#@ Buying Sony DCR-SX40

Buying Sony DCR-SX40 Palm-Sized Camcorder With 60X Optical Zoom (Silver)

The thing that got my attention with this cam was the 60X Optical 2000 Digital Zoom.
I checked it out at the store which had it powered up and knew this was the cam for me, but the real test cooled that inspiration.
To the point.. the Zoom was a major let down. Zoom in on something close and it turns to a blur and the same for distant objects. Now that I think of it I haven't seen the mega pixel rating but it isn't very high.
Not for smaller hands even though this is a very small cam. The touch screen is very nice with very few buttons to get use to. One cool button is marked "EASY". When you open the screen the cam turns on.
and you'll see 5 buttons on the cam case. Push "EASY" and you are ready to record. You can take Videos and stills with ease.
Setting the cam to your computer with easy to follow instruction except that the cam displays "Don't turn off the power, Don't unplug from computer plus one other message" At the end of the install it asks you to restart your computer. When the computer comes back on the message is still on the camera screen leaving you to wonder if you'll damage the camera if you do unplug it. I just unplugged it and all was fine.
The Picture Motion Browser software is stable on my Win XP Pro but not many features for video and still editing. Simple is Better maybe. Videos are Mpeg2 and Pics are Jpg

The last impressive thing is the ability to burn a DVD in the field with a special burner that gets its power from the cam. There are 2 different models I think.

I Rated this as a 3 because of the zoom clarity.
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