The first ever Sony Handycam from 1985, model CCD-M8U, is the ancestor of all hand-held camcorders. It was revolutionary at the time, but also quite limited in what it could do, with fixed focus, no zoom, and no ability to play back its own recordings. Nonetheless it began a long line of 8mm tape camcorders, the last of which was the Sony CCD-TRV138 Hi8 Handycam from 2005-2007, which I also demonstrate.

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