Thanks,

This is straight out of the camera with no CC. I shot it at 1080p60 and then edited in a 720p24 timeline so I could try out the slow motion. I’m really liking this little camera!

http://www.vimeo.com/25151569

Original files look fantastic, wish I could figure out a better setting for rendering to do them justice.

Thanks for looking! This camera is a great deal!

I like the ‘action IS’ although you still have to make smooth movements to avoid jerky stuff in your video. How many stops do you turn the EV down (in normal conditions) to make it look good? One or two? It’s a pity the HX9 doesn’t remember your last settings…

I’m not a big fan of ‘auto-whitening’. But the HX9 gives you the possibility to turn ‘ISO’ on and choose you’re own colour-temperature, ‘daylight’ seems to fine in most normal conditions.

This is the first pocket HD camcorder / camera combined that does a brilliant job in both fields. I also have the HX5 which is amazing but the HX9 adds better microphone positioning ( sound is still its weakest point ) and the amazing image stabilisation.

I have a number of high end digital camcorders and cameras and when I feel like going out and actually enjoying myself at the same time as recording the event it is very difficult not to just take the HX9 knowing I’ll get great photos and video which everyone will think is excellent.

Not sure why they are letting their standards slip, maybe complacency from continued strong sales and saving the best for big updates every 3 years?

bitrate is basically quantity of memory that codec needs to put one second of video. bitrate depends very much on which codec, which settings you use and what kind of picture you encode. DVD has very high bitrate, but nobody uses DVDs now, because modern processors using modern algorythm can pac the same quality picture with less memory needed.

I’m not a fan of Sony, at all, but if their new processor and codec modification can do better with less bitrate, it’s quite possible and quite plausible.

please before writing such long meaningless letter, check some data first.

cheers

Glad you like the HX9V so much and do your own testing and comparison.
Reading through all the comments her some info.
The V in the Sony cameras stands for GPS. In countries where GPS is not allowed they sell the models like HX5 etc instead of HX5V.
Last as I checked Canon video they still used an extremely space wasting audio codec what gobbles up a good part of the bandwith.
I also tested the Olympus SZ 30MR (link at my blog) and it is a pretty awful camera, but you can compare my findings for yourself.

I also did some pixel level comparison with the Sony HX9V vs Panasonic ZS10 / TZ20 vs Canon SX220 / SX230 vs Nikon D7000 vs Sony A55 and NEX-5 vs Panasonic GH2 at my blog and the results were quite eye opening about actual resolution and quality captured.

As to Canon vs Sony, I come from an A60 and S2IS and with these cameras Cannon was very leading in features and quality but since then there are mostly baby steps in evolution so this is why I ended up to replace these cameras with Sony models (HX1 and HX5V) and blog the max info out of these versatile pieces of engineering to fully understand the potential.

As to the need of manual video mode, in all the extreme situation videos I captured with the HX5 there was never a situation where when watching the result I was thinking that any manual option would have resulted in a better clip except for white balance indoors but that has improved drastically in the HX9V.

The sensor is also a bit noisier than the Canon S95 and G12 judging buy the RAW stills.