Which is better for a camcorder: Canon or Sony?

Which camcorder is better-Canon FS11 vs Sony DCR-SR45?

• After checking my budget and different cameras, it has come down to these two. Which one would you choose and why?

• Answer:

  For you, we would recommend the Canon. http://motionpicturecentral.com/book/camcorder-basics With the Canon FS11, you can keep using more and larger Flash memory cards to extend capacity, and memory cards are not bad when it comes to use as a storage medium. Plus, the Canon consumer camcorders come with some very impressive features when compared to Sony including the best optical stabilization in the business and a high quality focus that finds focus much faster than Sony. The Canon also has a longer optical zoom and a mic in port in case you need to use external microphones. The Sony DCR-SR45 is not a bad camera. It is similar features to the Canon you chose. Our cameras are currently Sony. http://motionpicturecentral.com/book/your-camcorder-needs The Sony DCR-SR has an larger internal hard drive, and you can't expand the recording media by recording video directly to memory stick like you can on the Canon. The memory sticks on this camera are used for saving photos as they are taken or moving the movies from hard drive to computer. Also, when the hard drive is full, you have to delete video, move the video to memory sticks, or find a computer to move the video to. This Sony camera does have two distinct advantages over the Canon, but only if you use the features often. If you need to get a recording in a completely dark area, you can you the Nightshot Plus system to illuminate the room with invisible infrared (IR) beams, and the IR image will not be green. Sony has figured out how to colorirze it. If you take a lot of video of people looking at the camera, Sony has also added a face detection system so that regardless of the situation, everyone's faces should appear as clear as possible. There are other features your may want to compare, but these are usually the most important to most people. http://motionpicturecentral.com/book/camcorder-features * If your computer does not have more than 320gb of free space that you can dedicate to video, you will probably need to get an external hard drive or add another hard drive into your desktop. We recommend a hard drive that is at least 500gb in size, and external USB 500gb models are available for $100. Depending on how often you record video and how long you want to keep them, you can probably get by with storing the video on the memory cards in the beginning, but you will eventually reach a point that you will need to move to the hard drive. Be sure that you get enough hard drive to not only hold all your recorded video, but also have enough space to save your edited movies also.