Rotating Grip
Transition from a high to low angle shot
without removing your hand from the
grip or taking your eyes off the action.
Find that most comfortable and stable
shooting position. Get HD footage in
places and angles that bulkier cameras
just won’t allow.
Removable Carrying Handle and
Accessory Shoes
Aluminum die-cast carrying handle for
high action mobility; upgrade camera or
handle shoe with options like MV-E100
microphone.
Lens Hood
Cuts lens flare for superior results.
High Resolution LCD Color
Monitor and Color Viewfinder
With the rotating 3.5” high-resolution 2
Megapixel LCD monitor, you can shoot
at angles and positions where the
viewfinder isn’t comfortable or practical.
The LCD monitor can be viewed
simultaneously with the viewfinder
including comprehensive menu and
camera condition information, especially
convenient when working with others.
The crisp, brilliant color viewfinder has a
diopter to adjust for eyesight.
Power-Linked Operation — with
Tally Lamp, Beep or Melody
Pull out the viewfinder or open the LCD
monitor and the camera automatically
powers up so you’re ready to shoot.
Close — power automatically shuts off
to save energy.
If needed, beep or melody sounds
signify power-on and recording signaled
by the tally lamp as well as a beep or
melody. A shutter sound can indicate still
shooting.
Manual Focus Ring & Zoom Ring
Individual lens barrel rings adjust focus
and zoom. Auto focus and power zoom
can be activated at anytime.
Manual/Auto Shutter Speeds,
Iris, White Balance
Shutter speeds range from 1/15 and the
filmic 1/30, all the way up to 1/1000 sec.
Iris ranges from F1.8 through F22.0 with
an Iris Lock function. In addition to One-
touch manual white balance; Halogen,
Cloudy and Sunny settings finely tune
colors for a more natural look. All are
directly accessible by conveniently
mounted buttons.
Manual Exposure, Back Light
Compensation and Program AE
You have total control over image
exposure in ±10 steps using the
exposure dial, and can instantly
compensate for backlighting via the
BLC button. Program Auto Exposure
includes Sports, Snow, Spotlight and
Twilight to best match the scene.
Full Auto Modes
Just set to cruise control and let the
camera take care of all critical settings.
HD and SD mode MPEG-1
Layer2 16bit Digital Stereo
Audio/DV mode PCM Digital
2 or 4 channel Audio
Record wide dynamic range 48kHz
digital audio with the camera’s stereo
microphone or via external stereo
mini-plug mic input. HD and SD modes
record at 384 kbps. DV mode also
records in 2 channel 48kHz or the
32 kHz 4 channel mode for post audio
dubbing. Wind cut mode helps cut
down wind created noise. Monitor by
stereo headphone jack.
HD/SD/DV/Digital Still 10x Zoom
plus SD/DV Mode Digital 40x/
200x Zoom
Get close with the stabilized all glass 10x
optical zoom, plus for SD and DV mode
40x/200x digital zoom with spline
interpolation to minimize jagged edges.
DV Mode 16:9 Anamorphic Wide
In DV mode, 16:9 “Squeeze wide” uses
a wider view of the CCD (941x483 pixels)
to create a full 16:9 image. This is then fit
into the regular 4:3 NTSC signal to make
a natural electrical anamorphic
“squeezed” image to play back on a
16:9 TV at 60i.
DV Mode 4:3 Digital Wide
Digital Wide’s broader pixel area
(941
646) generates a high-resolution
wide-angle image equivalent to a 0.7x
wide conversion lens. The frame rate is
30psf output on 60i, with increased
sensitivity.
HG Digital Stills
Progressive CCD recording captures
digital stills a frame at a time so they
have less motion blur and 1.5 times the
vertical resolution of conventional field
stills from an interlace camera. The
Optical Image Stabilizer also helps
shooting without blur from camera
motion when zoomed in.
• Four sizes are captured to SD memory
card or MMC MultiMediaCard; VGA
640
480, Panorama 16:9 848
480
or 1280
720, and Megapixel
1280
960 still pictures.
• Progressive pictures captured from
tape to PC also make high quality
stills; HD at 1280
720, SD 848
480.
DV stills; 640
480.
• For Index playback and file viewing,
File information includes Folder, File,
Date made, Image size, Picture quality,
and Protect mode. On screen display
is possible.
• Digital Print Order Format (DPOF)
ready.
P r o P e r f o r m a n c e
i n S t y l e
Aluminum Diecast Body
Whole body frame is strengthened
for the rigors of HD recording.
