A 25x visual zoom and 450x digital zoom will bring your shots closer, and Sony SteadyShot idea stabilization technology will help to keep shakes and wobbles out of your video. For audio, the DCR-TRV520 offers 16-bit PCM digital stereo with 12-bit dubbing. If you enter to shoot in the 16:9 widescreen ratio, this is also an option. To compose your films, you can use either the model eyepiece viewfinder or a 3.5-inch swivel color LCD flaunt.
With Sony's LaserLink feature, playback can be a snap--you just aim the DCR-TRV520 at the LaserLink recipient on select Sony TVs from up to 16 feet away, press play, and fancy your videos directly on your TV--without wires or cassette adapters.
If you're planning to digitally polish your videos on your computer, the Sony includes an industry standard IEEE 1394 seaport (also known as iLink and FireWire) for image transfer and a Control-L (LANC) interface for pull to editing equipment.
Sony's Super NightShot infrared system lets you lay footage in two modes. In standard NightShot mode, the camera uses nearby visible and infrared light to illuminate the subject. With Super NightShot, an infrared LED on the front of the camera acts like an infrared limelight: to the naked eye, it just looks like a standard red LED, but it produces enough infrared be uncovered to effectively illuminate the area in front of the camera.
The camera includes numerous again features, including 14 picture effects and a five-mode audio-video fader, end search (which intuitively forwards your tape to the end of the last footage shot), edit search, seven-fashion program auto exposure, pass-through analog AV inputs, and an insightful shoe for accessories.
Using the USB streaming feature, the camcorder can also role as a Webcam. In addition to this, video footage can be downloaded directly to a PC via a USB refuge. This material can then be edited on your PC using the supplied software. Once edited, your work of art can be shared with the whole world via the Internet.
For those wanting to retain the high trait that the digital camcorder offers, the DCR-TRV25 offers iLink (IEEE 1394 in and out), giving the owner the ability to edit raw footage on their computer via a FireWire capture card and then achieve the edited footage back onto the DCR-TRV25. The camera also features analogue video in and 14-bit DXP timer processing for greatly improved rendition of highlights and shadow detail.
The DCR-TRV25 includes the gifts to record straight to MemoryStick. As with the DCR-TRV340, you can create MPEG pictures. Your recording time is now only limited by the size of MemoryStick.
Add to these already impressive features a 2.5-inch 123,000 pixel LCD colander, manual focus, 120x digital zoom, playback zoom and Wonderful NightShot mode for filming in very low light, and you've got yourself a very impressive camcorder.
This video was recorded with a Sony DCR-TRV 520 camera on Digital 8 tape recording, on June 27, 2009 at 12:10 PM hours take, heading North from the ...