Sony HDR-XR260VE reviews: Hard disk drive storage Full HD camcorder

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Sony HDR-XR260VE reviews: Hard disk drive storage Full HD camcorder reviews

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This camcorder is a good all rounder.

£399 – £562 at 2 retailers out of 409 retailers checked

7.6 out of 10 based on 13 reviews.

Sony HDR-XR260VE: Horizontally held, 30x optical zoom camcorder using SDXC card. See full product description

Ease of use	8.1
Image quality	9.0
Features	6.6
Sound quality	7.4
Battery life	7.2
Weight	8.2
Value for money	6.9
Overall rating	7.6

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Martin, Bristol Experienced amateur

Score 7.0/10

Good points:: Good camera with high quality images, light and easy to use with extra functions for the more advanced user.
Bad points:: There is no simple way to delete images and videos other than goijng through the in-camera editing process, which is extremely long winded. There seems no way to "delete all" or "un-protect all" so that images can be deleted on a PC..or even perhaps in the "Play Memories" application.

The "Play memories" application itself I guess may be useful for someone who has no other photo or video playing/editing software, but other than that situation my impression is that it is particlarly useless and no extra functions but does add a layer of unnecessary complexity.

It should alos be made much easier to select phot storage on the memory card separately, rather than go through various menu layers to elect for all captured images to be either on the HDD or memory card, not either/or.

Ease of use	8.0
Image quality	8.0
Battery life	5.0
Weight	8.0
Value for money	7.0
Overall rating	7.0

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Confirmed purchase: 31 May 2012

graham, Ruislip, Middlesex Keen amateur

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: Small, light, very good image quality.
Bad points:: Hand strap too small, and no saftey strap supplied or available from Sony. Zoom with top button takes getting used to, and the touch screen zoom, you can hit the stop by mistake and not notice till too late !. Not that easy/quick to delete what you dont want.

Ease of use	8.0
Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	8.0
Battery life	7.0
Weight	9.0
Value for money	8.0
Overall rating	8.0

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Confirmed purchase: 21 Aug 2012

hasmukh, Mombasa Keen amateur

Score 5.0/10

Good points:: HD Features
Bad points:: Burning to DVD. It creates black borders making TV / DVD viewing smaller.

Ease of use	8.0
Image quality	9.0
Features	5.0
Sound quality	5.0
Battery life	3.0
Weight	7.0
Value for money	2.0
Overall rating	5.0

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Confirmed purchase: 19 Dec 2012

samuel, ballymena Keen amateur

Score 7.0/10

Good points:: Reviewer left no comment
Bad points:: problems downloading the clips through play memories. keeps saying usb has disconected

Ease of use	8.0
Image quality	8.0
Features	8.0
Sound quality	8.0
Battery life	7.0
Weight	7.0
Value for money	7.0
Overall rating	7.0

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Confirmed purchase: 16 Dec 2012

phil, Frome somerset Just point and shoot

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: Easy to use , mac compatible , image quality excellent , excellent memory
Bad points:: None so far

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	10.0
Battery life	8.0
Weight	10.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 15 Jun 2012

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Product Features

Resolution quality	Full HD
Resolution quality can be standard definition (SD), High Defintion (HD) or Full High Definition (HD). SD camcorders will have 480 horizontal lines of resolution whereas HD camcorders can have up to 1080. The more lines of resolution you have, the sharper your video will look. Full HD refers to camcorders that record in 1920 × 1080 resolution.
3D	No

Optical zoom ratio	30
The amount by which the camera optics (lens) can bring the subject closer.
Media format	Hard disk drive
This is the type of storage that your digital camera or camcorder uses to save images to. The main types of card media format: Compact Flash Micro SD MMC (Multi Media Card) SD Card (Secure Digital) SDHC (Secure Disk High Capacity)
Connections	USB

Connections	HDMI

Type of memory card	Memory Stick Pro

Type of memory card	SDXC

Shape of camcorder	Horizontally held

Digital zoom ratio	350
Not to be confused with optical zoom, digital zoom enlarges a portion of the image thus simulating optical zoom. In doing so, some image quality is lost.
Type of image stabiliser	Optical Image Stabiliser
If a photo is taken at a slow shutter speed, or at a long focal length, the effects of ‘hand shake’ will be amplified. Some cameras come with built-in image stabilisation which is designed to act against this to produce sharper images. It’s great for low light shots without a tripod, like at a gig.
Widescreen recording	Yes
Resolution (Megapixels)	8.9

Hard disk capacity (Gigabytes)	160
Hard Disk capacity is measured in GBs which stands for Gigabytes. A gigabyte is 1000 MB or megabytes. The more GB you have the more info like photos and music you can store.
Shortest shutter speed (Fractions of a second)	1/1
This is the fastest speed at which the camera can take a photo. Faster shutter speeds really freeze the action and are great for sports photography.
Weight (g)	355
The weight of the product in grams.
Screen size (Inches)	3
Screen size is measured diagonally from corner to corner.
Maximum aperture telephoto	3.4
Maximum aperture wide	1.8

Lowest focal length (Millimetres)	36.5

Highest focal length (Millimetres)	1095

Type of chip	CMOS

Release date	2012-02-21
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.

Also known as: SONY Handycam HDR-XR260VE, HDR-XR260

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Manufacturer's Description

Full HD camcorder with very high image quality and long record time

Up to 65hr Full HD on 160GB HDD, 30x optical zoom/29.8mm wide angle, 8.9MP photo, 7.5cm/3" LCD, iAUTO

High quality low-light shooting with Exmor R
Extra-long shooting time
Wide angle lens gets more into the picture

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