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I was amazed with how smooth and clear everything appeared, especially with the low reviews I read about in low light, it blew my other camera (Canon Optura 50) out of the water. and only has one 1/2.9 single-chip cmos censor, but that's one reason why it's thousands of dollars cheaper. I purchased this camera mainly to have a professional look when shooting weddings and events. This camera with it's professional look came to my rescue. If you're used to working with industrial high-end expensive cameras, you'll probably be disapointed with this camera as it is limited in manual controls (no manual iris, xlr outputs etc.). It wouldn't be fair to compare it to a $10,000 or $20,000 camera, which I think some people were trying to do, especially with the poor reviews for low light conditions, plastic construction, and poor audio performance. I left everything in the default HDV settings and turned it on to shoot my kids playing indoors under bedroom light conditions.
This is a great camera if your looking for a camera like this one (which I was) or an affordable professional looking camera with good quality this camera is great when comparing it with other consumer cameras. This camera looks and feels great, there were some reviews bashing it's construction, but whenever I take it out of the bag, people are impressed.
Because this was a sub $2,000 camera I wasn't expecting a whole lot. I could hear the subject speaking clear with little motor or background noise.
I felt like I could produce a decent video using a normal consumer camera that would satisfy the customer just fine, but because most consumer cameras are so small the customer might not feel they were receiving a quality product. It also exceeded my expectations with audio, from what I read the shot-gun mic on this camera isn't the best, but I was greatly satisfied with it's performance.
I don't regret purchasing this camera one bit and I feel this will satisfy most all of my production free-lance needs People are now treating me much more seriously with respect because of my "high-end" camera look.
I was pleasently suprised with the performance of this camera, it out-performed all of my expectations.
The battery runs for only 2 hours so you may want to pick up a longer lasting one. The manual states that while in night shot mode you need to manualy focus the camera for a quicker responce time. It to keep the weight of the video camcorder to a minimum.The night shot works great, if you move camera to fast it will take a few seconds to focus.
It's light weight and well balanced for its size. The sound and video quality is just as good as the Sony SR-11 if not better. The Sony HVR- HD1000u video camcorder is perfect, 5 out of 5 stars.
The plastic feel that others may complain about isn't that bad, once you use it for a while you'll understand why. Editing HDV software is a must have and make sure it's HDV compatible.We use Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 platinum and it works great. I also own a SR-11 handycam that over time can get heavy and hard to hold up.
With the Sony 1000u the weight is on your sholder.
The other bad thing is that it does not have XLR so you have to get a beachtek box or something.For the money you can't beat this camera, clients love seeing you walk in with a big pro looking camera and not some tiny little handycam. Once you get used to controlling your settings with the ring, it really starts to feel great. The shoulder mount really helps get you steady shots when you can't use a tripod.The camera also has lots of outputs Firewire, Component, HDMI, S-video, Composite, USB, Memory stick (for stills) and it does all the downconversion to HD to SD on the fly.If they ever introduce another one with XLR inputs and a extra lens ring I will purchase it in a heart beat.This makes a great budget cam or a backup camera. I don't know what that other guy was saying but this camera feels solid and looks just like Sony's high end line of pro cameras. This is NOT the same as Panasonics puffed plastic cameras (dvc-7 dvc-15) This camera was designed by Sony's broadcast unit not it's consumer unit.The image quality is great, I didn't believe that 1 CMOS could look this good compared to a 3ccd setup but it is.The down sides are that allot of the controls are in the touch screen menu, which makes it a pain till you get used to using the "manual button" to quickly switch controls over to the ring.
This is a popular camera for higher end Video pro's in Viet Nam and is priced accordingly at around $4,000.00 for local purchase. His video quality in 480 is much better than his previous Camera's and the HD is a definite plus and future proofing. My Nephew has a Wedding Video and Photography studio in Viet Nam. He loves this camera.
I will continue using Amazon to buy all of my equipment. Amazon shipped it to me faster than they said they would and I had no problems. I work in video professionally and I am very happy with this camera. For the price its unbelievable.
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