Macbook Pro as a Video Monitor

Is there any way of using my Mcbook as a monitor? I want to try and connect my camcorder (Sony Z1) to the laptop to playback footage immediately after shooting (rather than exporting it as a file etc). Surely there must be a way of doing this?
Thanks.

Not directly. You could try some sort of video input adapter, the kind for hooking up a VCR to your Mac so you can convert video tapes to files, for example. But many of the cheaper ones will not give good real-time video "preview", and often not at full screen.
You may have to carry along some sort of monitor. If you're near AC power, then a normal TV or monitor could work. Otherwise a portable TV, but I haven't seen many larger than 7". I saw [this 9" portable TV at Target|http://www.target.com/Digital-Labs-Portable-TV-DT291SA/dp/B002JGVEOE]. I've never used that model, so I can't say much about it.
Maybe even a projector. Some of the new "pico projectors" have batteries and are quite small, although they aren't very bright.

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