Sony produces professional, consumer, and prosumercamcorders.

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The camcorders have 1/4-inch CMOS sensors, optical SteadyShot image stabilization, and an improved built-in speaker system with an S-Master digital amplifier. As is the case on a number of new Sony camcorders in 2011, the HDR-PJ50V, HDR-PJ30V, and HDR-PJ10 can record 1080/60p video with a new original compression format. Sony HDR-PJ350 Pdf User Manuals. View online or download Sony HDR-PJ350 Operating Manual. Find support information for HDR-PJ10. What do 60i(50i) and 60p(50p) in the recording format AVCHD 60i/60p(50i/50p) stand for?

Standard definition models[edit]

Sony DCR-VX1000[edit]

The VX1000, introduced in 1995, was the first digital consumer MiniDV camcorder. It is also widely used by professional skateboarding videographers. Century Optics designed the Mk1 fisheye lens just for the VX1000. The VX1000 excels at daytime colors.

Sony DCR-TRV900/DSR-PD100[edit]

These models gained wide-scale popularity when paired with Century Optics Mk1 or Mk2.

Sony DCR-VX2000 & Sony DSR-PD150[edit]

The VX2000/PD150 sister models improved on the VX1000 in low light sensitivity and added LCD screen. Both models have 1/3' CCD sensors while the PD150 has XLR audio inputs and independent iris and gain controls.

Sony DCR-TRV950/Sony DSR-PDX10[edit]

Sony DCR-VX2100 & Sony DSR-PD170[edit]

The VX2100/PD170 improved on the VX2000/PD150 models with low light sensitivity of 1 lux, improved LCD screen, and 24 iris increments from 12.

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High definition models[edit]

Sony HDR-HC1[edit]

The Sony HDR-HC1, introduced in mid-2005 (MSRP $1999 US), was the first HDVCMOS camcorder to support 1080i. The CMOS sensor has a resolution of 1920x1440 for digital still pictures and captures video at 1440x1080 interlaced. The camera supports digital image stabilization.

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The camcorder can convert captured HDV data to DV data for editing using non-linear editing systems which do not support HDV or for creating edits which are viewable on non-HDTVtelevision sets.

The HVR-A1 is the prosumer version of the HDR-HC1, having additional manual controls and XLR ports.

Sony HDR-HC5[edit]

The Sony HDR-HC5, introduced in May 2007 (MSRP $1099 US), was the third DV tape HDV CMOS camcorder to support 1080i. The 1/3' CMOS sensor has a resolution of 2MP and interlaced 4MP for digital still pictures and captures video at 1440x1080 interlaced. Digital photos can be stored on a Sony Memory Stick. It requires a minimum of 2Lux.

Sony HDR-HC7[edit]

The Sony HDR-HC7, introduced in 2008 (MSRP $1399 US), was another DV tape HDV CMOS camcorder to support 1080i. The 1/2.9 CMOS sensor has a resolution of 3MP and interlaced 6.1MP for digital still pictures and captures video at 1440x1080 interlaced.

The camera includes a manual focus wheel, mic and headphone jacks, and a slightly larger imaging sensor, producing 3200K gross pixels versus the HC5' 2100K. The HC7 also sports Sony's Super SteadyShot Optical Image Stabilization System.

In December 2007, Sony released the HD1000, the shouldermount version of the HC7. Its advantage include much more stable off-tripod footage; full-size zoom control; custom ring to manually control focusing, exposure (iris and gain), zoom, or shutter speed; support for a large video light on its front coldshoe; and wireless audio.

Sony HDR-FX1[edit]

Sony HDR-FX1

The Sony HDR-FX1, introduced in late 2004, was the first HDV 3 CCD camcorder to support 1080i (1440 X 1080 resolution with 4:2:0 color sampling). The Sony HVR-Z1U is the 'professional' version of this camera with additional features such as balanced XLR audio inputs, DVCAM recording, and extended DSP capabilities (i.e. cine/gamma controls).

The HDR-FX1 includes three 1/3-inch 16:9 1.12 Megapixel gross CCDs. Each CCD measures 960 x 1080 pixels. It includes a 12x optical Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* lens, a 3.5-inch LCD screen, a zoom ring, focus ring, and an iris / aperture ring.

Cineframe[edit]

The FX1 offers Cineframe shooting modes at 30 and 24 frames per second. The camera uses an interlaced image but extracts progressive images from individual fields by doubling them. The 30fps and 24fps do not offer the same resolution as true progressive scanning. The 24fps Cineframe shooting mode does not offer the same resolution, or motion cadence as true 24fps progressive scanning.

Known Flaw[edit]

When the audio mode of HDR-FX1/HDR-FX1E camcorder is switched to the 16-bit setting (in DV mode) and the unit is then turned off, the unit resets to the default 12-bit setting, though the LCD indicator of the unit continues to display the 16-bit audio setting.

Sony HDR-FX7[edit]

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The Sony HDR-FX7, was introduced in September 2006. The new camcorder is the first camcorder below $3,000 to offer full 1080 HD resolution with a three-chip sensor.

Resolution: Sony claims 'full' 1080 HD
Sensor: changed to 3 x 1/4' ClearVid CMOS
Light sensitivity: worse by 33% (4lux)
Zoom: increased to 20x optical zoom (30x digital)
Lens/filter: decreased to 62mm/bayonet mount
Optical Image Stabilizator (OIS, SteadyShot 4 settings)
Video out: included HDMI
Weight: reduced to 1.6 kg (3.52 lb.)

The company claims that HDR-FX7 has much improved resolution (full 1080 HD) under good lighting. In low-light situations, Sony FX1 will still produce better results.

Sony HDR-SR1/HDR-SR5/HDR-SR7[edit]

The Sony HDR-SR1, introduced in late 2006, was Sony's first high definitionhard disk drive based camcorder. It launched with a 30 gigabyte internal drive and - along with the Sony HDR-UX1 - is the first camcorder that records high definition video in AVCHD format. In June 2007, Sony released two new AVCHD format HD Hard Disk camcorders, a 40GB (HDR-SR5) and 60GB model (HDR-SR7), both of which add the ability to record Dolby Digital 5.1.

Sony HDR-CX7[edit]

In June 2007, Sony released the HDR-CX7, the first Sony AVCHD camcorder to record video to a memory card. The product comes bundled with a 4GB Memory Stick Duo that holds 30 mins of HD video.

Sony HDR-CX7 weighs 15 ounces with the supplied battery and can record nearly one hour of full HD 1080 video on an 8-GB memory. It can record longer videos at lower resolution or quality.

This handycam features a crash-proof recording system.^{[citation needed]} It is equipped with a 6.1-megapixel CMOS image sensor and a 5.4-54mm/F1.8-2.9 zoom lens.

It saves files with a resolution of 1440 * 1080i. The video format specifies a rectangular pixel shape. Most players render this as 1920 * 1080 format after adjusting for the rectangular pixels.

For this camera, the maximum recording rate is 15 Mbit/s.

Sony HDR-CX12[edit]