Compact, SD recording, good price, swivel touchscreen controls, excellent build, very light, crystal clear sound, smooth and silent optical zoom motor, good battery life, SteadyShot, Face Detection, Tele Macro, Zoom mic
Image quality, mirror-like touchscreen, no optical viewfinder, touchscreen controls may be difficult to use, awkwardly placed USB port, no headphone jack
We have a brand new Sony camcorder - DCR-SR68E - for review today and this one has SD recording capabilities for DVD quality video.
Sony, one of the companies at the forefront of manufacturing digital cameras, also manufacturers a large range of camcorders; non-HD and HD. The DCR-SR68E camcorder comes with touchscreen controls, which are typical of camcorders from Sony. This particular model comes with an 80 GB hard drive with drop sensor, so you will never really run out of recording space. And in the unlikely scenario of you actually running out of recording space, there is an MS Pro Duo card slot and an SD card slot for more capacity. It features powerful 60x optical zoom, which is the highest we have ever got and also 2000x digital zoom. We shall see in our review how well this camcorder performs and whether what is shown on paper, does indeed hold true.
Bundle
- Sony DCR-SR68E
- Wrist strap (attached)
- Li-Ion Battery
- 3 instruction manuals
- Software quick start guide
- Software disk
- Power cable and adapter
- USB cable
- Component cable
- AV cable
The Sony DCR-SR68E comes with the necessary bundle and you will not need to purchase anything extra. The DCR-SR68E has better compatibility with most PCs, as it has a USB 2.0 interface rather than FireWire, which, though faster, is a lot less common. The AV cable and Composite cable let you connect the camcorder to a TV to view videos directly on TV from the camcorder.
Unfortunately, this camcorder does not come with a wireless controller, which would have come handy. A wireless controller lets you control the camera remotely without even touching it and is useful, especially when you are among the subjects being shot.
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