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Sony HDR-CX110 High Definition Handycam Camcorder | 
| Brand: Sony
Category: Photography
List Price: $479.00
Buy New: $349.00
as of 9/9/2010 20:17 MDT details
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Seller: MicroComputerCenterInc
Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 200
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Optical Zoom: 25
Battery: 1 Rechargeable Li-ion
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 6 x 4.1
MPN: HDR-CX110
Model: HDR-CX110
UPC: 027242788763
EAN: 0027242788763
ASIN: B0031RGKZI
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 1920x1080 Full HD Recording w/3MP still image | | • | Memory Stick PRO Duo media slot | | • | 1/4" back-illuminated "Exmor R" CMOS sensor | | • | 1080/60p playback via HDMI and compatible HDTV | | • | 30mm CZ Vario Sonnar T* with 25x Optical zoom |
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Product Description
Capture stunning 1920 x 1080 Full HD video2 and 3.0 megapixel images with the ultra-compact HDR-CX110, which features an Exmor R CMOS sensor for superior low-light performance and a Carl Zeiss Vario Sonnar T* 25x optical zoom lens to help bring you closer to the action. - 1920x1080 high definition video recording: 1920 x1080 high definition resolution lets you record your memories in exceptional Sony Full High Definition quality2.
- 3 megapixel still image capture: 3 megapixel still image capture lets you take high resolution digital photos.
- 1/4-inch back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS sensor : A 1/4-inch Exmor R CMOS image sensor delivers bright, vivid, spectacularly detailed video footage, as well as 3 megapixel still images. In addition, Exmor R technology captures images with high resolution and high sensitivity, while the advanced Sony BIONZ image processor improves camera response time and screens out noise to help ensure that the signal from each pixel is as pure as possible.
- Back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS sensor : Experience stunning low-light sensitivity with improved image clarity and drastically reduced grain with the back-illuminated Exmor R sensor. Designed for compact cameras and camcorders, the Exmor R sensor relocates the photo diodes above the support circuitry, maximizing the light gathering area per pixel so you can shoot with better results in lower lighting conditions. Approx. 2x increase in sensitivity compared to Sony's existing front-illuminated CMOS sensors at F2.0.
- 2x faster Quick AF : With the new and improved autofocus (AF) system, Quick AF, the focusing speed is twice as fast compared to previous models. Whether in bright daylight or in dimly lit environment, Quick AF ensures fast, accurate, and consistent focus lock, enabling users to shoot in a wide range of scenes without missing any important moment. Especially when shooting night scenes where conventional AF might struggle to focus, thanks to the much improved AF algor
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 Wow... Just WOW... February 20, 2010
John S. Dean (Sturtevant, WI United States)
218 out of 225 found this review helpful
I was looking to replace my JVC Everio, that had a 60GB hard drive in it. I loved the convenience of the hard drive, since that replaced an older unit I had that used the small tape cartridges. But the prices for the HD capable units are more than I was willing to pay for a camcorder, so looked at the units that just used memory sticks.
I have the Sony DSC-TX1 digital camera and was blown away by its optical quality, and it even took 720p movies which were just insanely clearer than my 1 year old JVC camcorder. That was when I realized I needed to lose the JVC. Almost all the movies I do are of my son, now 6 years old, so the better the quality the happier I would be. Too many artifacts with the low definition JVC, panning was just ugly ugly ugly, and while it had a great response in low light, the picture quality was just not what I wanted considering how good everything else with my TV and still camera.
I was initially going to get the 100 version of this, since it was so insanely cheap for a 1080 capable camcorder, but the bad low light capability put me off, since most of what I record is in my house. And the very low numbers for optical zoom also concerned me. But amazon conveniently puts little links under the initial product listing if there's a new version, so I saw the 110 and the price was good. I did some digging on Sony's site, somewhat confused that the cheap little 100 had 16GB built in but the higher end had none, but when I saw the rest of the specs in comparison, I felt it was a very good unit to give a test run with. My local brick and mortars didn't have it in stock, so I ordered it from Amazon and got the Saturday delivery early on Saturday, plenty of time to charge it up and try it out.
I left all settings at default except for the quality setting. That was easy to find, and the touchscreen on this unit makes it very easy to operate. As with my sony still camera, it has a "user" screen too where you can pin the six most used functions to save you from having to navigate into submenus. I love this feature, as it made my touchscreen still camera so simple and quick to use.
So I did four test movies, all of the same thing (my 6 year old playing with a huge Geotrax set), at all four of the options for 1080p resolution. The camera is smaller than I had expected, very light and fits well in the hand. The only real buttons to deal with in normal operation are the zoom and the start/stop recording, which are placed well despite the small size of the unit. If you want to grab a still as well, which you can do while recording, that button is on top right behind the zoom, so it's easy to get at. So use is great, no problems.
