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The camera's MSRP was USD $3000 when it came out. With three 1/3-inch CCDs, a digital sensor resolution of 410,000 pixels, and an analog horizontal resolution of better than 530 lines, its resolution and video clarity were nearly unsurpassed, even by models far past its price point. At the time, Sony had a pattern of releasing "professional ...
The Sony HVR-Z7 and HVR-S270 video cameras, introduced in early 2008, were the first 3 CMOS sensor HDV camcorder that records on tape and/or CF card. In previous prosumer models, Sony released model pairs that shared the same optics and sensors, such as the VX2000/PD150, VX2100/PD170, Z1/FX1, and V1/FX7; where the VX/FX was the consumer version ...
Sony CCD-VX3 (also known as CCD-VX1 in PAL markets and in Japan) is a Hi-8 camcorder noteworthy for being the first handheld camcorder to feature trichroic imaging. It was released to the North American market in 1992 at a street cost of about US$3500.
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5V (2010) Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX400V (2014) with 50X zoom and GPS Sony Cyber-shot HyperXoom 50 Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX300. Note: HX is an abbreviation for HyperXoom. All cameras used CMOS sensors, could zoom optically while filming, and had optical image stabilization. The series included bridge cameras and Compact cameras ...
The Sony TRV900. The Sony DCR-TRV900 was a DV tape camcorder released by Sony in 1998, with an MSRP of USD $2699. It was intended as a high-end consumer camera, more portable and less expensive than the top-of-the-line DCR-VX1000. In 2002, Sony replaced the TRV900 with the somewhat less well-received DCR-TRV950.
DV (from Digital Video) is a family of codecs and tape formats used for storing digital video, launched in 1995 by a consortium of video camera manufacturers led by Sony and Panasonic. It includes the recording or cassette formats DV, MiniDV, HDV, DVCAM, DVCPro, DVCPro50, DVCProHD, Digital8, and Digital-S. DV has been used primarily for video ...
The first Sony camcorder capable of recording to standard 8mm videotape was the Sony CCD-V8, with 6x zoom but only manual focus, released in 1985 with an MSRP of approximately $1,175, [8] ($3,435 in 2024) and a mass of 1.97 kg (4.3 lb). [9] [10] The same year, Sony released the CCD-V8AF which added autofocus. [9]
Handycam is a line of camcorders made by Sony and introduced in 1985. Handycam was first used as the name of the first Video8 camcorder in 1985, replacing Sony's previous line of Betamax-based models of camcorders. The name was intended to emphasize the "handy" palm size nature of the camera, made possible by the then-new miniaturized tape format.