Price range: £687.00
What is it: Hard drive-based, high-definition camcorder
What we think: Both its image quality and performance are top notch
Compare the Sony Handycam HDR-SR11
Sony Handycam HDR-SR11 compared to other hard drive camcorders
![]() Sony Handycam HDR-SR11 |
![]() JVC Everio GZ-MC500 |
![]() Sony Handycam HDR-SR8 |
![]() JVC Everio GZ-MC200 |
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| Review date | 23 Apr 08 | 22 Jul 05 | 3 Jul 07 | 17 May 05 |
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| Review summary | If you're in the market for a hard-drive-based high-definition camcorder, you won't go wrong with this Sony. It delivers top notch performance and image quality Read full review |
Not only does it look like a professional camcorder, but the MC500's performance matches its appearance. Instead of the more common single CCD, the MC500 uses three separate CCDs to capture a far better clarity of colour. The biggest benefit of the MC500, however, is the size of the thing -- it's tiny Read full review |
The Sony HDR-SR8 and HDR-SR7, which has a smaller 60GB hard drive, are the Rolls Royce of movie cameras -- feeling like a million dollars, shooting like they're heading for Hollywood and handling like a dream. Tech-heads will need to look elsewhere, but everyone else will luxuriate in the effortlessly impressive high-definition movies – and probably struggle to fill that large hard drive Read full review |
It's largely thanks to the massive success of the iPod that microdrives have become so affordable. It was about time some great DV camcorders turned up with hard disks tucked away in their bellies, so we were pleased to find the JVC MC-200 is such a small and elegant use of this technology. Although you'll need to buy additional microdrives to store more than 60 minutes of footage on location, hard disk really is the future of DV Read full review |
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