The SR100’s main competition is likely the JVC Everios G-series of camcorder, with the GZ-MG77 ($799) in the lead. Also, the HC96 had more fine grain noise. The differences between the images were very slight: the SR100 appeared to have a little more sharpening, with larger halos around areas of high contrast, which may be a result of the different compression methods. And like the DVD405, the color performance is nearly identical, hence, very good. The DCR-HC96, Sony’s top MiniDV camcorder, also uses the same chip as the SR100. The SR100 did a much better job with curved lines. The DVD camcorder’s compression left extremely jagged lines along curved lines. The big difference between the SR100 and the DVD405 is the effects of compression. On the whole, the DVD405 of this year had a nearly identical color performance to the SR100, evidence of the fact that they use the same imaging system. There was a noticeable amount of saturation, but not nearly as high as last year’s DVD403.

The provided specs sheet did not indicate how the electronic image stabilization (EIS) affected the pixel count EIS typically lowers the effective pixel count.Īt 3000 lux, the DCR-SR100 had a good, even color balance, and sharpness nearly matching that of MiniDV (which has a much lower compression). This corresponds to 2050 effective video pixels in 4:3 aspect ratio and 2060 effective video pixels in 16:9 aspect ratio. The Sony DCR-SR100 features a single 1/3'Advanced HAD CCD, with 3310K gross pixels.

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