Canon HG10 or Sony SR7/SR8?

Wednesday, 07 November 2007 18:32

I can't review camcorder, a lot of site are doing it in a professional way. Like always I propose You some links that You can use to gain a loooooot of time.

Video Playback

Attention:
you must deinterlace video to have the best experience! I use Elecard Converter Studio to view them (free for viewing, use De interlacing:option best for speed),
You have to deinterlace because computer monitor are not interlaced!
1080i30(60 fields) or 720p60 or 1080p30 have the same raw data rate, while 1080p60 has twice more data!

I've tried

Videolan: crash with AVCHD version 0.8.6c)
Power dvd ultra mixed quality output result, some freeze.
Sony Vegas 8.0 Platinum edition with no success, image not great at all or with artifacts
CoreAVC is the best software decoder out there, install it and any windows application must be able to play AVCHD or H264 (for $8)

Sony SR7 SR8

Reviews

Camcorderinfo Sony HDR-SR7 First Impressions Review
CNET Sony SR8 review
Great review in japanese, automatic translation to English
MagazineVideo SR8 review

Judge Yourself by looking at video samples

http://www.magazine-video.com/tests/20070621165508.m2ts in a train, seing another train moving through the (dirty) windows
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/d...08/ez_shock.mpg Someone riding a bycycle, good for benchmarking optical stabilzation
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/d...08/ezsm_60i.mpg Japanese country side, animals, and river
http://rapidshare.com/files/4662009...Bridge_m2ts.rar Jacques Cartier Bridge with a total duration of 1 minute, the weather was very cloudy and quite gray. by protoncio

By canadiankorean

Indoor clip.http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HBPIVJLZ
Here is a daylight clip. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PPYY9GCH 15Mbps (HD XP) in daylight.
Sorry it's a little wobbly. I have to put the tripod on a box and the box is soft. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NNHNS2DQ
Lowest quality HD capture in daylight. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RX6QQ4AJ
HD XP capture of indoor right by the window (1 foot away from the window). It's around 10am and sunny outside. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X4L2SXTZ
Night video http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K5T0752Y
Candle light video http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7WUQ56XU
Outdoor video (closer shots) Sorry no tripod http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YCAQTO4X

Canon HG10

Reviews

Judge Yourself by looking at video samples

Finding source of video samples
Vuze has some video as well
http://www.vuze.com/search?q=avchd

Side by side table

The best way to compare characteristics is to look at them side by side, below are site that allow this. Ive choose to compare Panasonic SD5, Sony SR7/SR8 and Canon HG10