The new camcorder features some characteristics that will make it your favorite. Let’s begin with its design: it has a titanium body with a hard coating that improves its ruggedness. It is compact and lightweight and fits your palm. The camcorder has a 2.7-inch touchscreen LCD display(diagonally), where you can see the images and which is used to get access to the majority of the camcorder's options. Due to the fact that it has 16GB of flash memory, the HDR-TG5V offers more than six hours of high-definition video footage. Moreover, if you buy Memory Stick PRO Duo(TM) media, which is sold separately, you will be able to expand the memory of the camcorder and receive additional time for recording.
Smile Shutter technology is used for capturing of qualitative photos of smiling people recording video at the same time. Face Detection technology recognizes faces and corrects focus and color automatically. The camera features BIONZ Image Processor that operates with an Exmor CMOS sensor and Carl Zeis Vaio-Tessar lens with 10X optical zoom. A built-in flash serves to improve images snapped in low light conditions.
The camcorder will appear in Sony stores in May and will cost 1.000 USD.