.
There is NO FIREWIRE port and so any edit mechanism that uses firewire control is out. The HDMI output is not vanilla. So many observations converge on only one logic... something for the riff raff to play with. If you are thinking of using this as a small fill shot camera, for real work, think better.
