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Sony DCR-SR42 30GB Hard Disk Drive Handycam Camcorder with 40x Optical Zoom

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Sony DCR-SR42 30GB Hard Disk Drive Handycam Camcorder with 40x Optical Zoom

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Stop stopping. None of us likes to switch tapes in the middle of a shoot, or waste time rewinding and capturing. That's why the DCR-SR42 Handycam camcorder contains a 30GB built-in hard disk drive (HDD) storage and allows you to capture up to 20 hours of recording time (LP) so you don't need to mess around with tapes. A brilliant 2.5" Touch Panel LCD display keeps the controls at your fingertips while a 40x optical/2000x digital zoom makes sure you catch all the detail. And when it comes time to share your memories, it couldn't be easier with the one touch disc burn capability and the Memory Stick Duo media slot. The DCR-SR42 puts the simplicity back into shooting and sharing your videos.

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Our Price:	$559.99
Sale Price:	$549.99
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Product Details

Product Length:	7.6 inches
Product Width:	7.0 inches
Product Height:	6.5 inches
Product Weight:	0.81 pounds
Package Length:	7.5 inches
Package Width:	6.6 inches
Package Height:	6.3 inches
Package Weight:	2.35 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 77 reviews

Features

30 GB built-in hard drive; record up to 20 hours
Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens; 40x optical/2000x digital zoom
2.5-inch touch-panel SwivelScreen LCD
Super SteadyShot picture stabilization system
Handycam Station included; one-touch disc burn

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 4.0

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Good Handycam Aug 12, 2008
Merits:

1. It's a Sony! (Brand value).
2. Compact and light-weight.
3. Carl Zeiss lens.
4. hard disk memory, easy to transfer to computer.
5. I got the refurbished one from sonystyle.com for 300 bucks. Thats pretty cheap for a 40x zoom HDD camcorder from sony.
6. Motion picture quality is good.

Demerits:
1. Does not have a view finder.
2. The Still picture quality is not that great (As indicated by others too).
3. Does not have a neck strap (Or any provision for that).
4. You need the camcorder dock to charge as well as transfer movies into Computer.
5. The bundled video editor doe not have much functionality. Only you can cut a video, i could not find any option to merge several videos into one.

Overall i like this camcorder, i will buy some video editing software to work on the videos a bit.

1 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Not Worth It Jul 15, 2008
I regret buying this camcorder. Video only looks okay when shot outside in the sun. If you shoot video inside, it looks very grainy. Forget about taking pictures with this camcorder since the resolution is so low. The pictures look awful! I'm buying a different one. Don't waste your money!

1 of 4 found the following review helpful:

Be careful Jul 10, 2008
It was not as new condition as I expected....since it was told that the item was in the shop for display only.....Since no accessories is provided so please add the price and then think whether it is economical or not?????

1 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Very Low Quality and Blurry Jul 08, 2008
Very Low Quality and Blurry. I would compare the quality of this video camera to the standard video camera you get from a cell phone. I am going to try to return this camera.

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SONY DCR-SR42 30GB HDD Handycam Camcorder with 40X Optical Zoom Jun 15, 2008
I bought this unit relying on the reputation of SONY and never thought SONY could offer such a bad quality video on his handycams. It is awful. It is a real lemon ! I won't recommend to anyone to buy this model. Sorry SONY but you just deceived me !