As I said, touch screen menu is great, so changing settings as I went was a piece of cake.
Started with the highest 24Mbps, then the next down (I think it was 17Mbps), then the "default" one they start you out at, 9Mbps, then the lowest. When I was done, I pulled the card out (nice, quick access on the bottom with a great, sturdy, hinged door). Went into my macbook pro just fine, and i started playback.
I have a 13" macbook pro, the aluminum unibody, that I got about four months ago. So new core2 duo processor, nvidia 9400 graphics... And it could not play the highest or second highest quality movies raw... Which told me that they were going to be great on my windows 7 media center. The third and fourth files played, but since the laptop is not a 1080 screen, it didn't look that good. So I went ahead and pulled the memory card out of the laptop, put it in my Dell Zino that runs my beautiful 46" Samsung HDTV, and played them all.
One thing I hadn't realized is that when it creates the files, it creates them in a native bluray playback format, the folder structure and all. So that should make it easy for people who will want to burn to Bluray.
Anyway, on the media center, i played the highest quality one first. And my jaw dropped, and I nearly had to go buy some adult diapers. WOW. That was all I could say or think. WOW. It was just outstanding, WAY better than I had expected. And it's not like I'm so unfamiliar with HD that even bad HD was impressive to me - my first HDTV was purchased back in 1999, a huge 60" Mitsubishi diamond line TV. So I've been using HD for over 10 years now. And this just knocked my socks off.
I had nearly no artifacting or blurring or anything with the movement of the camera as I've come to expect from camcorders. Even the blurring was minimal. And the shots of things were just crystal clear. I had a 1080p version of the movie BOLT running on the TV as he played with his geotrax, so I zoomed in so that filled the viewfinder, and recorded some of the movie. During playback at that scene, I couldn't even tell it wasn't the original playing back, that it was a recording of the TV from earlier, it was that clear.
I was indoors, in Wisconsin on a winter day with snow falling, so there was no direct sunlight, just all clouds. Only one window's curtains open, and no lights turned on inside. And the clarity and lighting was excellent. Every bit I could hope for.
So I tried the next down quality, and it blew me away. As did the third and then the lowest quality. All looked stunning. When I got down to the lowest, I could see some difference between it and the highest, but for what I was, and will be, shooting (my son), I think I'll end up using the default third lowest setting because it was still jaw droppingly good on my HDTV.
I got the 16GB card since the 32GB card was still in the three digit price range, and i have a habit of transferring the files to my computer as soon as I'm done shooting anyway. And at the third quality setting, the default 9Mbps one, a 25 minute clip used just 1.9GB, so I should get about 3 1/2 hours on this card at this rate, so I'll not have to worry about running out of media for my normal use.
The display is crisp and clear, widescreen format, and not cluttered when recording. Response to touch was very good, only once when selecting something from a bottom of a menu did I have to touch it twice, since the first didn't register. Didn't take any pressure to get it to see my pressing.
The still picture while shooting video worked easily enough, but they're not great quality, so it won't replace your digital camera if you have a good one. But it may give you a decent still shot of something you would have missed otherwise...
All in all, this is waaaayyyyy better than I had expected, and more than I had even hoped for. 100% satisfied with the unit.
I can't attest to battery usage yet, since I have only had it for five hours, and only ran about 40 or 45 minutes of recording through it so far. In a few days I'll pop back in here and edit this with the results I've seen with regards to the battery life, since this is evidently the first review of this model.
Excellent quality..Nice breakthrough March 19, 2010
Murali Swaminathan
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
Video quality on this camcorder is fantastic. I did many research and debated between Canon and Sony. I didn't like the model CX100 because of the fact that the poor quality in low light condition. I almost decided to buy canon HF200. I went to bestbuy to buy this canon. I saw this new model CX110 and bestbuy representative explained the features. This CX-110 is a major upgrade from CX100. New sensor Emos "R" and 25X optical zoom were the best one. I then decided to buy this Sony new model instead of Canon.
I am very happy about my decision. I took shots in day light and also in low night, the video is excellent. Amazon.com is very good and i got it within 4 days after placing the order.
I read the review comment of the person who rated 2 for this camcorder. I am surprised to note the reason for the low rating. Even though the specification of this camcorder clearly says no internal memory, i don't understand why people buy and rate low for their mistake.
Bottomline, my prediction is Sony will break-through and out beat other competitor in 2010 in camcorder.
First Video Camera Purchase May 17, 2010
mam219
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I wanted to buy a video camera because I was going on my honeymoon in 2 weeks in Hawaii and I wanted to capture the memories and scenery. After reading the reviews and nailing down the criteria for my first video camera puchase, I was swayed by what I saw for the CX110. It was somewhat more expensive than I wished, but had HD (which was a must), and had good reviews to back up the money. I am glad I listened to the user reviews.
