Sony DCR-TRV50 MiniDV is the upgrade to the popular DCR-TRV30. The camcorder is a standard-form-factor, with many nice features and still good quality. The Sony DCR-TRV50 has a 1 / 4 inch 1.5 megapixel HAD CCD. The effective video 970K pixels, while still 1390K, but even more about the performance later. The DCR-TRV50 has a 10x optical, 120x digital zoom while the horizontal resolution is rated at 530 lines, the starter for the MiniDV format. An upgrade of the DCR-TRV50 on the DCR-TRV30 is the addition of a touch-panel LCD screen. The LCD display is 3.5 inch and 246K pixels. The camcorder also has a color viewfinder. When you first hear the touch-screen function that you? Probably re-think? With frivolous, but it really quite useful. With the touch-screen LCD to set the focus and exposure. If you have an area that is under or over exposed, or an area that you want everything in focus what you have to do is to touch on the camcorder automatically adjusts. This is a great mediator between automatic and manual control. It gives the novice user a way to deal with the camcorder controls, which can be very daunting. Sharp was the first company to secure an LCD touch-screen, but I think that Sony really has this option and flown with him. It? Sat really great feature, especially for the less experienced user camcorders.From his professional Carl Zeiss lens of the 3.5-inch LCD screen, and everything in between, the DCR-TRV50 screams quality. It is clearly Sony's top consumer model, and also the effort worthwhile.

Imaging SystemThe creation of a camcorder is the imaging system: the lens and CCD. The lens is a Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar. While less expensive models have a larger zoom, the truth is that the higher the optical zoom, the greater the chance that any lens shortcomings in the video you shoot. A 10x zoom is a good compromise in terms of image quality and zoom length. In addition, Super Steady Shot technology protects your video suffer from the common illness known as a handshake, an inevitable consequence of high zoom levels. Super Steady Shot image stabilization means. There are different types of image stabilization, but the Super Steady Shot diversity moves the internal mechanisms of camcorders to compensate for the camera movements. Finally, the lens on the TRV50 also has a manual focus ring - a step better and more immediate than the clunky interface most commonly used in digital camcorder with manual focus.

The CCD-TRV50 in the resolution enough to 1360 x 1020 digital stills on the included 8 MB Memory Stick - on a 1.38-megapixel image. This resolution is currently tops in the digital camcorder world (resolution of the digital camcorders have not risen nearly as fast as the digital cameras), and is good for prints up to 6 of 9 cm. As far as video is concerned, Sony demands of the high-resolution CCD translated into a video resolution of approximately 530 horizontal lines.