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Sony Handycam DCR-TRV820
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Well, This camera. There are many advantages and disadvantages about this camera. I think the advantages deffinatly out way the disadvantages though. For a start the camera is big, a lot of people don`t like big cameras considering all the new digital camcorders are extremely small, but very expensive. The 820 has many advantages over ... the 320 and the 520, and the price difference isn`t much. For a start the 820 has a 4 inch viewscreen, it has a built in printer, which i suppose is a good thing but its not that good quality. The camera has a 25x optical and a 450x digital zoom. The zoom is pretty good quality and one advantage of this is that you can zoom in into previously recorded videos. You get o-lux with super night shot which means when you are in complete darkness it will shine up the room through the view screen without having a built in light, which francly are a waste of time when you have technology as good as this. There are 14 picture affects, which 6 of them are digital. You also get an infra red system with the camera, I wouldn`t have a clue what a family orientated camera would need infra red but its another option attracted me to the camera. Well one of the biggest things that attracted me to the camera was the digital still camera built in to the package. The pixels is (640x480). Not the best amount of pixels a camera has used but for an extra but it is pretty good. It uses sonys new memory stick technology that can be plugged into your pc to download the photos or to a portable printer. I would suggest that anyobdy who is going to buy this camera shop around on the internet first because I went on to a few sites and it was being sold for like £1400 and then I went to a certain site where i bought it from and I had it imported from america for about £500 which is a pretty amazing price for the amount of technonlogy you are getting in one machine that says quality.
This is the site i bought it from http://www.aaanet-inc.com/store/dcr-trv820.html
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Sony Handycam DCR-TRV110E
by Mandypotts
I bought a Sony 80x Digital Handycam Camcorder; it uses Hi8 Digital cassette tapes. The model I bought has a colour LCD monitor, which you can use during recording and playback, and when having problems recording kids, you can turn it 180 degrees and the kids can actually see themselves the right way up in it, it really fascinates my ... kids. The screen has a volume control and the sound is very clear, even on the highest setting. You can also adjust the brightness of the LCD screen
This model has a Nightshot 0 Lux facility, which when recording in the night enables you to see, you can see all the creatures that come out in the dark, very clearly. Luckily for me it has Super Steady Shot, I use my camcorder for long periods of time, even though the camcorder is very light your arm does begin to ache and then I get the shakes, but with Super Steady Shot, during playback there is no evidence of this shaking.
At the time when I purchased this camcorder, there was a special offer, were if you sent the invoice plus £2 you received a accessory bag, spare Battery and a spare cassette tape. Included with the camcorder was a head cleaner, charger/mains lead a cassette tape and a remote handset for using the camera from a distance.
The Battery this camcorder uses is a info Lithum L, is it very small, but holds a charge which will do an hour and twenty minutes worth of normal recording, but if like me you use the LCD monitor it goes down a bit faster, because it is using more power. When plugged into the mains and in use, the battery is shut off, to stop it being drained. To charge the battery you just plug the camcorder into the mains and leave it turned off, the LCD display on the side of the camera well keep you informed of the charging progress, and when fully charged it will say FULL on this display.
The camcorder can record in different modes depending on the subject; you can have single poses, group poses, action shots and slow mot
ion, which is just, like watching the Olympics. On the bottom of the camcorder there is a screw fitting, which is for use on a tripod. There is a standby lock, which disables the record button, so you don’t end up with pictures of the inside of your accessory bag.
The camcorder comes with two different fittings for playback through a video or television, one is a scart socket connection, and the other is a set of three plugs, red, white and yellow. On playback the camcorder has a search facility, which enables a quick scan of the contents of the cassette, so you can find the clip you a looking for quickly.
The camcorder is reasonably light and very small it fits snugly into the palm of your hand.
This is my first ever camcorder and I have found it very easy to use, and I am very impressed with the recordings I have made so far, the pictures are clear and you can hear voices and sounds very clearly too.
I would recommend this camcorder to anybody.
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Sony Handycam DCR-TR7000E
by danfreedman
The Sony DCR-TR7000E is one of a new breed of cameras from Sony. In many ways this camera is an excellent compromise and offers the novice or advanced user a range of facilities which will cause it to remain the camera of first choice for many years to come. Digital cameras are appearing at a relentless pace, yet one thing ... remains a perenial problem for this breed of unit. Storage. There are numberous standards for storage media, all of which are relatively expensive. Sony has solved this problem at a stroke by combining a camera which uses Hi8 tape but records digitally. On a 90 miniute tape you can record in DV standard 60mins of film. At a cost of about £5 per hour, this is excellent value.
The camera has no swing out viewer - but no real drawback since they consume batteries at a frightening rate, and are almost impossible to see in bright light - the very light you ought to be filming in. The TR7000e and its replacement the 8000, can record in light as low as 0 lux, has a range of simple digital effects and exposure tricks. Sony does seem to have skimped in this area, there is no Titler for example. It seems that they expect digital camera users to have a PC or Mac on which to edit and title their productions.
The battery life is excellent, there are a range of proprietary Lithium Ion cells which Sony make that provide the camera with a good expectation of how long they will last. You can buy cells for up to 10 hours.
The Super Steady shot, in my opinion, works only so so. the 'Super' label is a bit too optomistic.
Other features include, the Sony Laser link, only really useful if you have an appropriate Digital Video recorder. The Zoom is a useful 80x - beyond that the picture shakes and trembles all over the place. In the hand the camera feels really comfortable. All the facilities fall comfortable to hand (or should that be finger). There is a nice Single shot Camera mode, which takes a perfect still pictu
re. This is so good that I found I did not pack my SLR on the last vacation. There are the normal fades and overlaps, and some exposer compensation settings for beach scenes or strong backlighting.
It is possible to find this camera at knock down prices - I heartily recommend it to you.
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