Sony - DCR-SR200 Review

Overall 1.00 of 5 (by 1 user)

MsNelson
Honolulu, HI

Not the quality I expect from Sony.

Every day computer user

NOV

2008

Sony - DCR-SR200 —

The Sony DCR-SR200 camcorder has 40 GB memory on its hard drive. This seems like a fantastic way to travel light, without having to lug boxes of tapes around. In reality, it can cause paranoia that one crash will delete all of your movies, so I travel with an external hard drive and back up the video often. Ok, the hard drive is still smaller than a box of tapes, so maybe this part isn't all bad.
There are 2 microphone settings to adjust audio input, however, with no audio output jack, there is no way to monitor what sound level is actually being recorded. Since I use the camera to cover a lot of dance and musical events, this is a huge "minus"!
The biggest problem with this camera is that it records the data in mpeg-2 format. As a mac user, I had to purchase extra software (Sony only includes PC software with the camera) to even be able to view the video on my computer. I have to convert all video before I can do any editing, which is time consuming.
This camera seemed like a good idea in theory, but I have not been pleased with the reality of it.