Sony DCR-DVD205 Handycam DVD Camcorder, 12x Optical, 800x Digital Zoom, Carl Zeiss Lens, 2.7" Wide Touch panel LCD Screen

Watch your home movies come to life like never before with the DCR-DVD205 DVD Handycam camcorder from Sony. Enjoy the extra large 2.7" wide LCD screen, which swivels and adjusts to optimize the viewing angle for easy recording. Not only can you record digital video, but you can also capture quality digital still images at up to 1 Megapixel.

Fully equipped with a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens, you can capture professional quality digital video and images with enhanced color and clarity. The 12x optical zoom brings the action close with minimized distortion. The Super NightShot Plus infrared system lets you record in low light conditions. As with all of Sony's DVD Handycam camcorders, you can conveniently record directly to DVD.

The 1/5.5" Advanced HAD CCD imager with 690K effective video pixels provides excellent detail and clarity, for exceptional digital video (up to 520 lines of resolution) and still image performance. Realize greatlooking digital still images with 1,000K effective pixels.

The 2.7" Wide (16:9) LCD screen 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, and the widescreen format makes shooting in 16:9 mode and composing shots even easier.

The DVD recording format delivers digital picture and sound quality comparable to that of MiniDV, but on DVD. Playback of the DVDs couldn't be simpler. After finalizing the disc in the camcorder, the disc can play back in most DVD Players, computers and even PlayStation 2 video game consoles.

The 12x optical zoom helps to bring the action close up from far away. In addition the 800x Digital Zoom Interpolation means that extreme digital zooming is clearer, with less distortion than previous types of digital zooms.

Carl Zeiss lenses have an advanced optical multi-layer coating that offers less glare & flare with increased contrast. Picture stabilization system that uses motion sensors to detect & compensate for camera "shake".

The DCR-DVD205 is compatible with a variety of DVD formats allowing the easy of use and simplicity found in DVD Media. With DVD+RW media there is not a need to finalize the disc (minimum recording required). Simply remove the disc and insert the media into a compatible DVD Player.

Get creative when recording or playing back your videos with Sony's Picture Effect Modes. Effects available in camera and playback modes: Monotone, Mosaic, Pastel, and Sepia. Enhance your personal videos by adding professional looking fader effects. Choose from Black, Overlap, White & Wipe.

Nero Express software is included for easy duplication & conversion from 3 Media to 5 ¼ Media. Program AE modes make recording easy even when filming in challenging situations. Choose from Beach and Ski, Landscape, Portrait, Spotlight, Sports Lesson, & Sunset and Moon.