Another Sony handycam to emerge today is the DCR-SR60 which is also a hard drive based camcorder. The 30 GB DCR-SR60 camcorder includes a 2.7-inch wide hybrid LCD display with start, stop and zoom buttons keeping in mind the user’s convenience. This camcorder has a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens which is capable of producing up to 12x optical zoom and the active interface shoe lets one attach accessories like light, microphone with complete ease.

The Sony DCR-SR60 apart from an one-mega pixel CCD imager also is capable of impressive recording times. This particular camcorder can record up to 20 hours of footage in long play mode and more than seven hours in high quality mode. This one too sports all the protection necessary to care for your precious camcorder including physical shock absorbers, G-sensor™ shock protection and video stream buffering. So now you don’t have to worry about damaging the handycam and can concentrate all your energies in shooting!

The Sony DCR-SR60 comes with the Sony Handycam Station which Station lets you connect to any source like a PC or a TV. The Station also includes the One Touch DVD Burn button which automatically burns video to a DVD via a PC and flawlessly works with the new VRD-MC3 and VRD-VC30 DVDirect recorder models. The 30GB DCR-SR60 camcorder will be available in September for about $700.