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Summary: Good deal
Review: I've been looking around at prices and i'de say this is the best price I've found. I was checking out other cameras and found one for $500. It was not as good as this one and cost more. Its worth your cash and the specs are nice! Like the 25x optical zoom is crazy. The digital zoom doesn't really make a difference after u get over 200x zoom on that. So dont think that 700x zoom makes much of a difference. I'de say buy it asap.
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Summary: Good deal
Review: I've been looking around at prices and i'de say this is the best price I've found. I was checking out other cameras and found one for $500. It was not as good as this one and cost more. Its worth your cash and the specs are nice! Like the 25x optical zoom is crazy. The digital zoom doesn't really make a difference after u get over 200x zoom on that. So dont think that 700x zoom makes much of a difference. I'de say buy it asap.
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Summary: Awesome Camcorder
Review: Im 14 years old and I like to make little home movies with my brothers and friends. This camcorder changed everything. It is very user friendly and easy to use. i. Link is the greatest, and the camera supports it. Some people say it's grainy indoors but it's hard to notice it, even if it has that problem. It has stereo sound which sounds great. Get this camera outside the pictures are amazing. As for the still camera it is alright, but I have to sony DSC-P50 (see my review) so I don't use it much. I would recommend this camera to anyone looking for a good camcorder...
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Summary: Good product, room for improvement within the price range
Review: Its a great camera for the money. However, I was surprised that there is no carry-case with it. The auto power off is a good feature to save battery, but if you have a tape inserted and you wanted to use it as a PC camera ... its bit annoying that it shuts itself off after few minutes! If a power cord is plugged in, and the camera definitely can sense that, then why not keep an option of deactivating auto power off! And the 700X digital zoom, sounds great, but I haven't been able to use it properly yet.
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Summary: Great Camera
Review: My fiance and I just purchased this camera and boy was I impressed! This is our first camcorder but not the first one I have used. It's light weight make it easy to handle. And the steadyshot works quite well. My hands are quite shaky but you could never tell by watching something I taped! The picture quality is good, but I am only using the standard A/V cables. Once I get the S-video cables I should see a dramatic upgrade in picture quality. The battery it comes with isn't the best, only about 90 minutes fully charged. I particularly liked the nightshot feature. Although the images come out in a green tone the picture quality is outstanding. I was fooling around with it in a pitch black room and you could see everything clear as day(green of coarse). The LCD is exceptionally smaller than the 530 but it is still big enough to fit most people's needs. Of coarse if you want to save battery power just don't use the LCD. The only thing I can't comment about is the still picture option. I just spent a large sum of money on a straight up digital camera so I don't need to use that option. So I am sorry I can't help you out there! Overall the camera is excellent and I would suggest it to anybody looking for a new camcorder.
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Summary: Caught in the Camera's Eye
Review: My review is for the Sony DCR-TRV340, but the picture and features of the 330 look awfully close. My wife and I were dragged kickin' and screamin' into the new and scary world of technology and I must say this Sony product has made it easy. We approached the camcorder counter with trepidation urged on with the primal need of expecting parents to capture a new life inside a TV box and I must say, Sony has made the experience rather pleasant.We've had this camera for about 3 months and I think have only begun to scratch the surface for what it can do. This may mean that there are way too many features here for what the average camcorder user may need. Here are the features that I like...the 25X digital zoom works like a charm and allowed us to film El Capitan in Yosemite and zoom into the rock climbers on the wall that was absolutely indiscernible to the naked eye. I also like the stop-photo feature that allows the camcorder to double as a digital camera. If you need photo quality digital imaging the resolution may not be enough, but it serves our needs to e-mail stills and post them to the web. Which brings me to yet another thumbs up feature: it is USB and firewall 1394 cable capable which makes it a home video producing machine when matched up with our DVD writer (it scares me that I know what those terms mean). Word of warning, with any digital camcorder purchase you have to buy a lot of accessories. Account for an extra couple hundred dollars to the cost of the camcorder alone. A salesman talked us into an extra memory stick, which I still haven't found a good use for it yet. I suppose the Sony memory stick is handy to save JPEG's directly to, but the firewall cable connection seems to be working just fine. If you don't need the memory stick, you may opt for another Sony model to keep the price down. This model could easily omit the memory stick and frankly at this point, I can't say I'd miss it. Pretty phenomenal camera and has been reliable so far. Well worth the money spent. Now where's that slobbering poop-filled diaper wonder so I can get me some 25X zoomed in shots of his creative endeavors...ohhh I can even shoot it at night with the Sony Nightshot IR feature.
