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Sony Professional HVR-Z1U 3CCD High Definition Camcorder with 12x Optical Zoom, Camcorders, Electronics. HIGH QUALITY video camera, High definition. check the review!

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This particular model is the HVRZ1U. It's a great high definition high quality camera for your videoing purposes. Here's some features. On top its got the LCD screen and it also flips in different sides however you want it. Convenient so that you can hold your camera like this and however you like it. There's all these buttons up here. We have a play pause record all your buttons. LCD brightness volume LCD back light. There's also data display and search bars. You can also record here and you can also turn it on and put your camera on hold and zoom up. Zoom up also here. Here's the microphone left and right. This particular model has two XLR inputs for better microphones if you wanna put however you want in the front. There's a control and tells you how to which when you want it to read. Like if you wanna put the input one out on or off or input two on and off. And in the back right here you can control the sound levels so that you can get better sound. Turn up the mic sound 'coz that goes in thru here. Open this up right here on the side and it just pops up and then it takes many HDVs and records at a 1080i high definition. It has a Carl Zeiss lens. It's great great quality. The zoom it has a zoom. Zoom can be controlled over here and also can be controlled through the regular Handycam stuff I guess like a normal camera. Battery is back here. And then also your like settings light settings and aperture and all that. And you actually do them right here like white balance iris game shutter speed white balance and you control them through here this little knob right here and you have two different white balances like a B and A and then set your pre-sets. Neutral density filters obviously like any other camera. Focus manual and auto. And there's in general inside here there's lots and lots of options that you can choose from like Zebras and like what your Zebra setting is and your time code settings and all those stuff. So Expo guys here's the HDV Visual HDVideo camera recorder. This particular is the HVRZ1U.

Sony Professional HVR-Z1U 3CCD High Definition Camcorder

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Blurring the line between consumer and professional video cameras Sony has created the HVR-Z1U camcorder. It adheres to the HDV Consortiums specifications for 1080i recording on popular DV mini cassettes. This camera represents the widest array of professional features within a new standard of...

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Summary
  • High-definition video camera records in 1080i, 720p, and 720i specification with analog down-converting
  • 16:9 widescreen recording; 4:3 conversion capable
  • Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 12x optical zoom Lens; optical Super SteadyShot System dampens hand jitter and vibration
  • 3CCD camera system; records to conventional DV tape stock
  • Powered by NP-F570 InfoLithium rechargeable battery pack
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