Sony NEXVG10 Full HD Interchangeable Lens Camcorder (Black)

Finally!!! After waiting like a century or so, there's a movement from video department! Those video camera users are already irritated with those SLRs that can shoot video. Please stay with your weapon guys, use it to take still pictures.

I will say that the attempt footage looks great, if there's able light. But if you shoot article with a busy, afresh texture, moire patterns appearance up - actual annoying. Added Sony camcorders in this amount ambit appearance a actual advantageous adjudicator arrangement in areas of blown-out whites, Sony absitively to omit that in this camera - weird.

Another aberrant blank is in the still pictures - yes it takes abundant stills BUT doesn't save them in RAW format, aloof JPEGs. The basal cameras in the NEX band save in RAW. Why would Sony do this? It makes no sense. If this affair attempt in RAW, Sony would accept the hottest camera on the planet.

Controls -you can ascendancy best of the functions manually, but you accept to go through an arrangement of odd agenda functions to do it. I accept that an accessible firmware amend will accomplish this abundant easier, but for now it's aloof a pain. Addition affliction - you accept to leave the adviser aperture accessible all the time to admission the controls - you can about-face the adviser off and aloof attending through the viewfinder (thankfully).

Glass - the included 18-200mm lens is actual nice - acceptable affection bottle with aloof abundant annoyance on the zoom to accumulate it smooth-I don't absence a motor zoom at all. I bought the wide-angle 16mm lens-which I additionally like - and it's a bit added acceptable than in low ablaze than the included lens. I apparently won't get the 18-55mm lens (it seems affectionate of redundant). Sony has promised added lenses in the E-mount line. Lens alteration is fast and easy.

Mac Users

Sony and Apple - what a sad news that is. You can acceptation footage into Final Cut Pro with Log (Lag?) and Transfer, but you won't like how it looks or performs. There are about-face and "wrapper" utilities out there that work, sorta. You're added acceptable off application Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 with files from this camera. I adopt FCP, but files from this camera attending and assignment added acceptable in Premiere Pro. If you alone use FCP, this camera is not for you - until Apple and Sony can achieve their differences and FCP is updated. Windows users accept added options with Sony's own Vegas program, Avid and others.

Sound-The onboard mic is appealing good, and there is a mini jack for an alien microphone (no XLR input) but Sony absitively to omit chiral akin ascendancy - alone automated levels for sound. Once afresh Sony bare article that its added price-class camcorders have. If you accept to use the onboard audio, aggregate sounds OK-until you hit a quiet atom - again the auto accretion pumps up and whatever allowance babble there is hits you at multi-decibels - which agency you'll absorb a lot of time in column bath allowance noise. If you're austere about sound, you'll accept to use an alien complete recorder. (Zoom makes some acceptable ones)

Camera Band Holders - The designers at Sony did not anticipate this through. Absolutely absolutely bad placement. If you accept a $2,000 camera in your hands, you accept to put a close band on it. Sony put the band holds in a abode area your band will awning the almanac button AND baffle with the accessible adviser door. It wouldn't be as big a accord if you didn't accept to accumulate the adviser aperture accessible to admission the controls. I've approved putting both band clips on aloof the advanced holder-which is a little better, but still a pain. Why didn't Sony put the holders on the basal of the camera, area they would not baffle with the controls? A mystery.

No anamnesis agenda is included with this camera. If you adjustment it, you'll charge to shop for cards so you can absolutely use the camera. Shop for the fastest better cards you can afford. Anamnesis is appealing bargain these days, and it's odd that Sony didn't accommodate at atomic a 1 gig card. Not a big deal, but odd.

This assemblage has the abeyant to be a abundant camera for it's price. The annoying menus, the abridgement of RAW book storage, the auto-only audio levels, the moire patterns, no adjudicator arrangement and the band holders accumulate it average. Sony could fix abounding of these problems with firmware updates - and conceivably they will. I'll add to this analysis afterwards the advancement comes out.

If you shop for this camera for planned shoots (like indy films or web videos) and accept an alien audio recorder-you'll like this camera a lot. You can get admirable assignment done on it. The bottle and the big sensor can accord you some of the best-looking footage accessible in a camera in this amount range.

If you're a alive accident ballista - this apparently isn't your camera, yet.

Event shooters would adulation to accept a abundant amalgam video/still camera. No RAW files and the agenda admission to controls aloof won't accomplish it for those who dream of the absolute camera.

One of these days, Sony or Cannon or Nikon or Panasonic or somebody will put it all calm the appropriate way - and shooters will absolutely action with tooth and attach to get their paws on that camera. The blow of the industry will again blitz agnate articles to the market.

C'mon manufacturers! Which of you is accommodating advertise us what we absolutely want?

FIRMWARE UPDATE

All it does is accommodate auto-focus for Sony Alpha-mount lenses. Nothing added than that. I don't own any of those. Sony did accommodate a MAC adaptation of the update, which is nice.

FURTHER THOUGHTS (after a ages with the camera)

Another problem: the covers over the assorted ports (power, USB, etc...) are captivated on with artificial hinges, rather than the elastic "plugs" acclimated on some added Sony camcorders. Not good. I'm absolutely accurate with my cameras, but still managed to rip off the one that covers the ability accumulation port. On my earlier Sony cameras (some are added than 10 years old with abundant usage) this never happened.

Another awe-inspiring "feature"- back you breeze a still, the camera makes a affected SLR bang babble - and it's LOUD. Back you use HDR or one of the added fast multi-shot modes, you get three or added of these loud outbursts out of the camera. There's no way to about-face this complete off or bottomward (I asked one of Sony's online "experts"). You can about-face off the autofocus "beep" (which is almost aural anyway) but not the apparatus gun cacophony of absolutely demography a photo. Sony needs to fix this, the babble serves no purpose. Sometimes the photo/video guy doesn't appetite to be the loudest being in the room.

I absolutely appetite to adulation this camera, I've attempt abounding hours on it now, additional taken 100s of stills. For the best part, it all looks great. I've gotten acclimated to the bad-humored airheaded (sorta) - but I still don't like them. I use an alien complete recorder, but I ambition I didn't accept to sometimes. If it attempt RAW still files and had chiral ascendancy over the audio, I'd shop for addition one. If Sony's basal NEX cameras accustomed best cutting times, I'd shop for one of those today. (The NEX 3 and 5 additionally ache the loud "shutter" problem.)

There are lots of association out there autograph Sony and allurement (pleading, begging) them not to attenuate their cameras. So far it hasn't been too effective. I'm academic that some business ability absitively that barter would be captivated to pay added for an carefully bedridden camera.

TO SONY'S MARKETING DEPARTMENT:

Take a attending at the NEX VG 10 user groups on Vimeo and added sites, additional booty a attending at the comments your own site. I apperceive you've awash a lot of these cameras, but I agreement that you won't be able accumulate them abounding if you aloof fix a few of the firmware issues that your barter are allurement for. You could accept the hottest camera in the world! Isn't that what you want? (Maybe you could absolution a few added e-mount lenses while you're at it?)