The new Sony handycam is really something that everyone will love after reading lots of camcorder reviews. It has great clarity and is a beautiful camcorder / digital camera to have, i realised this after seeing the great pics taken by this on the Seattle guide book.
The Handycam comes with a quick focus and 20x optical zoom and a harddisk to go along with it. The camera is very easy comfortable to hold and operate. It has got a 1/6in CCD sensor. In addition to this Sony states that the DCR-SR40 has battery life of 125 minutes when it comes to cont. recording, but it is obvious it will be less than this because these figures are taken in ideal conditions.
Digital video is recorded in MPEG-2 format. The handycam comes with a 1/60 sec shutter speed with a 0.3 megapixel effective still resolution.