Sony DCRTRV310 Handycam Digital Camcorder

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Summary: The last of the great Sony Handycams
Review: This must have been the best handycam for the price when I bought it! And I love the death out of it! All I can say is that this camera would still be great if it were still manufactured, 3 years later! If you find one someone who is selling this camera in good condition, by all means get it! It's a great camera!

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Summary: Bad quality and not good.
Review: This sony camcorder TRV 310 is having IC defalt and after few hours of use screen will flash and the system will shut down.This is not worth at all.I do not recoment any one to buy this product.

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Summary: excellent purchase
Review: this was a great buy right from the start, the picture quality on this camcorder is the best i've seen. the outdoor quality of this product was especially good, even in low light or other difficult situations.

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Summary: Best dam digital camera on the market.
Review: Took camera to Vegas and to the grand canyon. This camera has the most amazing zoom I've ever seen for the price. Rivels those network cameras that are used for the NFL games. Another great feature is I can (with the optional IR light) take pictures in total darkness for up to 100 feet. Sony has outdone itself on this product.

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Summary: Easy to use. Image quality good, not great.
Review: Traded up from a 6 year old Hitachi Hi-8 camcorder, hoping for greatly improved image quality. It is better, but not as great as I had expected. The camera is easy to use. The zoom works well and the 3.5" screen is super. My 4 year old loves to watch himself right after I film. Special effects are cool too. So far, only problem was a spec on the inside of the lens. It was exchanged, but I was surprised that would happen in a factory-sealed box. Otherwise it has functioned perfectly, which is a welcome relief after all the trouble I had with the Hitachi. Battery life is incredible! They actually last as long as they say. I reccommend the camera.

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Summary: Excellent performance, great price
Review: We got one of these a couple of months ago, in anticipation of our baby coming in October, and have had some time to play with it (sorry, I mean "practice" :) - excellent results. It did a great job at a nephew's (night) softball game, and with the still-capture card (about $220 mailorder) it does pretty well for snapshots and the like to email the relatives. I actually prefer the B&W viewfinder, the color one is pretty fuzzy/pixelated, B&W a lot sharper. And the flip-out screen is just the right size. Get one of the extended batteries, they work as well as advertised. An hour per tape hasn't been a problem for us yet, it's easy to switch tapes, and they're small.

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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: Well, I had read all the reviews of this model on Amazon and based my purchasing decision partly on this information. I expected picture quality from the 310 to be at least as good as my old PAL Sony 8mm. However, after 2 weeks of using the 310 we had to conclude that it simply provides inferior picture quality in most lighting situations. Inferior in both colour reproduction and in clarity, whatever the technical specs. say. For example, I have a coat with a maroon sleeve but this appeared bright red whatever exposure or program setting I used; same with the shop model we checked with when returning the purchased unit to the store - it didn't appear to be just a snafu with the particular unit we had purchased. We also compared the 310 picture with the supposedly inferior Panasonic 910 and both colour and clarity were actually better on the latter. Why? What is Sony playing at? We were expecting twice the clarity ("resolution") and 3 times the colour depth from this Digital 8 camera, as widely advertised. What are they talking about? When it comes down to it, its about picture quality, no matter what bells and whistles the machine has.

Boy, was I glad to get my money back!