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

this is Sony's pxw X 180 camcorder it's identical to the pxw x 160 except that it adds GPS and Wi-Fi they are the latest in a long line of newsgathering fly-on-the-wall documentary and event camcorders which began with the legendary z1 and went through the z5e x1 and so on at the front there's a Sony G Series lens with a whopping 25 times optical zoom that's very handy for the kind of applications this cameras used for where you might not always be able to get close to whatever you've been tasked with filming and it's 26 millimeters equivalent at the wide end which isn't bad either as on the II x1 and pmw 200 this model has a two-position focus ring forward spins like the old z5 backwards gives you endstops from point 8 of a meter to infinity with markings in feet and meters on the barrel there's a printed reminder of which way is which underneath the zoom is switchable from servo to ma