1. It is very compact. I can fit it easily in one hand and into a cargo shorts pocket. It also fits nicely in my wife's purse if she wanted to carry it.
2. It has a touch screen LCD which is very intuitive. I did not read the instructions (well, maybe a little) and mostly figured everything out on my own. The menu system is easy to navigate once you understand the basics. If it is too complicated, just point and hit record and the default "auto" feature automatically adjust focus and light sensitivity (for evening, daytime, nighttime scenes) for amazing quality. Anyone can use this camera! Even my technophob wife had no problem.
3. Has no built in memory, which is why it is cheaper than the CX150 (has 16 gigs built on it) but I knew that going in. I got a Kingston 32 gig Class 4 memory and have about an hour worth of footage on it from the honeymoon and still have plenty of room. I am not sure exactly much, but i would guess I used about only 15% - 20% of all of my memory. It has 4 different recoridng qualitys, 24 MB per second (best), 19 MbPS, 12MbPS (default setting), and 9 MbPS. I used the second highest quality (since I had lots of memory) and got amazing picture! I used the component cables and am waiting for my HDMI cable for some real digital hd, but the component picture blew me away!
4. The optical zoom is scary good. I creeped on people across our condo and could see how many beer cans they had on their kitchen table.
5. The audio quality is great. You can hear wind on lots of our footage but thats because our fault. Hearing the crashing waves and the birds in the background are a nice treat to our video.
6. I am very happy with my purchase. HD is the way to go and this is a powerful cheap camera. This is all you need to get amazing picture for little cost. Sony is a quality brand and you know if your paying 500 for something, you might as well get something thats quality. Plus, having HD and blue-ray quality video makes it future proof.
** I purchased mine off ebay for $400 dollars and got my 32mb for about $90. I know amazon sells it for 500 but perhaps some shopping would save you some bucks.
Wonderful Little Camera June 13, 2010
L. Olmos (los angeles)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I wasn't going to write a review, but after re-reading some of the prior reviews and one of them giving 1 star for a poor user interface, I feel compelled to offset the reviewer's 1 star with my 5 stars.
I've had the cx110 for over a week and love it and see no reason for the prior reviewer's 1 star rating. The cx110 is small and light weight and comes with us to all family events. It is is a huge improvement over my old Hi8 camera purchased 8 years ago. Now, I don't feel like a dork pulling out a brick of an antiquated video camera to preserve memories.
I found a great deal on a 8gb SDHC class 6 card at frys dot com via slickdeals dot com. I'm recording at the 2nd highest level quality (FH) and the 8gb provides ~50-60 mins of recording time. The highest quality setting provides ~40-50 mins of recording time.
The quality of recorded video/audio is excellent for the size and price of the camera. It handles low light pretty well in my opinion. Natural light colors come through great.
My plan is to take the .mts files and burn them to a DVD and play them back on my samsung c5500 blue ray player. I guess this has something to with AVCHD or something which I'm still trying to figure out. The bad thing now, is my older Dell struggles to playback the HD video.
The camera's provided PMB software looks okay, as it imports the mts files and will categorize them by date/time into a calendar view which is nice. It also includes a trimmer/editor in which you can cut out the beginning and/or end of a video clip and save it as a new file. The PMB program will also take the files you select and make a dvd out of it.
I know there are other editing/authoring programs out there, but this one is free and included with the camera. Note: if your computer has choppy/stuttering play back issues like mine, check out a free player called Splash (lite). Play back is a lot is smoother but still not the best (which I attribute to my specs: older P4 dual core and older 256mb Ati video card).
Supplied with the cx110 is a usb cable, composite cable for SD tv viewing and component cable for HD tv viewing. I bought a mini HDMI cable on amazon for ~$5, and have yet to use it. I also bought a 30mm UV filter to protect the lens for ~$6 on amazon as well... Small investment to protect a $400+ camera.
In summary, if you're thinking about this camera go for it. I'm glad I pulled the trigger on this camera, as our baby coming in Dec 2010, will have plenty of HD memories to look back on when he/she gets older. Not to mention my current sons 7 and 4 yrs, love watching videos of themselves, and the cx110 is perfect as we can watch videos instantly, as many times as we want. And also delete unneeded videos when ever we want. DO IT!
Send me a comment if you have any questions.
A great little camcorder -- 4 1/2 stars March 26, 2010
R. Platt (Gettysburg, PA United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My 8-year old Sony mini-DV Camcorder kicked the bucket just as my 14 month son started to utter his first words. I needed to get a new camcorder fast, and based largely on the first Amazon review I purchased the CX110. The image quality and size are just perfect. I have only two complaints and they are minor. First, there is no way to quickly delete a video clip easily right after recording (you have to wade through menus). Secondly, it outputs .m2ts files instead of more common formats like .mp4. Even after installing the right codecs my computer still won't generate thumbnails for my video clips. Now I'm nitpicking -- this is a great camcorder.
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