{"id":372,"date":"2007-09-13T01:16:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T08:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/13\/which-avchd-camcorder-to-buy-panasonic-hdc-sd5-or-sony-hdr-cx7\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T01:16:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T08:16:31","slug":"which-avchd-camcorder-to-buy-panasonic-hdc-sd5-or-sony-hdr-cx7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2007\/09\/13\/which-avchd-camcorder-to-buy-panasonic-hdc-sd5-or-sony-hdr-cx7\/","title":{"rendered":"Which AVCHD Camcorder To Buy? Panasonic HDC-SD5 or Sony HDR-CX7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking about getting an HD Camcorder for a while now. I am now looking at the solid state AVCHD Camcorders from Panasonic and Sony.<\/p>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t decide to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000TVSYMQ\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">Panasonic HDC-SD5<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000PQHMGO\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">Sony HDR-CX7<\/a>. Each has its own strength and weaknesses. I wish that I could have a combination of both. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000TVSYMQ\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">Panasonic HDC-SD5<\/a> uses three (3) CCD sensors, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000PQHMGO\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">Sony HDR-CX7<\/a> uses one (1) CMOS sensor. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000PQHMGO\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">Sony HDR-CX7<\/a> has the NightShot\u00ae Infrared System which I really like and Active Interface Shoe. Based on the specs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000TVSYMQ\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">Panasonic HDC-SD5<\/a> has higher effective pixels, web-cam feature, uses SD-card which is generally cheaper than Sony&#8217;s proprietary Memory Stick PRO Duo\u2122 Media.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I still can&#8217;t make up my mind between the two.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000PQHMGO\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/sony_hdr_cx7.jpg\" alt=\"Sony HDR-CX7 AVCHD Camcorder\" \/><\/a>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000TVSYMQ\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/panasonic_hdc_sd5.jpg\" alt=\"Panasonic HDC-SD5 AVCHD Camcorder\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking about getting an HD Camcorder for a while now. I am now looking at the solid state AVCHD Camcorders from Panasonic and Sony. I still can&#8217;t decide to get Panasonic HDC-SD5 or Sony HDR-CX7. Each has its own strength and weaknesses. I wish that I could have a combination of both. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2007\/09\/13\/which-avchd-camcorder-to-buy-panasonic-hdc-sd5-or-sony-hdr-cx7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Which AVCHD Camcorder To Buy? Panasonic HDC-SD5 or Sony HDR-CX7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[2009,2094,2511,936],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-media","tag-movies","tag-resources","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-60","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}