Knowing your Sony HVR-V1E camcorder's specifications can be beneficial for prospective camcorder consumers as well as for people who are already shooting videos with an HVR-V1E. According to DVuser, when Sony released the HVR-V1E in 2006, the company had the "independent low-budget filmmaker market" in mind. The camcorder's key specifications demonstrate its recording, playback and other performance capabilities.
Lens & Zoom
The Sony HVR-V1E utilizes a Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T lens. This lens consists of extra-low dispersion glass, for preventing color distortion, and has a focal length that can vary from 3.9 mm to 78 mm. By altering its focal length, the HVR-V1E camcorder can provide an optical zoom of 20x. The camcorder can provide a maximum zoom of 30x, which it accomplishes by combining optical zoom with digital zoom. Unlike optical zoom, which requires the physical movement of a camcorder's lens, digital zoom functions by digitally cropping out pixels at the edges of images. The higher a camera's zoom, the higher degree of magnification it can achieve. However, when you employ digital zoom, image resolution suffers as a consequence.
Image Sensing & Processing
According to Sony, the HVR-V1E is the first professional Sony camcorder to incorporate three ClearVid complementary metal-oxide semiconductor or CMOS video sensors. These sensors, each of which has a matrix size of 0.25 inches, work together to capture light and to convert that light into electronic signals. Having three sensors allows the camcorder to capture video with more vivid colors. The HVR-V1E's processor, a Sony Enhanced Imaging Processor, or EIP, processes those electronic signals and helps the CMOS sensors produce HD-quality video recordings.
Recording Resolution
As an HDV camcorder, the Sony HVR-V1E can capture digital video using 1,080 lines of vertical pixels. More specifically, the camcorder can provide a maximum video recording resolution of 1,440 pixels by 1,080 pixels, which makes for a total pixel count of 1,555,200 or approximately 1.6 million. In addition to capturing video, the HVR-V1E can capture still images using a maximum of 1,400 by 810 pixels of resolution. The higher a video's or image's resolution, the greater level of detail that video or image can provide.
Monitor Specs
Users of the Sony HVR-V1E can watch what they are recording -- or play back video -- using the camcorder's liquid-crystal display monitor. As an LCD, the monitor creates images by shining light on molecules that flow like liquids but that bend light like solid crystals. The monitor has a display size of 3.5 inches, as measured along the monitor's diagonal, and can provide a maximum display resolution of 211 by 200 pixels. As with recording resolution, a higher display resolution translates to finer details.
Inputs/Outputs
The Sony HVR-V1E includes three input/outputs for expanding the camcorder's audio/video functions. These are two XLR inputs and one HDMI output. While the XLR inputs allows users to connect more advanced microphones to the HVR-V1E, the HDMI output allows users to play an HVR-V1E's HD content on external video monitors.
General Specs
The Sony HVR-VIE is approximately 17.0 inches wide, 7.2 inches high and 5.7 inches deep. With its rechargeable battery attached, the camcorder weighs about 3.3 lbs. When fully-charged, the HVR-VIE's battery can provide an estimated 2.5 hours of sustained battery life. A long battery life is an important specification for camcorder operators who plan on recording away from power sources for extended periods of time.
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