Sony HVLIRM Battery IR Light for DCR-DVD101, 201, 301, 105, 205, 305, 405, 505, DCR-HC21, 32 42, 26, 36, 46 & 96 Camcorders

Sony HVLIRM Battery IR Light for DCR-DVD101, 201, 301, 105, 205, 305, 405, 505, DCR-HC21, 32 42, 26, 36, 46 & 96 Camcorders Features

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Outdoors at night it's a different story.The way that night vision works, is that the lights are made of infrared light. One tip I will give if you decide to buy this. Overall I give the Sony HVLIRM Battery IR Light 5 out of 5 stars. When your outside, often times the light extends into the area in front of you, only able to hit trees, or anything else within the 100 feet. On the side of the light, there is a switch with 3 commands. The light extends in front of the camera, bounces off of objects, returns to the sensor, and the camcorder creates the picture on the screen in grayscale.

Buy it on either Amazon or EBay. The Sony HVLIRM Battery IR Light is a great tool to use for a camcorder with a poor night vision. What this tool does, is attaches to a camcorders accessory shoe, or attaches using the supplied accessory shoe if your camcorder does not have one, and extends night vision up to a claimed 100 feet. However, many stores specializing in batteries have cheaper versions of the same batteries that last just as long, if not longer.

The two available models are the NP-QM71D or NP-QM91D battery pack. This type of battery can easily be found online. This way, if the pack runs out of power, you can simply change the switch to the battery setting, and continue filming. If you buy it from [.]., you may be paying more than twice what you may pay elsewhere.

Not only does this prevent extremely close objects become washed out by the brightness, but it also saves the battery life. This is something to keep in mind.This IR light has two ways of being powered. Another great feature is you can adjust how far the IR light reaches. Indoors, the light can reach 100 feet, but the farther away the object is it will become less defined.

An off switch, and a switch to change between using the AA batteries power, and a switch to use power from a battery pack.A good practice to use if you have a battery pack is to put both AA batteries, and the battery pack in. The second is to buy a rechargeable Sony info lithium M series battery. When you are indoors, there are plenty of objects for the sensors to bounce the light off of, so it can reach 100 feet easily. The first is to use 2 AA batteries.

overall its pretty nice the good thing though is its battery option you can use "AA" or info lithium ion.plus you can intensify or make the light low.it fits on both the sony accessory shoe and the tripod area.another good thing is when it is on the tripod are it can still be fitted to a tripod. It just does what it says it can do although the quality of sonys products are really nice this product has failed in one aspect the place where the light fits into the panel has started to wobble. the illumination distance is around 20 ft but it is concentrated like a flashlight so you will have this round illuminated area then dark areas in your image.

The Sony HVLIRM Battery IR is superior to The Sima SL-20 & 10IR mostly because of the battery life/recharge time. When the pack dies, you simply flip the switch to engage the Alkaline (which last up to an hour). They also require over 2 hours to recharge. You can use any of the long-life Sony InfoLithium M series recharable batteries (the NP-FM50 delivers over FIVE HOURS, the NP-QM71 cranks out over 10 hours of uninterupted IR Light).

Overall, In my line of work as a full-time Paranormal Investigator, I am definately going for this IR Light with Battery Pack, etc. Or you can use just Alkaline if you don't want to buy the pack. The only disqppointment was that there is no way to recharge the Battery Pack on the IR Light itself. I do own two Sima IRs, two 10s & two 20s. You have to buy a (fairly inexpensive) charger. The Sima (both 10&20) have a constant usage time of 40-45 min.each, and that's pushing it.

Althouhg the Sony light sheds more of a "flashlight"-type dispersal, as compared to the Sima which acts more like a floodlight, the dimmer wheel on the lower left side can be used for a more "flood-type" type affect. These I will retain for emergency backup. The Sony has the GREAT advantage of having a unique power set-up. Plus, you can use 2AA alkaline as backup, facilitated by switch on the side.

Well, I was surprised when I looked through my view finder and it looked likeI had a flashlight on. if anyone says this does not work, they got a bad unit or did not use it as it is suppose to be. I got it and decided to put it to the test.

That was with 2 "AA" batteries and it stayed on 60 minutes with no change. Also the manual is in many languages which helps. I ordered the regular battery for this as I know it will be even better.

I bought this item for night parades of a group of kids that my granddaughter is in. It turned night into day. I sure would reccomend this.

I took it to my basement where there is no light at all once the lights are turned off. It sure made 100% difference.

It maybe more ackward with a heavy battery pack on it and I haven't even tried one yet. I got about 4 hours out of 2 AA Alkaline batteries in it. Purchased this for paranormal investigations. Unit works as described.