Sony Handycam DCR-TRV70 MiniDV Digital Camcorder

All the sales reps raved about the touch screen me ...

Strengths: Sony name and lens quality.

Weaknesses: Poor still images. Poor on-screen menu visibility.

Summary: All the sales reps raved about the touch screen menu system, but is it useless outdoors since it is too hard to view and cannot be observed in the viewfinder. Any outdoor light renders the LCD screen useless, and the menus cannot be accessed any other way.

Still images were supposed to be impressive with the 2 Meg still capability, but the JPG compression is too high and you get lots of jagged edges and poor contrast. Way overrated still capability. I opted for this model because it had the highest resolution, uninterpolated still images. I am VERY disappointed with the quality of the still images.

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-- Video cam Color is not too showy, Edge is le ...

Strengths: natural color and smooth gradation. Wide-TV Recording mode. Progressive Recording mode.

Weaknesses: narrow lens view. vertical smear. Manual control operationality.

Summary: -- Video cam

Color is not too showy, Edge is less enhancement, Gradation is smooth. It means that video quality is Natural and Real.

Lens view is narrow on normal recording mode, I recommend Wide-Conversion lens or change Wide-TV recording mode.

Progressive recording mode has much wide view, and much image quality. if you want to make video like cinema, try this.

Manual control on Screen panel has bad operationality.

-- Still cam

It seems overtax for this cam to take 1600x1200 still images, you need photo-editing software or something to solve image quality. However 640x480 is very good. Flash and focus system is excellent, easy to shoot.

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I think Sony did a good job making this camera. So ...

Strengths: Sharp picture. The picture color is close to the reality.

Weaknesses: Don't see it

Summary: I think Sony did a good job making this camera. Sony chose the high grade lens so that the result was very magnificient. It worth to buy this camera.

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first i have 3 choices:pana gs 200,optura 300,trv ...

Strengths: great pics,great image stabilizion,cool touch screen,night shot

Weaknesses: i don't find it

Summary: first i have 3 choices:pana gs 200,optura 300,trv 70. and i try gs 200,yes the colour is good as we expected from 3 ccd. but we must know to make 3ccd an afforable price pana has cut a lot of stuff inside the camcorder.just see the image stabilition...its useless...and canon..almost close to trv 70.it has compact body but the button its make me so tired because mst of it using thumb...

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This is the first time I baught a camcorder and wa ...

Strengths: 2 Mega pixel output, Good quality lens, manual focus, networking capability and a light weight product.

Weaknesses: Small LCD display.

Summary: This is the first time I baught a camcorder and was not sure of any of the camera's in the market. After a deep research I found that TRV70 contains all I need in a camcorder. The wonderful thing is it gives a great still quality and great output in the night view also. The networking capability is good but I do not think if it is used heavily. This is a great camera and I suggest you also to give it a try.

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