Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Jul 18 '01
Pros: Stylish, excellent picture quality, features, still resolution, LCD size
Cons: Standard battery capacity
Summary: The Sony DCR-TRV30 MiniDV digital camcorder features an impressive 1.5-megapixel CCD, which allows it, in addition to impressive video quality, take still pictures at resolution up to 1360x1020.
MiniDV vs. Digital8 vs. Analog...
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May 22 '05
Pros: Exclent Quality, Easy Video to PC Transfer over Firewire, no motor noise, awesome LCD
Cons: Not so great stills,also take a bit to get used to all the features
Summary: After a long and extensive search for a Mini DV Camcorder I found this beauty which I had not cinsidered before because of cost. It was on clerance at Ultimate Electronics to make room for the new models. $720 was an attractive price considering Best...
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Jun 03 '04
Pros: Size, picture quality, variable zoom speed.
Cons: Electronics, low light conditions, 1.5 mp digital still worthless.
Summary: We've had this camera for about 18 months now and it has worked fairly well. However, for some time now, right as we turn it on, the camera begins to freak out and it starts up and shuts down over and over. Then, if you hit the record button it ...
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May 24 '02
Pros: Good still and camcorder picture quality.
Cons: Bad in low-light.Unless you buy the over-priced extended warranty you're screwed.
Summary: Just after the factory warranty was over the flash unit became intermittent - not flashing sometimes and ruining many good still shots. I thought that out of ignorance I might have changed some setting by accident(this camera is very hard to learn),...
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Apr 27 '02
Pros: Sony quality, good stills, nice size, flash for stills, big screen
Cons: difficult zoom, not many accessories included, only 4MB card included
Summary: My goal was to replace my Sony 8MM camcorder and my Sony Mavica FD71 with a single unit.
Using as a ditital camera:
The FD71 I'm replacing is convenient because it saves the photos to floppy disk, so transfering to any computer is easy....
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Mar 06 '02
Pros: Tons of great features, enjoyable to use
Cons: Extremely expensive
Summary: In my recent hiatus from the Epinions community I have been doing many things, not the least of which includes being a law student; however, I have also had a great deal of time over the holidays to check out some electronic devices including this...
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Mar 03 '02
Pros: Outstanding video and still pictures.
Cons: Buying tapes for the camera. They are kinda of expensive.
Summary: We were going to Vegas right after Christmas to get married, and we decided to get a digital video camera to record the experience. We bought the camera online. It arrive close to when it was promised and has worked beautifully.
After,...
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Feb 26 '02
Pros: lightweight, small, very convenient for storage and quick use.
Cons: Although convient, its size can make it easy to lose.
Summary: When I paid for this camera, my heart sank. I shelled out over a thousand bucks for a tiny little piece of filming equipment! But what an incredible little piece of filming equipment it was! Digital, no less. The quality was amazing, and I discovered...
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Feb 22 '02
Pros: 1.55 MP CCD, Progressive Scan, Digital Effects, Size, Huge 3.5" LCD, I Love It!
Cons: Price, Weight, Hypersensitive Zoom Rocker Switch, Other than that it's perfect!
Summary: After months of waiting, pleading to my wife, and saving every spare dime, I shelled out the cash for the TRV30 and I couldn't be more pleased with it. I have owned the camcorder for about a week now, it is everything I had hoped for and more. It has...
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Jan 15 '02
Pros: Amazing amount of features in such a small package
Cons: lo-res mpeg rec/playback, fair battery life
Summary: I found it quite intimidating at first (not buying a camcorder since a 1992 Canon Hi-8 and a 1988 RCA Super-VHS full-size model with hardly any bells and whistles), but this is an amazing unit, and the user's manual is easy to read, and once you get...
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Dec 21 '01
Pros: Excellent digital stills with superb digital video. Loaded with features.
Cons: A tad bit pricey.
Summary: The digital era. Photography and Videography will never be the same, and those of us who crave to have the very best of both are usually forced to purchase two separate cameras - one for digital stills and one for digital video via a MiniDV tape format....
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Aug 22 '01
Pros: Picture Quality, analog to computer (passthrough), broad feature complement
Cons: disappointing mpeg feature, so-so digital photos
Summary: The Short Version:
- This is beautiful technology we only could have dreamed about in such a small package only a few years ago. Clearly, much has changed technology-wise in the last year or two, and Sony is at the forefront with its DCR-TRV30 (At...
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Aug 15 '01
Pros: Great video and still pictures, features, and small size.
Cons: None
Summary: No need for a big long opinion about this camera. It takes great quality video and still pictures. If you want a small video camera, that you will actually take with you and use, that also doubles as a very good quality digital still camera then this...
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Jul 19 '01
Pros: PACKED with features and reasonably priced.
Cons: Comes with tiny 4MB memory stick, no firewire cable or even a blank tape.
Summary: A few months back, I was looking to buy a camcorder. I came to the conclusion that I wanted a digital camcorder. This would allow me to take videos and still pictures with one camera. I was trying to decide between the Sony TRV20 and the JVC...
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Oct 28 '02
Summary: Got this camera almost a year ago, and loving it every second. Great visual quality even in outside.
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