A field report of the work with Sony's camcorder shoulder S270 - on the particularities of the cam such as the 4-channel 48 kHz 16-bit MPEG-2 sound recording (with a distinct choice for the monitoring of all channels), or the luxuriously extravagant I / O capabilities is received (as opposed to models such as the Z1, Z7, V1, or A1 to work with the S270 as the simultaneous output of multiple signals in different formats) and their practical viability.