Hand held camcorders allow you to record your own video and make photoshots. You can always have such cameras with you to record the important moments of your life and share them with friends or family. You can even make your own movie!
The DCR-HC40 provides the best combination of ease of use and high picture quality yet seen in a DV Handycam. Enhancements include a new compact horizontal body design, 16:9 widescreen mode, enhanced touch sensitive LCD technology, improved menu systems and higher quality CCDs and lenses.
The DCR-HC40 features a larger and more versatile ‘Hybrid’ LCD screen. This 2.5-inch display provides
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a very bright picture for use in high contrast situations, such as beach or ski scenes. The 1 Megapixel CCD lends weight to the 16:9 widescreen mode and provides a much more natural picture. The high-class image processing of the DCR-HC40 is complemented by its top quality Carl Zeiss Lens. This offers a 10x Variable Optical Zoom and 120x Precision Digital Zoom. It offers Super NightShot Plus, an enhanced version of the technology that can produce colour pictures even when recording in the dark.
An Easy Handycam button on the camcorder now provides a one-step solution for ease of use for beginners. The HC40 comes bundled with Picture Package software for adding music to video and burning to a compatible PC’s CD via the iLINK connection. USB Web streaming allows the camcorder to be used as a Webcam or to be burn video to a CD. The DCR-HC40 includes a DV-IN function that allows video edited on a PC to be recorded back to tape. The HC40 is compatible with Memory Stick DUO™ for high-speed digital image capture, half the size of a normal Memory Stick.
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Lens system
Digital zoom
Indicates the digital zoom capacity, the number of times that the picture is enlarged thanks to digital technology.
120 x
Optical zoom
Indicates the optical zoom capacity, the number of times that the picture can be enlarged with the optics of the camera.
10 x
Megapixel
MegaPixels: The number (in millions) of light-sensitive picture elements, or pixels, actually used by the camera's image sensor (CCD) to record light, and which are reflected to the final number of recorded pixels stored on the memory card.
1.07 MP
Lens system
Type of lens in this product, expressed as its characteristics including lens, zoom capability, focal length, 35 mm equivalent focal length, and aperture range
Carl Zeiss lens
Image sensor
Optical sensor size
1/5 "
Sensor type
CMOS: Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor, Analog sensor that converts light into digital information.
CCD: Charged Coupled Device, Digital sensor that converts light into digital information.
Advanced HAD CCD
Display
Display
The display technology. Flat screen technologies like Liquid Cristal Display (LCD) and Thin Film Transistor (TFT) active matrix technology are the trend.
In TV technologies one can notice FST (Flat Screen Tube) technology, and ARASC (Anti Reflexion, Anti Static Coating) or AGARAS (Anti-Glare ARASC) or simply AGC (anti-glare coating). The old tv and screen technology CRT means Cathodic Ray Tube. MLA = Micro Lens Array. p-Si=Polycrystalline Silicon. a-Si=Amorphous Silicon.
SwivelScreen hybrid LCD
Display diagonal
Size of the display for this product; expressed in inches diagonal
2.5 "
Viewfinder
Camera viewfinder
Window in the camera through which a photographer views the picture. Used for choosing, composing, and often focusing the image.
Optical Viewfinder (Real Image): The photographer looks through a transparent window to frame and focus the image. The photographer is seeing the real image, through the window of the viewfinder.
Digital Viewfinder: An LCD display built into a camera that gives a digital view of where the camera is pointing. It's used to compose and focus the image.
Colour
Technical details
Min illumination
5 lux
Resolution
1152x864 pixels
Technical details
Special features
Memory Stick Colour Duo slot Digital effects Playback zoom Analogue input MPEG MOVIE EX Progressive shutter system New GUI menu Precision digital zoom Start/stop button on LCD frame Super NightShot Plus SteadyShot Click to DVD i.Link (DV OUT) USB connectivity New P Series battery DV IN/OUT
Memory
Flash memory
8 MB
Connectivity
I/O ports
An interface on a device to which you can connect another device.
USB
Weight & dimensions
Weight
Weight of the product without packaging (nett weight). If possible, the nett weight is given including standard accessories and supplies. Please, note that sometimes the manufacturer is giving a too commercial interpretation of product weight, by leaving out the weight of accessories and/or supplies.
400 g
Dimensions W x D x H
Dimensions of the produkt (Width x Depth x Height) in millimeter.
