Test Drive: Sony HVR-HD1000U

Test Drive: Sony HVR-HD1000U: "Smooth Slow Motion
I should mention that the HD1000 shares many components of Sony’s top-end consumer HDV camcorder—the HDR-HC7, in a larger, shoulder-mount form factor. While this raises some eyebrows on the component side, I’m OK on the feature side. I remember when “professional” camcorders didn’t have silly LCD panels or even color viewfinders, not to mention still-image-capture capabilities. Anyway, one interesting feature that worked its way up from the consumer side is Smooth Slow Motion recording, which lets you shoot 3 seconds of video at 400-percent speed, which the HD1000 stores in a buffer, then spreads over 12 seconds of video, slowing down the video to 25 percent of original speed."