Thank you Tony - I had heard about this loss of quality problem
before. I think I'll stick with my Panasonic NV GS5 for a while
longer...

Terence


On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:44:40 +0000, Tony Morgan
wrote:

In message , DoDo
writes
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:03:48 +0000, Terence Watts
wrote:

Does anybody have any experience of the Sony DCRSR90 handycam? Or, at
least, have some idea of battery life?

According to the manual, battery life is cca 115 minutes. I have this
camcorder just 2 days, and record one indoor soccer game(60 min), take
a few pics, watch on camcorder some sequences and on lcd screen it
says that i have 45 min left....

Like all camcorders, the battery life of each model depends to a large
extent on how you use it. Use of zoom and auto-focus noticeably reduce
battery life. Most camcorder owners soon get themselves a second
larger-capacity battery.

Your question did get me thinking, though. A miniDV tape gives you 1
hour's recording - which interestingly almost equates with the battery
life of the supplied battery (usually with a little more to spare). The
hard-disk camcorders, though promising up to 30 hours of continuous
recording will require up to 30 (standard) battery changes to support
the 30-hour recording on the hard disk. You might, perhaps, see where
I'm coming from :-)

Among the many people I know who are camcorder enthusiasts, I don't
know anyone who has bought a Hard Disk camcorder - mainly (I suspect)
because of the failure of Sony (at least) to provide good video editing
software - and the limited support by the video editing software
companies. I also wonder about the reduction in quality, once you start
doing any editing. This aspect is highlighted by a couple of the
contributors to the Caio review site.