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Technical Details
- 16:9 Recording Format: Yes
- 3 CCD Technic: No
- 3 CCD-Technic: no
- Analogue/Digital: Digital
- Compact Flash Card: No
- Digital Input: Yes
- Firewire IEEE-1394 Interface: Yes
- Handheld Position: Vertical
- Image Stabiliser: Digital Image Stabiliser
- Image Stabilizer Type: Electrical
- LCD Screen Size in Inches: 2.5
- Maximum Pixel (in Megapixel): 3.31
- Maximum Pixels (in Megapixel): 3.31
- Maximum Pixels (in Thousands): 3310
- Maximum pixels (in thousands): 3310
- Megapixel: yes
- Memory Stick: Yes
- Multimedia Card: No
- Optical Zoom (Ratio): 10
- Remote Control: Yes
- Secure Digital Card: No
- Smart Media Card: No
- Sound System: Stereo
- Type of Memory Card: Multi
- USB Interface: Yes
- Video System: Mini DV
- Viewfinder: No
- Weight in Grams: 440
- Weight in grams: 440
- Wireless Interface: No
- xD-Picture Card: No
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Amazingly powerful, yet incredibly compact, the DCR-PC350 Handycam® camcorder puts the power of MiniDV in the palm of your hands. Its powerful 1/3" Advanced HAD" (Hole Accumulation Diode) CCD combines with the Carl Zeiss® Vario-Sonnar® T* 10x optical zoom lens to provide extraordinary digital video time after time. Combined with Memory Stick Duo" media, it can even capture 3.0 Megapixel photographs like a digital camera.
Other features include a 2.5" hybrid SwivelScreen" LCD display with touch panel capabilities, Super NightShot® infrared system for low-light image capture, and Super SteadyShot® image stabilization system for smooth imaging. The DCR-PC350 comes supplied with a Handycam® Station for convenient battery charging and easy video transfers to a TV, VCR or personal computer.
3.0 Megapixel (Gross) Advanced HAD" CCD Imager
1/3" Advanced HAD" (Hole Accumulation Diode) CCD Imager with 2048K (effective) video pixels provides excellent detail and clarity, for exceptional digital video performance. Realize unprecedented digital still images with 3048K (effective) pixels. The Megapixel technology enhances your digital videos (530 lines of horizontal resolution) and digital photography performance.
10X Optical/120X Digital Zoom
The optical zoom helps to bring the action up close from far away. In addition, the digital zoom interpolation means that extreme digital zooming is clearer, with less distortion than previous types of digital zooms.
Handycam® Station
Placing the DCR-PC350 on the supplied Handycam Station provides a quick and easy connection between the camcorder and a TV/VCR for easy viewing, or a USB or i.LINK® supported computer for video and still image editing. It also supplies power to the camcorder for charging the battery.
Digital Still Memory Mode with Memory Stick Duo" Media
Capture digital still images at 2016 x 1512, 1600 x 1200 or 640 x 480 resolution, directly onto Memory Stick Duo" Media for easy transfer to PC's for emailing, printing, or sharing with other compatible Memory Stick® Media devices.
Progressive Shutter
Mechanical shutter system that provides Progressive Scan performance while utilizing an interlace scanning system. Digital still images will be sharp and clear with excellent definition.
Super NightShot® Infrared System and Colour Slow Shutter
With Sony's NightShot® Infrared system, capture video in total darkness (0 lux) up to 10 feet away. Super NightShot 0 Lux recording mode automatically adjusts the shutter speed to increase picture brightness and clarity. Colour slow shutter mode allows you to record in low light situations with full colour detail by slowing down the shutter speed.
Analogue To Digital Conversion with Pass-Through
Convert and/or record any analogue NTSC video source to digital video via the analogue inputs. Analogue NTSC video can also be passed through the digital Handycam camcorder directly into a PC via the i.LINK® interface in real-time for easy PC editing of your analogue footage.
InfoLithium® Battery with AccuPower" Meter System1
Charge the battery at any time because unlike NiCad (Nickel Cadmium) batteries Sony's rechargeable Lithium-Ion batteries are not subjected to a life shortening memory effect". Sony's exclusive AccuPower" meter displays the battery time remaining in minutes, in the viewfinder or the LCD screen.
Super SteadyShot® Image Stabilization System
An advanced version of Sony's SteadyShot® system that controls an even higher range of shake and vibration frequencies, to achieve an even higher level of smoothness without degradation of video like some other image stabilization systems.
12-Bit/16-Bit PCM Digital Stereo
16-Bit offers the same outstanding sound quality as compact disc. 12-Bit recording enables you to add an additional audio track with compatible audio dubbing equipment or i.LINK®* interface compatible computers.
Picture Package" Software
Easily create fun music videos with the supplied software.
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68 of 69 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Small But Perfectly Formed?,
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This review is from: Sony DCR-PC350E Digital Camcorder (Electronics)
...well almost.I've had this camcorder for about one month now, and the performance is incredible given its size. I wont talk much about the (formidable) list of editing/dubbing/effects options available, suffice to say that once shot, you can do all the usual stuff with your footage to enhance it. Instead, I want to talk about the basic quality of the camcorder you'll be spending your many £££'s on. Its video quality is quite simply astounding. The colour reproduction is very accurate, thanks to that Primary Colour Filter, very neutral, very true to life. The CCD produces resolutions that are easily comparable to the very best digital TV/tuner systems, and not far short of pre-recorded DVD standard. Using interlaced encoding; movement is very smooth, with no blurring of lines or colour bleed, and no discernable digital "artefacts". I really like the 16:9 widescreen mode, which uses an optical method, giving a genuine wider-angle view, and capturing the full frame, without the pixel loss associated with digital "cropping". The progressive mode at 25 frames/sec looks choppy as you'd expect, and to my mind is a bit of a gimmick, useful only if you plan to capture still frames from your videos. Why you would want to do that, given the performance of this machine as a 3 megapixel stills camera, I don't know. Talking of stills, this camera really does do a good job, unlike just about all other camcorders. Having seen test photos from its predecessor, the PC330, which I was thinking of buying, the results from the PC350 are much less grainy and benefit from the same colour fidelity as the videos. The sound recording quality is both a revelation and a disappointment at the same time. It's the Achilles heel of this camcorder, because on the one hand, the microphone is very sensitive, and with the 16bit sampling, gives a wonderfully accurate and detailed stereo soundstage with no clipping in loud situations such as at a party, but on the other hand is so sensitive that it picks up the tape motor noise if shooting in very quiet situations. The problem is not that the motor is loud, it's that the camera is so small and the mic therefore in such close proximity to the internal workings. Ok, most of the time you just won't notice it, nevertheless, for this reason alone, I'm knocking a star off its overall rating. The ergonomics are fine and button layout is logical. However, if you have hands like dinner plates, this is not the camcorder for you. Battery life, I think is pretty good, giving 90 minutes or thereabouts, continuous shooting, with the supplied NP-FF51. I edit videos on my computer, and the docking station is great for uploading footage/stills while charging the battery. Conclusion: Really glad I got this camera, it's a beauty! Don't be put off by the tape noise, that's a minor quibble, and a fault on many camcorders.
14 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty good!,
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This review is from: Sony DCR-PC350E Digital Camcorder (Electronics)
Its amazing to think that in the palm of your hand you could have something so powerful! I thought that when you sell things like this, only movie directors bought them!
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