Sony CCD-TRV-138 Hi-8 Camcorder with 2.5" Swivel LCD Screen. 20x Optical Zoom, 990x Digital Zoom

Sony's CCD-TRV138 Handycam Camcorder offers outstanding Hi8 Video and Hi-Fi sound recording at an affordable price. Capture Hi8 quality video and Hi-Fi sound with the compact, affordable, and easy-to-use CCD-TRV138 Handycam camcorder. It features a CCD imager with 320Kgross pixels that provides detail and image precision along with exceptional analog video performance. Digital Zoom Interpolation creates clearer, sharper images for extreme digital zooming.

Along with a variety of features to capture quality images and sound, the CCD-TRV138 lets you customize your personal videos with such tools as Fader Effects, Picture Effects, and Titling. Choose from a variety of modes to add creative fades, pictorial exposures, and titles. Get creative and enhance your home movies with professional looking video effects.

It records outstanding video quality up to 400 lines of horizontal resolution with Hi-Fi sound on affordable 8mm and Hi8 tapes. The 1/6" CCD Imager with 200K (effective) pixels provides great detail and clarity along with exceptional analog video performance. The 20X Optical zoom helps to bring the action close up from far away. In addition the 990X Digital Zoom Interpolation means that extreme digital zooming is clearer, with less distortion than previous types of digital zooms.

The 2.5" SwivelScreen LCD Display provides excellent viewing clarity with improved resolution. The high resolution 123K pixel LCD screen rotates up to 270 degrees for multiple viewing angles providing sharp, detailed images for monitoring or playback. Charge the battery at anytime because unlike Nickel Cadmium batteries, Sony's rechargeable Lithium Ion batteries are not subjected to a life shorteningmemory effect. Sony's exclusive AccuPower meter displays the battery time remaining in minutes, in either the viewfinder or on the LCD screen.

Connect the Handycam camcorder to a VCR to effortlessly make VHS copies of your home videos. The camcorder can control up to 59 brands of VCRs. With Sony's NightShot Infrared System you can capture natural looking video, even when shooting in low light.

Record subjects up to 10 feet away using the built-in infrared system, without the monochrome color common with earlier low-light recording systems. Program AE modes make recording easy even when filming in challenging situations. Choose from Portrait, Beach & Ski, Sports Lesson, Landscape, Spotlight or Sunset & Moon modes.

Get creative when recording or playing back your videos with Sony's Picture Effect Modes. Effects available in Camera mode: Negative Art, Sepia, Monotone, Solarize, Slim, Stretch, Pastel and Mosaic.

Enhance your personal videos by adding professional looking fader effects. Choose from Black, Mosaic, White, Monotone and Stripe. Brighten your video, and reduce shadows when shooting in low-light situations. The LED light uses considerably less power than bulb-based light systems, with the same light output.