Sony sr12 manual

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Ask a question. Julie, 1 comment 0. How deep can I submerge the speaker and for how long? Connie Turner, Answer this question Send. Anne, No comments 0. Related product manuals. On the top panel, slightly forward of the Quick On button is the Photo button and, in front of it, the zoom rocker. The electronic viewfinder can be raised through an angle of 45 degrees. Diopter adjustment is provided via a lever on the underside.

Viewing quality is good, although the finder itself is rather small and cramped with a hard surround that is uncomfortable if you wear glasses. Like an increasing number of HDD camcorders, SD12 also has a drop sensor, which detects any rapid motion that could be due to gravity and automatically parks the recording heads to minimise damage to the HDD.

The SR12 is supplied with a Handycam Station dock, which gives users the simplest way to connect it to mains power, a TV set or a personal computer. Also supplied with the SR12 is a compact remote control that can be used for both shooting and playback.

The ClearVid sensor design rotates the photosite grid by 45 degrees to increase its ability to record detail. The objective is to produce brighter, more detailed images. We found the diagram below on a Sony website and reproduce it here to show how Exmor works. Bionz processors use hardware-based Large Scale Integrated LSI circuitry to boost camera response times and minimise noise before the raw data is converted for viewing.

They also support some new technologies that have become standard in compact digicams see below as well as lowering power consumption. Hybrid recording technology enables users to record to either the HDD or a Memory Stick Duo Pro memory card, which slips in behind a lift-up cover in the side panel.

The default setting for both video and stills is recording to the HDD which, in the SR12, will hold up to 14 hours and 40 minutes of AVCHD video at the highest quality or 29 hours and 40 minutes of high-quality standard definition SD video. A similar process is required to record video clips on the memory card. Shooting Modes Like most consumer cameras, the SD12 has an Easy button for point-and-shoot picture taking. Pressing this button automates nearly all recording and playback settings, regardless of whether you shoot video or stills.

It also makes the fonts and icons on the touch screen slightly larger so the few controls you actually can access are easier to see. Shooting mode choices provided both Easy and normal modes. In Easy mode, video recording defaults to SP speed. Focusing, exposure and white balance are non-adjustable and Face Detection is engaged by default. Switching off the Easy mode lets you access the full range of quality settings for video and still picture recording, operate the Manual button and engage the slow-motion recording mode.

Pressing the Home button calls up a screen with two pages covering seven settings. The Movie Settings menu has four pages covering the following functions: Page 1: Rec. Colour, Guideframe, Zebra. Most of these settings are self-explanatory and many are duplicated in the Photo Settings menu. Functions that may be new to stills photographers include X. Colour and Zebra. Colour is an HD video-specific setting that allows the camera to record a wider colour gamut than the default setting.

However, it should only be used when you have an X. Colour-compliant TV set to playback the video clip on as recordings can produce incorrect colours on a non-compliant screen.

The Zebra setting is provided for both movie and stills capture and used as a brightness indicator. Two pre-sets are provided: 70 and In use, diagonal stripes are superimposed on areas of the scene that are at the pre-set level, although the pattern is not recorded. The zebra pattern provides a quick guide to exposure levels and can be particularly handy when making brightness adjustments.

The Camera menu is accessed by pressing an icon on the lower right corner of the LCD screen. This displays a strip of icons along the lower edge of the LCD. Tele Macro will be popular with flower and nature photographers. When selected, the lens zooms to the tele position and the maximum aperture is set to blur background details.

In this mode, you can focus to within 47 cm of the subject. The Spot Meter is linked with the touch screen. Simply touch the point on the screen where you want the focus and exposure measurements to be made.

Where a scene selection changes colour balance, automatic white balance is cancelled. Only two fades are offered: white and black. And the only Digital Effect is Old Movie.

The Outdoor setting has to cover lighting as diverse as daylight, overcast and misty conditions, sunrise and sunset and night lighting including neon signs and fireworks. The Indoor lighting must cope with fluorescent, incandescent and halogen lamps as well as video lights and sodium lamps. In both cases, the colour range is very wide and performance is better with some types than others.

When in doubt, the One Push system lets you measure ambient light colour. You simply fill the screen with a white object under the lighting you wish to measure and touch the relevant button. The colour balance is stored in memory and applied to subsequent shots. In addition to the Candle scene selection, the SD12 provides three controls for shooting in dim lighting. Colour Slow Shutter slows the shutter speed and appears to boost the sensor gain to ensure coloured subjects retain as much brightness as possible in low light levels.

This mode is the only video mode to provide even a modicum of shutter speed control. For near-dark conditions, switching on the Night Shot function causes the camera to emit a burst of infrared light.

This produces almost monochrome video but provides a fairly clear video of the subject. Both apply to still and video recordings — and both are, by default, automatic.

The Face Detection system is similar to those found in digicams and can pick up a maximum of eight human faces in a frame but may not identify people wearing hats or sunglasses or faces in full or half profile.

When flash is used, the flash exposure will also be taken into account. Unlike other Handycam models with face detection, the SD12 allocates more pixels to the detected face during the AVCHD encoding process to ensure optimal results. A white frame outlines each face within the detection range which appeared in our user tests to be from about 50 cm to three metres from the lens and the SD12 automatically adjusts focus, exposure and colour balance to provide the best average result for the faces detected in the shot.

A face icon will flash when video is being recorded to show the detected faces are stored in the Face Index. You can switch off the frame if it upsets your composition by selecting No Frames in the menu. The Face Detection function can also be switched off, if required. Video Recording When shooting video you can choose from four high definition HD levels and three standard definition SD settings. The table below shows the resolutions and typical recording times for each recording mode. Digital zoom is only available when recording video and there are two settings: 24x and x.

These figures refer to total magnification, including the 12x optical zoom. An indicator on the screen shows the transition from optical to digital zooming. Audio tracks are recorded in Dolby Digital 5. Selecting Photo mode on the touch screen gives you more options and is the only way to access the highest and lowest resolution settings.

All still images are recorded as JPEGs, regardless of how they are captured and users have no control over compression levels. Five still image sizes are supported, with typical file sizes shown in the table below. Although superficially the SD12 may appear to be the ideal dual-purpose video-plus-stills camera, some features are less than ideal for still photography.

For starters, the image sensor in both models is significantly smaller than the average digicam. When you record still images with a aspect ratio, we estimate the imaging area is approximately 4. The top still resolution is x pixels can only be achieved through interpolation, since the sensor only uses 5. If you swap to aspect ratio, the image is cropped, leaving you with a x pixel 7. We suspect this setting will be the most popular with users, particularly if they own widescreen TV sets.

The most frustrating aspect of shooting stills with the SR12 is using the menu system, which requires a lot of toggling to locate and modify the few adjustable camera settings. You have to touch the OK icon to lock in any changes. Unfortunately, many adjustments a stills photographer relies upon are either non-adjustable or only adjustable with low precision. Of the two focus settings auto and manual the manual mode has only two options: Portrait and Landscape.

Spot AF and metering functions are provided but both rely on the photographer touching a spot on the screen — and you have no idea what exposure parameters have been set. Page 3: Face Detection, Conversion Lens. Most of the above settings are self-explanatory. The Dual Setting allows users to take still shots while recording movies by simply pressing the Photo button.