Sony HVR-S270E (HVR S270) Camcorder

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Sony HVR-S270 Camcorder

The Sony HVR S270E is a brand new on shoulder HDV camcorder featuring native progressive recording, an interchangeable lens and solid state memory recording.

The universal 1/3" bayonet mount mechanism allows a variety of different lenses to be attached to the HVR-S270 in a quick and easy manner, giving you the flexibility and oportunity to create any shot you are looking for.

The S270 is packed with all the features you would expect from a Sony professional camcorder. It has the ability to record in 25p HDV native progressive and comes with a HD/SD-SDI output.

The S270E further enhances the Sony HDV line up and creates a whole new opportunity for high definition recording. It is ideal for a wide range of applications sucah as documentaries, general TV production, low-budget movies, music videos, IPTV, education, corportae and event videography.

The HVR S270E uses Sony’s new 1/3” CMOS sensor system which is enhanced by the Exmor™ technology. The unique column-parallel analogue to digital conversion technique found in the Exmor technology, produces high quality digital signals with extremely low noise. This system is similar to the imaging technology used in the new Sony PMW-EX1 camcorder. The introduction and combination of the new technologies has made a great improvement in the S270’s low light level capabilities with a sensitivity of 1.5lux.

To compliment the improvements made in the image capability, the HVR-S270E comes equipped with the Enhanced Image Processor™ System to achieve high resolution, high sensitivity, wide dynamic range, and excellent colour reproduction.

The HVR-S270E comes as standard with a high quality Carl Zeiss lens for HD shooting. Stunning resolution and contrast is achieved thanks to the Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar™ T* coating, which suppresses unwanted reflections.

Improvements have also been made to the design of the zoom, focus and iris rings which give the cameraman the option of using this camcorder in a more hands on way than ever before. The new focus ring offers two types of manual focus, plus an auto focus mode that can easily be switched by sliding the focus ring backwards or forwards. The zoom ring has gearwheel mechanism and the focus ring now encircles the lens barrel.

If you would like to attach a 2/3" or 1/2" HD lens to the camera it is possible to do so, by using a standard lens adapter from the lens manufacturer. The camcorder comes with 12-pin lens connectors allowing compatibility with professional ENG lenses.

Another unique feature to the new Sony camcorder is that it offers the option of hybrid recording with the supplied memory recording unit which attaches directly to the back of the unit. The unit directly synchronizes with the recording format and connects via a special shoe connector which inputs and outputs an HDV/DV stream and supplies power to the unit. This allows you to capture HDV 1080i, DVCAM and DV signals direct to a CompactFlash® solid state memory card whilst simultaneously recording to tape. The recording times on an 8 & 16 GB CompactFlash card in HDV, DVCAM and DV format are approximately 36 and 72 minutes respectively.