Travel in France and Paris with Sony XR350

Hi folks, it has been quite a while since I last posted. I have been using the Sony camcorder on and off but not in any great extend. I used it a fair bit in May during my daughter's marriage registration in Perth. However, I was able to use the Sony on a daily basis recently when I went on a 14 days Cosmos Tour of France where I also did a bit more of Paris on my own which added another 6 days to the trip.

Both myself and the Sony survived the journey and I am recalling my trip in my new travel blog, Cosmos Tour of France and Paris holiday, where new posts are still being added. With 160GB of hard disk space available on the Sony, I was really trigger happy with my video shooting and I ended up with about 100GB of data which is about 12 hours worth of videos. The headache starts when I got home to do the sorting and editing. It is a bit too much to handle.

What I then did was just to capture relevant frames from my videos progressively as I posted the story of my travels in my Blog. You can see the photos there and I have also posted some short clips on YouTube which are linked in my Blog and I have also linked them here as well below. These are just trimmed from the original videos that I have taken. For all these, I have used the supplied software, PMB. I only wish that it has a merge function for joining videos. Anyway, hope you will enjoy these videos and the extracted photos in my Travel Blog.

More photos and videos will be added as my Travel Blog progresses. Comments and enquiries are welcome.

Ronald Kwok

Sample photos from XR350

A reader asked for some sample photos from the Sony XR350 so below are samples that I took this afternoon. Nothing spectacular, as it is normal with camcorders. Also the sky was overcast so it doesn't help.

This one is taken at wide angle.



The same scene taken at mid-zoom or thereabouts.

This is taken at full zoom.

My hobby is macro photos so I just cannot resist when this moth came around. This is taken with normal macro at wide angle.

And this is taken at zoom macro, i.e. at full zoom so it may have fallen outside the focus range.


The original photos were taken at 5.3M size but reduced to 2M for uploading in Blogger. Only the iAuto (full auto) mode was used in all the photos.

I use the XR350 primarily for videos and if I need photos, I'll just capture them from the videos. Below are some examples of photos that were extracted from the videos using the supplied software, Picture Motion Browser (PMB). These are the better examples as the quality will depend on minimal motion in the videos.

All the photos are unedited and taken straight from the videos. Don't think they will win any prizes but good for the memories, though. Cheers

Ronald Kwok