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Summary: One of the Best Product Design - ever
Review: ...You want it - you got it. Excellent picture quality; Sony steady-shot that really works; still-image capture to tape (or extra adapter card+memory stick a must!); bright LCD display; variable audio feedback; IEEE firewire, controls that are easy to reach and are learned-responses for those familiar with previous Sony cams. Specifically, we use this unit for green-screen compositing of people, environments, and virtual products. The firewire coupled with Adobe Premier is a god-send. Simply said, that is essentially all you need (plus consistent overall lighting in a green-screen environment). G3 or PC - firewire will suck it down as fast as anything I've seen. Positively get the custom aluminum case if you do a lot of travel and want to keep your camera happy. This will keep all your components safe and somewhat easily accessible. Get a 2+ hour battery; the NP-750 battery has plenty of gas - surprisingly the LCD does not drain the juice too quickly. A PC transfer card for the memory stick would be nice - but you can get away with plugging the IEEE and transferring from memory card or to tape. The construction and attention to product detail is marvelous. Little rubber covers, positive audio clicks, all the nifty nick-nacks want you to have Sony make your next car. Sure there are a few quirks - but there's few products that have such high quality and high value as the TRV900!
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Summary: Great camera, crummy price
Review: 3CCD camera which gives excellent picture quality - nearly pro broadcast quality. Fantastic compatibility with Firewire and DV, important to know if you are going to edit video on your home computer.
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Summary: A great camcorder
Review: Experience shows that when Sony introduces a first new product in its class, they make a killer product to strenghten their image. This camcorder is one of them (the others are their first SACD, first DVD player, first walkman, first digital walkman, first trinitron TV, etc...) This camcorder provides broadcast quality-- sharpness, color saturation are first rate. I also tried other 1 CCD camcorders and none of them come close to the performance and construction quality of TRV900. The only drawback I can think of is the TRV900 has a bit of bluish tone in the color which can't be adjusted and the brightness is one stop too bright (which can be adjusted)
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Summary: SONY TRV900 WOW!
Review: Having a background in commercial television I did not believe that production on that level is possible at this price level. You will be amazed at the quality. I recommend the memory stick for still pictures and you will need the floppy adapter for the computer. Your stills will be outstanding. Couple all this with fire wire capture and a good editing program (Adobe 5.1c) and your finished product will be excellent. The money to step up to this is well spent.
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Summary: Going 'round the world ....
Review: Having searched the market for a DV that is light, full of features, video and still capture, down-loadable, easy to pack ... I could go on and on ... but these were important features for me. Getting ready to trek the globe via backpack for 18 months, I will be utilizing "Internet Cafe`s" the world over and the 900 provides me with all the features I need and more to send pictures back home via e-mail and to add to websites. I am definatly a consumer .. not a wannabe professional. It's fun to use, light, picture quality is exciting, I would recommend this DV to anyone looking to buy a system that will provide great quality in a small package. The manual could be better and the availability of accessories could also be better. But this in no way deters from my pride of ownership
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Summary: Correction on May 16th Review
Review: I bought the TRV 900 in September of 1999 and have been very pleased these past few years. This camera is lightweight enough to travel with...with me, it's been from Italy to Arizona...and produces clean, colorful pictures. I can also grab "still" pictures from my videos and have a perfectly captured photo (i.e. the perfect smile on someone's face or a moment in which a bird dives into a shot etc.) My only wish with this photo function is that the still photos had better picture quality...as good as the video. Nevertheless, it is still a fun function and allows me to send my photos from trips to others via email. The camera has many special effects which are fun to work with such as black and white, sepia tone, negative (great for manually made titles), slim (make yourself thinner!), stretch (make people on the beach fatter!), posterized effects etc...if you can edit in your head, these effects can save rendering time later. (For editing, I've used AVID EXpress DV. The Sony TRV 900 footage loads nicely into the AVID Express DV editing system and is a pleasure to work with. AVID Express DV editing software is expensive (2K) and does have somewhat of a learning curve but with time and effort is well worth the money. If you get this software and you're new to editing, get a turnkey system from a place such as Promax. )
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Summary: GREAT CAMERA! A DELIGHT! FUN ! A PLEASURE!
