Sony HDR-XR520VE | Sony HDR-XR520VE HD Camcorder

The HD Camcorder create's HD footage for viewing at home with the latest models boasting super advanced technology to boost the quality of your video. With HD camcorders quickly become the norm, prices are falling rapidly.

It would pay to buy a standard camcorder costing no more than £200 if you didn’t own an HD television which would take perfectly good footage onto whatever format. However footage from the best standard camcorder can look patchy on an HD television with a screen size larger than 30in.

With the cheapest HD Digital Camcorder there is a variety of recording media using affordable memory cards which are easy to swap between camcorder and pc but have limited capacity with an 8GB card holding about an hour of good quality HD footage, as opposed to a 40GB hard disk’s five hours. Despite their capacity advantage hard disks are heavier and bulkier so if were to you misplace or drop your camcorder you could end up losing hours of valuable film. The best top of the range HDR Camcorder available today is probably the superb Sony HDR-XR520VE.

The Sony HDR-XR520VE digital camera comes with fantastic Full HD video plus with up to 12-megapixel pictures plus fantastic low light imaging due to it's Exmor R CMOS sensor. The Sony HDR-XR520VE has an extra large 240GB hard disk drive which records up an amazing 101 hours of HD video. The Sony HDR-XR520V digital camera provides optical SteadyShot plus many more shooting features to capture those precious memories.

The Sony HDR-XR520VE comes with professional Carl Zeiss® Vario-Sonnar® T* lens with ClearVid CMOS sensor and BIONZ image processor which allows you to capture clean detailed imagery. Also the HDR-XR520 Super SteadyShot optical image stabilization and Face Detection help reduce blur and increase color and contrast. HDR = High Dynamic Range.