Reviewed by 2 Customers
Good professional camera
By Niko
from Finland on 2008-12-25
An excellent camera that has professional-style controls. I shoot mostly
in Standard Definition, and SD quality is much better than with Sony
HVR-Z1. There is just a little overshoot in edges with heavy contrast.
It's a good idea to use -6 dB as your default gain setting as this will
reduce noise a bit.
Problems:
Avid doesn't support importing time code from CF media recorded with this
camera. This is a real downside if you work with Avid Media Composer. All
the imported clips start from TC 00:00:00:00. If only Sony had a tool for
converting the Raw DV or QuickTime clips to MXF, this would fix it.
Great Camera
By Sam
from Tasmania on 2008-12-22
A great all round camera, easy to use and a good step towards ENG
cameras. Picture quality is fantastic and recording to compact flash is
such a good thing.
Problems:
The supplied lens struggles with macro.