Review: I bought the TRV 900 in September of 1999 and have been very pleased these past few years. This camera is lightweight enough to travel with...with me, it's been from Italy to Arizona...and produces clean, colorful pictures. I can also grab "still" pictures from my videos and have a perfectly captured photo (i.e. the perfect smile on someone's face or a moment in which a bird dives into a shot etc.) My only wish with this photo function is that the still photos had better picture quality...as good as the video. Nevertheless, it is still a fun function and allows me to send my photos from trips to others via email. The camera has many special effects which are fun to work with such as black and white, sepia tone, negative (great for manually made titles), slim (make yourself thinner!), stretch (make people on the beach fatter!), posterized effects etc...if you can edit in your head, these effects can save rendering time later. (For editing, I've used AVID EXpress DV. The Sony TRV 900 footage loads nicely into the AVID Express DV editing system and is a pleasure to work with. AVID Express DV editing software is expensive (2K) and does have somewhat of a learning curve but with time and effort is well worth the money. If you get this software and you're new to editing, get a turnkey system from a place such as Promax. )
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Summary: This is a dream of a camera
Review: I bought this camera about two weeks before leaving for a vacation in Europe. I wanted to take digital photos (my husband, who did not accompany me, wanted the high-quality video and didn't want two cameras). It is so easy to use you hardly need the manual. I was thrilled to have the video so I could narrate the tour through my very strange hotel in Brighton, and capture the crowd's frenzy during the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace. While I could not view my video on European TVs, I could watch it on the sparkling color panel. You can take stills on a memory stick (adapter and memory stick optional -- mine was 32MB and was enough for more than 170 photos), onto the tape, or capture a still image from the video playback. Best of all, you can preview what your picture will look like and capture it or not. Later, in your room, you can selectively delete any photos that don't look good. Optical zoom is fabulous (the equivalent of 50mm to 210mm on a 35mm camera). Use a tripod for steadiness on the longest zoom. Don't bother with any of the digital doo-dads -- your pictures will be so wonderful you won't need them. The stills are only 640 x 480, so a digital still camera might be a better choice for high res photos. This camera also doesn't see that well in the dark, though you can get a video light for it. Bottom line is you will get fabulous video and beautiful stills in an easy to use package.
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Summary: Battery-charging problems
Review: I cannot believe I paid so much for a camcorder that has such a JUNKIE battery charger built in. If it gets bumped even slightly, or has too much pressure on the cord just laying there, it comes out. You pick up a camera thinking it is charged, and find out it is NOT!! Bought before going on vacation, & called the store upon my return to complain. They said, "That is just Sony's way of making you buy a separate charger." After several months of hassles, I notified Sony about my dissatisfaction with this, & their customer service rep sent me a smart-alec reply by e-mail. Won't buy another Sony product if that is how they take care of customers. Sandy
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Summary: DV Prosumer delight
Review: I chose the DCR-TRV900 after extensive market research and have not been disappointed. Power supply isn't a problem anymore using the FP-950 battery as I can use it all day on photo/video shoots. The large LCD display is excellent for both recording and playback, even outdoors. However, it is sometimes inconvenient to have to open the LCD panel to access the Menu button. The picture colour and resolution quality is excellent, easily as good as some 'semi-pro' cameras in the 2-3 times price category. I use a 32MB memory card and can store up to around 170x jpg images at the SuperFine setting. I would have liked image resolution of 800x600 but the 640x480 is fine for video editing purposes. Having the recording capability for DV, S-Video and composite video is a real bonus, especially for making DV master copies of current and past projects. The manual controls take some practice due to their small size and Menu driven operation, especially if adjustments have to be made 'on the run' but all in all, I haven't been disappointed with my choice of video camera.
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