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Summary: Caught in the Camera's Eye
Review: My review is for the Sony DCR-TRV340, but the picture and features of the 330 look awfully close. My wife and I were dragged kickin' and screamin' into the new and scary world of technology and I must say this Sony product has made it easy. We approached the camcorder counter with trepidation urged on with the primal need of expecting parents to capture a new life inside a TV box and I must say, Sony has made the experience rather pleasant. We've had this camera for about 3 months and I think have only begun to scratch the surface for what it can do. This may mean that there are way too many features here for what the average camcorder user may need. Here are the features that I like...the 25X digital zoom works like a charm and allowed us to film El Capitan in Yosemite and zoom into the rock climbers on the wall that was absolutely indiscernible to the naked eye. I also like the stop-photo feature that allows the camcorder to double as a digital camera. If you need photo quality digital imaging the resolution may not be enough, but it serves our needs to e-mail stills and post them to the web. Which brings me to yet another thumbs up feature: it is USB and firewall 1394 cable capable which makes it a home video producing machine when matched up with our DVD writer (it scares me that I know what those terms mean). Word of warning, with any digital camcorder purchase you have to buy a lot of accessories. Account for an extra couple hundred dollars to the cost of the camcorder alone. A salesman talked us into an extra memory stick, which I still haven't found a good use for it yet. I suppose the Sony memory stick is handy to save JPEG's directly to, but the firewall cable connection seems to be working just fine. If you don't need the memory stick, you may opt for another Sony model to keep the price down. This model could easily omit the memory stick and frankly at this point, I can't say I'd miss it. Pretty phenomenal camera and has been reliable so far. Well worth the money spent. Now where's that slobbering poop-filled diaper wonder so I can get me some 25X zoomed in shots of his creative endeavors...ohhh I can even shoot it at night with the Sony Nightshot IR feature.
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Summary: Problems -- do not buy!!!
Review: Numerous reports of camera stopping (type DCR trv38 and problem in google and you'll see what I mean) . The screen goes blank and that's the end of your DCR. Costs about $300 to repair. Reports from 2 months to 2 years usage and not linked to how often used or how treated. It is a problem with the "board" and your camera WILL die it's just a matter of when. It happened to us and we are thinking it was just us. We're buying a new DCR and you can bet it won't be a SONY even if they gave us one--they are too unreliable.
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Summary: A powerful multimedia tool:
Review: The product comes with a starter package complete with a battery, charger, memory stick, cables, tripod, and various cables neatly tucked into a carrier the size of a shaving kit. The plug and play features and the MGI software provide easy installation via the VCR, computer, or still photos. Unfortunately, you'll have lots of fun exploring images but then your battery dies during the 4th quarter of your son's football game, and you miss the winning play! Buy a backup battery and a 32MB memory stick to catch all of the action! Great product.
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Summary: Just the hard facts
Review: This camera was a birthday gift from my sweetheart and isundoubtedly the best there can be for ME ! But for all you guys outthere - here's what I found out. 1. Being digital hasadvantages... better resolution, color's great etc. Editing, however,is not so easy - takes time and the right tools (e.g. 'AdobePremiere') - so consider tapes being your primary storage medium. I'vemade VCDs and they're worth it but the quality is significantly lesserthan on tape. 2. Requires lots of light - outside it'sbeautiful... inside - JPG-like artifacts appear (also, colored dots ona perfectly white wall) But this is acceptable if you're *not* lookingfor professional quality. 3. Optical Zoom is great - 25X - one ofthe highest and definitely comes in handy. I've turned off digitalzoom (MoreThanYou'llEverNeed X) since it reduces picture quality and Ican anyway do it on the computer while editing. 25X optical is enoughfor most needs. 4. Picture stability (steady shot technology) isgreat - shots from a moving car are stable. 5. Buttons are a bit tooclose to each other - in my first exp., at a friend's party, I must'vemissed a cycle of on/off so, we got to see shots of table tops, walls;) and cleanly missed the action ;) fortunately this lasted for onlyabout 5 mins before i realized. The recording indicator is easy tomiss when you're concentrating on the subject (and if you've had ali'l too many beers ;))... 6. Memory stick stills taken in mediumlight again have JPEG artifacts and paying extra $... (over DCR-TRV230with no memory stick - you *can* take stills on tape) for this is notworth it if you have a digital camera already. However, your cameramight not have 25X optical zoom so think about it. This camera usesthe same chipset for video and stills. In more expensive models, thereare two chipsets. 7. Night shot (shooting in darkness) sounds greatand works great - if you don't mind loss of almost all color and agreenish tinge to everything. To our party, however, it gave a 'BlairWitch' effect - everyone loved it. It's better to have some normal(intruding) light source attached to the CAM. 8. MIC is verysensitive and sound has been amazing throughout. 9. LCD is great -less dotty than DCR-TRV530 and uses less battery (1"smaller). 10. The bundled battery lasts for about 75 mins on an avg- so you want to buy a backup for trips. Charging to FULL was somewhatslower than I expected. This camera has some built-in editingfeatures which I am yet to explore fully. To transfer the video tomy computer for editing, I had to shell out an extra $... for aFireWire kit. The installation on Windows 2000 was quite painless - itdid everything for me except plug in the card physically. Overall a4 rating - a great camera and worth the money you put in - even inthis recession.
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