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Sony HDR-SR12 / SR12E Reviews Analysis

Camcorder - High Definition - widescreen - 5.66 Mpix - optical zoom: 12 x - HDD : 120 GB - flash card More product details

Sony HDR-SR12 / SR12E
alaSCORE 95

246 reviews

November, 2009

83 / 100

29 Experts

Product Age

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86 / 100

217 Users

What people think about the Sony HDR-SR12 / SR12E: (BETA!)

We compute this summary by analyzing 246 reviews from across the web.

This is a very good camcorder. Although there were reservations with the focus and steep price, reviewers like the clear video quality, still photos, and large display. If you can live with the focus and price, it's a decent option.

price

2.5

  • drawback is cost
  • hefty price
  • price and use of convenient
  • cost of extra
  • sticker shock
  • price the quality
  • justify the higher price
  • great price
 

user interface

3.5

  • buttons to the right
  • adequate manual controls
  • sufficient manual controls
  • useful flash button
  • good controls
  • extra large touchscreen
  • good touchscreen
  • gui is good
  • small button
  • interface like
  • easy button
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features

4

  • intuitive features
  • lots of features
  • features more consumer friendly
  • many capabilities
  • many features that others do not
  • great features
  • features budding cinematographers will enjoy
  • feature pretty good
  • wonderful features
  • easy to shoot and the functions
  • functions ok easy to work
  • easy handling and the capability
  • great number of features
  • no problems learning the features
  • outstanding with loads of features
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video quality

4

  • great picture quality
  • excellent video
  • top notch performance and image quality
  • hd quality image and quality
  • terrific hd and sd video
  • great video
  • difficult to stop the recording without
  • great video and audio playback
  • video quality is very good
  • picture quality is great
  • very good picture quality
  • images are as sharp
  • excellent picture quality
  • recording which is great
  • videos in extremely poor
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audio quality

4

  • great sound
  • sound was better
  • audio quality is also amazing
  • audio could be better
  • sound quality and easy
  • great video and audio
  • sound was great
  • sound the microphone isn great
  • audio quality was excellent
  • sound quality are fantastic
  • audio interface like
  • audio is weak
  • outstanding sound quality
  • good sound not
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battery life

2.5

  • poor battery life
  • mediocre battery life
  • battery life isn the best
  • outstanding on additionally purchased battery
  • battery life is short
  • battery is pity
  • extra battery
  • battery charges up pretty
  • battery time is outstanding
  • like a monster battery
  • long life battery
  • battery only good
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display

4

  • screen is perfect
  • large touchscreen display
  • touch screen is cool
  • slower touch screen
  • large screen
  • large touchscreen
  • lcd screen it is difficult to
  • large touch lcd display
  • good touchscreen
  • well as touch screen lcd
  • touchscreen lcd is a big
  • better with optional screen
  • lcd is a big
  • touch screen does get dirty
  • screen is truly superb
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low light performance

2

  • problem in very low light
  • badly in low light
  • weak low light performance
  • poor low light performance
  • low light video is surprisingly good
  • better low light
 

capacity

3.5

  • large drive
  • huge hard drive
  • massive hard drive
  • huge storage afforded by hard disk
  • big slab of memory
  • huge gb capacity
  • terrific hd and sd
  • large hard drive
  • capacity without having to clean
  • impressive gb hard drive
  • massive internal hard drive
  • damage the hard drive
  • clean up the drive
  • large hard drive storage
  • destroy its hard drive
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still photos

4

  • quality graphics including taking still photos
  • quality photo
  • average still photos
  • stills are fantastic
  • quality stills
  • stills are superb
  • photos simultaneous is great
  • stills but nice
  • impressive still photos
  • bad the pics are not
  • easy to share my pics
  • photo mode is terrible
  • clear video and stills
  • stills are very impressive
  • quality of the stills
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hd quality

3.5

  • decent hd camcorder i am not
  • hd compatible new
  • decent hd
  • terrific hd
  • best consumer level hd
  • like it's hd quality
  • quality of hd
  • clear hd
  • impressive full specification x hd
  • hd quality is amazing
  • hd highly delighted
  • beautiful in hd
  • neat hd quality
  • very good hd
  • hd high quality
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focus

2

  • autofocus can be slow
  • slow on focusing
  • focusing gives you great
  • slow focus
  • focus and did an excellent
  • sluggish auto focus
 

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