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The Sony HVR-Z1U professional camcorder shoots brilliant high definition 1080i pictures with jaw-dropping detail, color and clarity, and comes equipped with a Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar® T 12x zoom lens - the same glass and coatings as in Zeiss prime lenses.

Amazon Sales Rank: #2043 in Camera & Photo Color: Black Brand: Sony Model: HVRZ1U Released on: 2004-11-08 Dimensions: 4.41 pounds Display size: 3.5 High-definition video camera records in 1080i, 720p, and 720i specification with analog down-converting 16:9 widescreen recording; 4:3 conversion capable Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 12x optical zoom Lens; optical Super SteadyShot System dampens hand jitter and vibration 3CCD camera system; records to conventional DV tape stock Powered by NP-F570 InfoLithium rechargeable battery pack

With high-definition television sets replacing standard definition, it's time for a high quality HD camera to lead prosumer video into the future. Sony's HVR-Z1U Digital HD video camera recorder is just such a camera. It's the compact and cost-effective machine that bridges the gap between high definition and standard definition video formats. See large image HDV 1080i The HDV 1080i specification features 1080 effective interlaced scanning lines and 1,440 horizontal pixels. Interlaced pictures, which have been common to TV broadcasts from the beginning, alternately display odd and even numbered lines between each screen refresh. The HVR-Z1U can also record at the HDV 720p specification, which features 720 effective progressive scanning lines and 1,280 horizontal pixels. Progressive scanning fills both odd and even numbered lines with each refresh, providing a flicker-free picture. Not yet ready for HD? The HVR-Z1U can convert material from 1080i down to 480i and 576i, and output these digital video signals through its i.LINK interface or as analog signals through component, composite, or S-video connectors. When down-converting these signals, the aspect ratio displayed can be converted from 16:9 to 4:3, and display modes can be selected from squeeze, letterbox or edge crop. Keep an eye on audio levels on the LCD monitor Audio The HVR-Z1U adopts the MPEG-2 compression format, which uses 8-bit digital component recording with a sampling rate of 4:2:0. The camera uses MPEG-1 Audio Layer II audio compression format, allowing for two-channel recording with a sampling frequency of 48 kHz/16-bit. It features a built-in stereo microphone, as well as two XLR audio input connectors for use with professional-grade microphones or external audio sources. Each input level for CH1 and CH2 can be independently adjusted using two audio level dials on the camera body and viewed with an audio level meter on the LCD monitor. 3CCD camera system Originally, camcorders used one CCD--the imaging device that turns light into electronic information--and let the image processing unit decipher the color information from the data. Like today's broadcast video cameras, however, the HVR-Z1U uses a prism to divide incoming light into three beams and uses specially tuned 1/3-inch CCDs to create red, blue, and green composite images, which are assembled into a final image. The result is a more film-like vibrancy and more accurate color representation. Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 12x zoom lens The HVR-Z1U is equipped with a Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* high definition lens with a 12x zoom function. It has the same optical coating as is used on all of the Carl Zeiss prime lenses, which produces sharp, high-contrast images with virtually no chromatic aberration. This lens is designed with a wide viewing angle, and a 35-mm equivalent focal length ranging from 32.5 mm to 390 mm in 16:9 mode, and from 40 mm to 480 mm in 4:3 mode. In order to facilitate zoom control and recording operation during low-angle shooting, an additional zoom lever and a rec start/stop button have been added to the carrying handle. There's also a motorized zoom ring, equipped with stops and barrel marking, located on the lens body. Turning this zoom ring allows for fine adjustments in zoom position settings. Furthermore, the supplied wireless Remote Commander unit can be used for external control. Expanded Focus helps you confirm your manual focus Large, 16:9 widescreen color viewfinder and LCD monitor View your subject through the built-in viewfinder, the swing-out LCD display, or both. The HVR-Z1U features a 0.44-inch type color LCD viewfinder and a 3.5-inch color LCD monitor, both in a 16:9 aspect ratio. You'll save battery time by using just one, but you may want to use one for adjusting focus and the other for monitoring audio levels. When eschewing auto focus for the fine-tuning manual focus, you can double the magnification at the center of the screen, making it easier to confirm focus settings during manual focusing. Also, the camera's "peaking" function can provide sharp outlines on the monitor to help with manual focus. Optical Super SteadyShot system Sony's optical Super SteadyShot System helps remove the slight hand jitter and vibration that is often the bane of video production. Sensors inside the camera detect horizontal and vertical movements and the camera can counteract those movements by adjusting the lens mechanism on the fly. This is superior to digital anti-shake systems that counteract image shake by trimming off edges of the frame. The Hollywood look The HVR-Z1U has features that can make your videos look more like they were shot on film. Cinematone Gamma allows operators to quickly setup and load a gamma curve with similar contrast characteristics to a film gamma curve. The Cineframe feature allows movement to be reproduced at 24 frames per second--the speed of film--as opposed to video's 30 frames per second standard. The Color Extraction function can retain up to two desired colors of monitored pictures in the screen by designating color hue, saturation and range, while making the other colors black and white. The Color Revision function can change the hue of only the colors designated by Color Extraction, while retaining the hue of the other colors, thus making it possible to change the color of something you've already shot. No new tape stock The HVR-Z1U is compatible with conventional DV tape stock, but Sony recommends the use of DigitalMaster PHDVM-63DM tape, with its dual layer of magnetic material, which delivers higher RF output, lower noise, 95% fewer errors and 60% fewer dropouts compared to regular DV tape. More camera features ·Six Assign buttons -- get quick access to a variety of settings   ·Time Code Preset -- fill in any timecode starting value ·Shot Transition -- creates smooth automatic transitions between scenes   ·Color Bar -- Two types ·Status Check -- displays camera setting menus for audio, output signal, assign button and exposure lever functions and hours meter on the LCD monitor   ·Zebra -- displays a striped pattern in the LCD monitor and viewfinder across highlight areas, helping manual exposure settings ·Quick REC -- shortens the record interval from stop mode.   ·Personal Menu -- allows operators to customize the setting menu ·AE Override -- manually change exposure settings during the AE mode via an iris dial   ·Hyper Gain -- automatically boost the gain level up to approximately +36 dB ·Black Stretch -- allows more contrast to be seen in dark parts of the picture without affecting mid-tones   ·Picture Profile -- easily call up customized picture-quality settings to the camera to suit various shooting conditions What's in the box HVR-Z1U, AC-VQ850 AC adaptor/charger, power cord, connecting cord, lens hood, large eyecup, RMT-841 wireless Remote Commander unit, A/V connecting cable, component video cable, shoe adaptor, NP-F570 InfoLithium rechargeable battery pack, two AA-size (R6) batteries, cleaning cassette, shoulder strap, and operating instructions.

