SONY Handycam DCR-SR220E: Intelligent technology

New technological advances empower you to capture every scene quickly and clearly without effort. Discover the freedom and joy of video creation!

This is the camcorder with Face Detection technology for movie recording. Sony synergizes this technology with BIONZ to deliver highly precise, high-speed auto focusing with detection for up to 8 subjects' faces and precise focusing of the main subject. This synergism ensures quick camera tracking of subjects even when their faces are moving and significantly improves the performance of various features. For example, it enhances colour control adjustment of skin and other facial features. When shooting movies, it prevents under/over-exposure of your subjects' faces. And when shooting still images, it optimises the flash settings to prevent loss of detail in face highlights and shadows.

	Portrait adjustment

When shooting portraits, Face Detection and BIONZ work with three automatic features — Auto Focus, Auto Exposure, and Auto Colour Control — to optimise reproduction of your subjects’ faces. The extra-pleasing outcome is more sharply focused faces, better skin colour, and appropriate exposure of faces even in challenging lighting conditions or when shooting still images with the flash.

Auto Focus

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Auto Exposure

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Auto Colour Control

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The D-Range Optimiser employs Sony’s original image analysis algorithm to automatically expand the dynamic range of your images. In all shooting conditions, it corrects contrast and exposure to bring out more of the details and generally ensure a more natural looking image.

Backlight compensation

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Contrast adjustment

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Every detail of the user interface is refined to simplify operation. Convenient navigation features, ergonomic controls, and accurate LCD colours all contribute to pleasurable, user-friendly performance.

	Ergonomic, easy-to-use GUI

Like the top page of a Web site, the Home Menu is the starting point for all operations. To record or play footage, change settings or edit scenes, first press the Home Menu icon on the top left of the touch panel or the Home Menu hardware button on the left side of the LCD. Then select the desired category from the Home Menu. The Option Menu provides quick access to the settings you need. Whether you’re shooting or playing footage, just press the Option Menu icon on the touch panel to display available settings for the current mode of operation. Then adjust settings as desired. A Help Function is also provided for when you need help understanding a function displayed on the Home Menu. Just press the “?” button and then press the listed function itself to display an easy-to-understand explanation. There is even a TV Connect Guide function that helps make connection between the DCR-SR220E and your TV completely trouble-free.

	Quick and easy navigation to desired scenes

Helpful search functions accelerate and simplify navigation. Film Roll Index and Face Index functions, in addition to Visual Index and Date Index, make every search fast, easy and enjoyable.

Whenever you're shooting footage, you can record audio through the built-in zoom microphone as Dolby Digital 5.1ch Surround Sound that raises the sense of realism when you play back your footage on connected 5.1ch-compatible systems. The zoom microphone can widen or narrow its pickup angle in accordance with the image zoom setting to focus on nearby or faraway sounds. When zooming in on birds perched in a distant tree, for example, the microphone automatically zooms in to capture their song.

Notes: Dolby Digital 5.1ch Surround Sound playback requires Handycam® or Handycam® Station connection via HDMI cable to systems featuring a 5.1ch Dolby Digital-compatible AV amplifier. The camcorder itself can only play the sound in 2ch stereo. The A/V Remote and A/V OUT jacks in Handycam® Station output 2ch stereo sound only.


Built-in zoom microphone

When the DCR-SR220E is in Sleep mode, simply press the Quick On button. Just one second later, you can shoot in standby mode. When you're finished shooting, press the Quick On button again to enter the Sleep mode. This handy feature ensures you'll never miss a photo opportunity.

Just press and you're ready to go in 1 second!

This user-friendly feature effectively minimises image blur commonly caused by camera shake resulting under normal hand-held shooting conditions as well as high zoom settings. When the gyro sensor detects camera shake, a lens shifts vertically and/or horizontally to adjust optical axis and path to compensate. For the DCR-SR220E, Super SteadyShot (Optical) effectively reduces camera shake blur in a wide range of situations.

Action sequences of 3 seconds become 12 seconds of slow motion playback with smooth, high-quality results. Just activate this feature and shoot any 3-second action sequence, such as a golf swing or football kick. Record 12 seconds of audio right afterward, if desired. Then play back the sequence and enjoy 12 seconds of stunning slow motion video with your voice recording simultaneously playing clearly at normal speed. It’s fun to watch and perfect for close analysis of sports moves. This remarkable feature was made possible by the exceptional combination of Sony’s high-quality ClearVid CMOS Sensor and BIONZ Imaging Processor.

Notes: Just turn ON sound recording in camera setup (Default setting is OFF). Image quality of Smooth Slow Rec is not the same as normal recording.

Scene Selection modes let you easily create beautiful images in almost any type of setting. Whether capturing a sunset with friends in the foreground and illuminated skyscrapers in the background, natural beauty at beach resorts, fireworks bursting at night, or festive white landscapes of snow, the results are as spectacular as the scene you shoot. The Portrait mode, for example, can produce sharp images of people or flowers on soft backgrounds. Super NightShot mode is also provided for clearly capturing subjects in dark environments without using a flash.