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

Terence Watts

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....

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.

--
Tony Morgan

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.

I bought this camera in November 2006. I am new to digital video and bought the camera to use underwater, so it wont be used for that until things get a little warmer. However took it on my skiing hols in Jan and I am very pleased indeeed. Battery life was no problem, my wife walked round all day in Sub zero temps and there was lots of power remaining for casual shooting in the evening. I have now edited the stuff we shot and the quality is great. My only moan is that the zoom control is very sensitive. The other thing i must say is that the editing software that comes with it is not good. I have bought Ulead video studio 8 (my first editing suite) and thats easy to use. Unfortunately i havent been able to load directly from camera to studio 8. I use the sony software to get it onto my PC then drag and drop into Studio 8. If you do this use the edit function in the sony software to change the sound file to Mpeg or you wont hear anything in studio. If anyone reading this knows a better way of going about things i would be glad to here from them.

Thanks Terry - I've just got back from Hong Kong (about 1 hour
ago...). Wish I'd had that new machine then!

I took a few movie clips on a Pentax Optio S6, taking them on the CD
card - but they won't play back via the PC, nor can I get them in to
edite them :-(

I'll just about to post a question to see if anybody knows how to do
this...


Terence

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:43:11 +0000, Terry Bromley
wrote:


Terence Watts Wrote:
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:
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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.-

I bought this camera in November 2006. I am new to digital video and
bought the camera to use underwater, so it wont be used for that until
things get a little warmer. However took it on my skiing hols in Jan
and I am very pleased indeeed. Battery life was no problem, my wife
walked round all day in Sub zero temps and there was lots of power
remaining for casual shooting in the evening. I have now edited the
stuff we shot and the quality is great. My only moan is that the zoom
control is very sensitive. The other thing i must say is that the
editing software that comes with it is not good. I have bought Ulead
video studio 8 (my first editing suite) and thats easy to use.
Unfortunately i havent been able to load directly from camera to studio
8. I use the sony software to get it onto my PC then drag and drop into
Studio 8. If you do this use the edit function in the sony software to
change the sound file to Mpeg or you wont hear anything in studio. If
anyone reading this knows a better way of going about things i would be
glad to here from them.