Sony PXWX180 XDCAM XAVC HD422 Hand-held Camcorder (Black)

this is Sony's pxw X 180 camcorder it's designed for news use for solo video journalists that kind of thing and fly-on-the-wall documentaries and it's the latest in a long line of illustrious camcorders of this ilk which started I suppose Oh at least over a decade ago it must have been when the z1 came out and that was very widely used then of course there was the Zed 5 one of those and there's also been the PM W 150 I think was the successor to the z5 and this is now the successor to that one so it's fairly standard in Sony sort of terms anyone who's used one of these Sony camcorders before will immediately feel at home with this one let me give you a quick tour around it then starting at the front you've got one of Sony's G lenses I don't know what a G lens means but it's Sony's own brand for their lenses and what's unusual about this one is that it's a 25 times optical zoom and let m