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I am very happy with my Sony FDR-700 but would like another video camera for on the move (usually walking) usage. So I am mainly looking for exceptional video stabilisation. The other must have is clean HDMI output so I can use the camera remotely connected with an HDMI cable to my PC in the...

Go get your coat, it's time to leave <LOL>

Thanks for the replies, Sony confirmed the sensor cannot suffer image retention, so that's one less concern. I added a sacrificial male / female HDMI cable, one a few inches long to save wear on the camera's HDMI socket with daily plugging and unplugging. I have also decided to only use manual...

Camera is a Sony AX700 on a mains PSU without a battery fitted. I use it to record bird table comings and goings to my PC via an HDMI cable. I have started to wonder if the extended usage can wear the image receptor out prematurely? The camera itself shows no sign of heating up, it's outside...

Ahh, right, my mistake, lovely looking birds, I see wagtails on the wing and they looked bigger and more slender. I appreciate the replies, thank you both very much and all the best for Christmas and the New Year.

I am into amateur television, we make videos and transmit them up to a geostationary satellite and other sad old folk like myself receive them and critique them. On my bird table today I saw a mini invasion of a bird species I think is Wagtail, but what type I am not sure. If you have a few...

Thank you Gav. appreciated!

Apologies Andrew, I somehow missed your reply, for which I thank you, it's a very useful link!

Shropshire, England, UK, is this a juvenile robin that keeps visiting the bird table (the image is a still taken from a video of visitors to the table). Thanks! Best regards, Chris.

Thanks for the replies so far, so are these cables not meant for outdoor usage at all?? I agree that broadband fibre optic cable that brings the internet to lucky people's homes is needfully robust and designed to be either buried or in tension over longish overhead runs. Ideally I guess I...

Looking to buy a 75 or 100 metre fibre optic HDMI cable to allow me to feed HDMI video and audio from a Sony FDR-AX700 camcorder to OBS on my PC in the house. Prices vary wildly for similar (alleged) specifications. I'd like pretty much loss free 4K at 60FPS. Does anyone have experience of...

Thank you Phil V, much appreciated, I'll have a fiddle with the (myriad of) settings but as you say, for the usage it has at the moment it may be time wasted. I am trying to find my way around all the setting options for when I give the thing a more hands on usage than having it on a wall mount...

I messed up the still camera image, or mistook what the different ways of attaching mean to a new poster, rules wise! Hopefully this works, with my apologies.

Newbie alert, plus I hope video camera questions come under the remit of this / these forums? I have a Sony FDR-AX700 "Handycam" set up outside on a wall mount. It feeds to the house over an HDMI cable, but I think these facts are irrelevant to my issue. On the left of the captured still (that...