SONY HDR-FX7 / HDR-FX7E

alaTest has collected and analyzed 6 user reviews of SONY HDR-FX7 / HDR-FX7E from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 5.0/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.0/5 for other Camcorders on Amazon.co.uk. Reviews about the viewfinder and portability are on the whole positive. The control panel and durability are also appreciated, whereas some have doubts about the battery.

alaTest has collected and analyzed 84 user reviews of SONY HDR-FX7 / HDR-FX7E from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.0/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.9/5 for other Camcorders on Amazon.com. People really like the zoom and price. The image quality and portability are also appreciated, whereas there are some critical comments about the reliability and battery.

Sony has categorized the HDR-FX7 as a consumer camcorder, despite the very un-consumer MSRP of $3500 and a very prosumer design and manual control suite. Ah, were it only so that people shopped by imposed categories. Instead, of course, they shop by...

Sony's new HDR-FX7 joins the HDR-FX1 atop the company's consumer line of HDV camcorders, and closely resembles the DCR-VX2100. The VX2100, in turn, is derived from the DCR-VX1000 andndash; the first ever MiniDV camcorder, sprung on an analog world in...

The HDV Line is Growing

It doesn't seem like that long ago that high-definition video was too technologically complicated to even consider. Over the past few years, the camcorder industry has not only made the technology readily available to almost any user group, but also...

The FX7 is also a lot lighter than its predecessor by almost 25% but certainly has a more solid heft with many commentators criticising the FX1 because of its ?plasticky feel. The only criticism of the shape of the FX7 is that some videographers who...

The saturation levels are distinctly higher in auto mode than the Canon XH A1. This is the trademark crowd-pleasing color performance. It has the deep blues that run through nearly every Sony consumer camcorder on the market. The FX7 was also able to...

Serious amateur videographers can enjoy superb High Definition picture quality with the first ever HDV camcorder featuring the revolutionary Sony-developed 3ClearVid CMOS Sensor system. Teamed with the camera's superb Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 20x...

If you're an indie filmmaker with a medium-sized budget on your hands, you could do a lot worse than this consumer/professional hybrid camera.