"Sony HDR-FX1E PAL HDV Camcorder - Capture Life in Stunning HD!"
Description:
Step into the world of high-definition video recording with the Sony HDR-FX1E PAL HDV Camcorder. This professional-grade camcorder offers unparalleled video quality, making it the perfect companion for your next creative project.
**Key Features:**
1. **Exceptional Video Quality:** With a 12x optical zoom and 22x digital zoom, this camcorder ensures every detail is captured in stunning HD.
2. **User-Friendly Design:** The 3.5-inch screen and sleek black color make it easy to use and transport, ensuring a hassle-free recording experience.
3. **Connectivity Options:** With component and removable media format compatibility (MiniDV/HDV), this camcorder seamlessly integrates into any workflow.
4. **Impressive Features:** Built-in speaker, image stabilization, backlight compensation, color bar, and display brightness control make your recording and playback experience effortless.
5. **Versatile Storage:** This camcorder allows you to record HD footage onto standard DV camera tapes, offering you flexibility and convenience.
6. **Original Accessories:** Comes with the original box, manual, and additional USB-powered battery charger for on-the-go power.
7. **HD Ready:** Capture video in 1080i resolution, providing vivid and detailed imagery.
Whether you're a seasoned videographer or an aspiring filmmaker, the Sony HDR-FX1E PAL HDV Camcorder is designed to meet your needs. Elevate your creative projects with the power of high-definition recording. Get ready to create your masterpiece today!
**Specifications:**
- Three-CCD semi-professional HDV camcorder
- 1/3-inch CCD with 1.12 Mpixels (1.07 Mpixels effective)
- HDV 1080i recording (1,440 x 1,080 at 50 interlaced fields per second)
- 12x optical zoom
- Optical image stabilizer and full-range autofocus
- Multiple connectivity options
- Dimensions: 151(w) x 181(h) x 365(d)mm
- Weight: 2.1kg with battery, lens cap, and tape
**Introduction:**
The Sony HDR-FX1E PAL HDV Camcorder is ushering in a new era of video recording with stunning high-definition quality. Don't miss the opportunity to capture life's moments in unprecedented detail. Get ready to embrace the world of HD recording with this groundbreaking camcorder!
Experience the magic of high-definition video recording with the Sony HDR-FX1E PAL HDV 1080i Video Camcorder. This professional-grade camcorder offers exceptional video quality with a 12x optical zoom and 22x digital zoom, making it perfect for capturing every detail of your next project. The 3.5in screen size and black colour make it easy to use and transport, while the connectivity options of component and removable media format (MiniDV/HDV) allow for easy integration into any workflow.
This Sony Handycam features built-in speaker, image stabilisation, backlight compensation, color bar, display brightness control, and storage type that ensures effortless recording and playback. Whether you're a professional videographer or an amateur filmmaker, this camcorder is sure to meet your needs. So why wait? Get your hands on the Sony HDR-FX1E PAL HDV 1080i Video Camcorder today and start creating your masterpiece!
Comes with box and manual. Please check photos for all the included accessories. Comes with 1 battery, additional batteries are available on eBay at a reasonable price.
It is charged with the supplied AC adapter, however I’ve also included an additional USB powered battery charger to make charging the battery on the go easier.
The major upside for the HDR-FX1 is pretty simple, really. It lets you record video footage in HD quality, up to the 1080i specification, with a maximum resolution of 1440x1080. The HDR-FX1 records using standard DV camera tapes, and in a neat bit of engineering, can record the same length of SD or HD footage onto a tape.
While it's certainly much larger than the average consumer camcorder -- the initial market is more likely to real video enthusiasts and even possibly for more professional use such as on-the-spot news features. The engineering on the HDR-FX1 has taken into consideration the fact that consumers are less likely to tripod mount the camera. It's weighted well in the centre of the camera, so it's less likely to tilt around too much when being held, although its size and weight does make it difficult to hold unless you prop it onto one shoulder.
The HDR-FX1 supports user-defined profiles -- Sony calls this feature "Picture Profile" -- so you don't have to remember the precise details of each setting you used in a particular shoot.
Sony's employing two proprietary technologies in the HDR-FX1, Cinematone Gamma and Cineframe, that allow you to simply give your shot footage a real movie look, changing the frame rates and colour tones to better give you that professional film-like look. In our quick test, we found the HDR-FX1's zoom capabilities to be quite slick, with the 12x optical zoom working smoothly either in hand-held operation or on the optional tripod. There's a pretty chunky array of accessories for the HDR-FX1, although it's not clear how many of the Sony-branded accessories will be available in the Australian market. A number of prominent editing software packages, including those from Apple, Canopus, Ulead and Adobe either support HD format video editing natively, via a plug-in, or will do in future revisions.
Three-CCD semi-professional HDV camcorder, RRP at time of release was £2,399
Features
3 x 1/3in CCD with 1.12 Mpixels (1.07 Mpixels effective); HDV 1,080i recording (1,440 x 1,080 at 50 interlaced fields per second); DV recording; 16:9 DV recording; 16-bit and 12-bit PCM audio recording; f/1.6-2.8 lens with 12x optical zoom (4.5 – 54 mm, 35 mm equivalent 32.5 – 390 mm); optical image stabiliser and full-range autofocus; DV in/out; HDV in/out; S-video in/out; composite AV in/out; component A/V in/out; lens filter diameter, 72mm; 0.3in/252,000-pixel colour LCD viewfinder with dioptre adjuster; 3.5in/251,000-pixel colour LCD fully adjustable view panel.
Controls
Manual focus ring; manual zoom ring; shutter speed steps – 1/3 to 1/10000 sec; manual exposure (f/1.6 - 11); gain control – 0 – 18dB; manual white balance control with two user configurable presets plus daylight and tungsten modes; user-configurable Picture Profile modes; backlight compensation; sharpness setting; colour intensity setting.
Audio
Manual or automatic gain control with automatic limiting; HDV: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 (two channel 48KHz/16-bit); DV: two PCM stereo record modes (two-channel 48KHz/16-bit; four-channel 32KHz/12-bit); built-in stereo microphone; 3.5mm stereo audio mini-jack mic input; powered hot-shoe mount; stereo audio mini-jack headphone out.
Sockets
HDV/DV in/out; S-video in/out; component in/out on proprietary connector; mic in; headphone out; LANC.
Supplied accessories
IR remote control, battery charger/power supply
Dimensions and weight
151(w) x 181(h) x 365(d)mm
2.1kg with battery, lens cap and tape
Introduction
The Sony HDR-FX1E is going to change the world. For decades, we’ve become used to seeing global events at a few hundred lines of resolution – unless we’re lucky enough to be there in person. It’s been a colourful view, but has left a lot to be desired in terms of detail. Now the end is nigh for a format that has been around since the 1950s. High definition has finally arrived in Europe, and Sony’s HDR-FX1E is in the vanguard.