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Sony HDR-XR160

Features

Design and ergonomics

Weighing 350g without the battery and with dimensions 59.5 x 66 x 117.5mm, the Sony HDR-XR160 features a 3.0” Clear Photo LCD Plus, providing 230K pixels resolution viewing clarity. Clear Photo LCD Plus, an improved version of Clear Photo LCD, allows users to check the composition and subject colours clearly even outdoors. Clear Photo LCD Plus features the same 230,000-pixel screen resolution as Clear Photo LCD, but offers roughly 1.6 times better colour reproduction. Now users can check the framing and focus more clearly even when shooting in bright outdoor conditions.

This high-quality touchscreen displays your shots with superb detail, high contrast and vibrant, true-to-life colours. The screen’s high contrast and wide viewing angle ensures you can see things clearly, even outdoors in bright daylight.

Activate camera features such as video playback controls, Program AE, effects mode, search and title entry by a simple touch on the generously sized LCD screen. For added protection, the touch panel is specially treated against dirt and unwanted fingerprints.

Lens and Audio-Visual Quality

The Sony G lens features a 30x optical zoom as well as a Digital Zoom of 350x.

Capturing High definition footage of 1920 x 1080 resolution and photos of 3.3 megapixel resolution, the HDR-XR160 features a Dolby Digital 5.1ch audio format.

The Sony G Lens features premium optical construction plus technologies like Extra Low Dispersion (ED) glass to assure brilliantly clear images with good detail, colour and contrast at all focal lengths.

The camcorder’s microphone captures 5.1 channel surround sound that can be enjoyed through your home theatre system’s speakers. It’s a great way of adding an extra dimension of realism to your footage, immersing you in the middle of what’s happening on screen.

The Zoom Microphone increases foreground microphone sensitivity, ensuring that dialogue and other sounds you zoom into are picked up clearly. It’s completely automatic: Just zoom in while you’re shooting and enjoy clear, crisp audio in close-up.

Recording System Features

The 160GB harddrive at the highest resolution high definition setting. A shock absorber protects the Hard Disk Drive from physical damage if the unit is dropped. When the sensor detects a drop (loss of gravity), the power to the hard disk drive is turned off in order to prevent damage. During this time the camera remains powered on and recording video to the built-in buffer. Once the unit has recovered from the drop the buffer is then recorded to the hard disk drive.

Technology Features

The “Exmor R” CMOS sensor uses a back-illuminated design that allows more light to reach the receptors than conventional sensors resulting in less grainy, noisy looking pictures and higher image quality in low light situations. It is also a full HD sensor.

Sony Picture Motion Browser software offers a simple, intuitive way to transfer, sort, and view your video and still images on your compatible PC. In addition, multiple output options let you connect to a DVD burner (sold separately), as well as take advantage of one click upload to a number of popular video and photo sharing sites.

Optical SteadyShot (Active) mode uses a camera shake correction angle 10 x wider than conventional image stabilisers to reduce camera shake. Now you can shoot smoother movie footage while chasing children or strolling around sightseeing.

This video camera supports x.v colour which is a colour standard that is able to capture the wider colour range supported by current full high definition displays, providing more accurate shades of colour and nuance.

Face Detection automatically detects faces and adjusts focus, exposure and colour balance to produce well exposed, sharp and natural looking skin tone.

While shooting your original movie footage, Smile Shutter automatically detects and takes a photograph of your subject if he or she smiles. It’s a great way to record snapshots of smiling friends and family members!

The Highlight Playback feature of your Handycam automatically creates an edited highlights video based on footage you have captured. The system uses Face Index, Smile Shutter, and other criteria to sort through your footage and it is also possible to add music tracks to the video.

A sensitive GPS receiver inside the Handycam tracks your position as you travel, automatically ‘geotagging’ the location of your video clips and photos. After shooting, Map Index shows where each clip was shot as ‘map pins’ on the camcorder’s LCD screen (NB: map coverage may not cover all world regions). Online map views can also be enjoyed on your PC using supplied Picture Motion Browser software.

This Handycam model has a Quick Start-up feature, which allows you to just flip open the LCD and you’re ready to shoot in less than a second.

Dual REC even lets you grab stills without interrupting video recording: just press the shutter button while shooting continues. High-resolution still photos are stored on removable Memory Stick DUO.

Strong backlighting – like sunlight on a beach or snow glare – can produce disappointing results. Background highlights can look bleached out and over-exposed, while your subject in the foreground appears dark and underexposed. D-Range Optimiser intelligently adjusts exposure values for more satisfying, natural results with brightly backlit scenes.

Connectivity

USB 2.0

Included Accessories

AC Adaptor: Yes
Rechargeable Battery Pack: NP-FV50
AV Cable: Yes
Application Software: Picture Motion Browser
USB Cable: Yes

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