Sony DCR-TRV245 (Sony Handycam DCR-TRV245)

Member Name: Matt2et

Product:	Sony Handycam DCR-TRV245
Date:	18/09/04 (700 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to use,, Looks great

Disadvantages: None that I can think of,

I've been using this camera for nearly a year now, and I don't regret buying it for a second, but I believe my daughter will as her hole life is now documented min by min on little labled tapes.

I think this is a good camera as a first one, it has a lot of good features such as:


Colour LCD Display
infoLITHIUM Battery
USB Streaming + Software
Steady shot
Night shot
Optical zoom x20
Digital zoon x700
Built in light
Photo option
Remote control

Now for the stuff you want to know what it all does,

Colour LCD display:
The LCD screen opens 90 degrees and it rotates 180 degrees, it's very good in the way that you can record and not be restricted by seeing everything in black and white, and it's easier for people who wear glasses as menu on the LCD has the option to make the menu look bigger, plus using the LCD uses more battery,

infoLITHIUM Battery:
I think this is very handy as it displays the amount of life left in the battery to the min, it also has a fairly good life but with the LCD screen open this decreases the it's life,

USB Streaming:
This is very good as you can capture those special moments on your pc via 1 single cable, and then you can share them aswell, the only problem is the software can be quite confusing but with a little patience you get the hang of it,

Photo option:
Another good thing about this camera is you can take still pic's aswell, on a 90 min tape you can take around 500 pics on short play and on long play you can take around 700,

Steady shot:
This helps keep the picture steady, you will be suprised how much this helps especially at long distance,

Night shot:
I think this is great because it's like night vision goggles, very good for recording nocturnal animalsin theire environment,

Optical zoom x20:
The picture is very clear, even close up's,

Digital zoom x700:
Now this is good, you can zoom in on objects from a great distance, you have the option to have either x40 zoom or x700 which ever, it's up to you depending on what you are filming, one thing I found is that the more I zoomed in the picture quality decreases,

Built in light:
The built in light is very small but powerful, and you can film quite far with it, one thing with using this option is that it uses quite alot of battery, but I still think this is a very handy option to have,

Remote control:
Well this controls the camera remotely lol. No really the buttons share the same name on the remote as the camera it's self so you can zoom in and out take pic's aswell as other things,


Would I recommend this to anyone? Yes I already have, my sister has the exact same camera and she is just as pleased as I am, and it's a very good buy for the price.

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