Customer reviews more useful for 127 119 people found the following review helpful. Half HD - too good to be true by the HVR-Z1U DH Griesinger seems too good to be true. It is. He promises a camera with full HD resolution and outstanding features at an affordable price. In many ways offers. The video quality is better than the JVC HDV camera. Unlike the JVC, the camera offers full manual control and a joy to shoot with professionally. Alas - for someone who expects and needs full HD resolution, Sony is a disappointment. Point the camera with a resolution chart while viewing the output in a high resolution monitor (or a computer after rendering to 1080i or 1080p) quickly shows that the horizontal resolution is about 1200 lines of vertical resolution and is just over 500. The number of pixels is about twice that of standard video not four times, as we might hope. The 1200 lines of horizontal resolution is very good - almost the same as 720p. But the vertical resolution is not very good at all A little 'tells the story of mathematics. Sony advertizes 1.1 million pixels for each sensor and 1440 horizontal lines. 1.1M/1440 gives a maximum of 770 vertical lines, not 1080 as promised. The resolution measured in horizontal and vertical is much lower. An extensive web search revealed that the sensor has 1080 vertical lines, but only about 990 horizontal lines. To get something closer to 1440 horizontal lines of the green sensor is offset by half a pixel, and image processing is used to give a maximum resolution of 1440 can be a black and white. The problem is that the edges of contrast more than 900 horizontal lines is rather poor. To make matters worse, (or to degrade the vertical resolution to match the horizontal), vertical lines in the sensor are read in pairs, so that each field is a mixture of two adjacent lines. This gives the contrast even in poor vertically or horizontally. It can use the Unsharp Mask in Sony Vegas (or other editors) to improve the contrast threshold using the maximum effect with minimum radius of instrument Sony - setting the radius slider to 0.001 pixels. You must make sharpening operation with a property setting 1440x1080. Slightly better results can be achieved by placing a mask to add in series with the first through mid-September. One of the main problems is interlaced. Most editors (and most screens) deinterlace in media, which reduces the maximum vertical resolution of 540 lines. You can add Mike Crash excellent Deinterlace to mask sharpening, and removing this limitation. Deinterlacing Intelligent Crash Vegas can be downloaded for free - with patience and perseverance. Sharpening and deinterlacing the image is very processor intensive. I took a good part of a week to conduct a two-hour movie on a 3 GHz Pentium 4 But the results can be surprising. With its emphasis on the Sony camera can give you a result that is close to a professional HD camera I give WMV9 instead of MPEG2 - remember to keep the properties in 1440x1080. After rendering is completed, you can re-render to 720p, adding an additional bit of sharpening to compensate for the re-interpolation. For best results, always use a shutter speed of 60 frames / sec or more. I had mixed results with the Steady Shot option. Keep using the camera as still as possible and try not to video in order to earn more than necessary. Bottom line - this camera produces video that is much better than standard video, and significantly better than DV. But it would be awfully nice to have a camera that delivered the advertised resolution and did so with a flat frequency response video. 8 of 8 customers found this review helpful. HDV workhorse By Martin Lisius I used my Sony HVR-Z1U HDV camcorder in some very extreme conditions, and it comes through on a regular basis I shot Hurricane Katrina video footage during the storm (the storm stock) within