Sony Handycam DCR-TRV280 Digital8 Camcorder with 20x Optical Zoom Review

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Hello Expo TV today I'll be reviewing my Sony Digital8 steady shot handy cam. It's a nice light weight digital camera you can use it either with a memory card that's inside or you can use it with a tape that's inside. This is your power you just flip that down and now it's on the tape as you can see and if I flip it again it goes for the memory card. You got the ___ the LCD screen which is also a touch screen so if I play menu and I can get to the menu and those are all the options you've got back and then go back. I can go to edit if I flip one more time and then if I hit the put it back and go for the ___now I can look at each individual pictures that we've taken. I can highlight that picture and either delete or not coz I like that picture. And then flip it again and I'm ready to record again. I get display put the display button and it will come up with all the information time running and all that stuff check out the lens cap so I could see and I could get rid of that display info and now there's nothing displayed. It's got a night flash plus if you wanted to record something at night with the low light if you are outside or something like firework show or whatever you want to record at night. This will come out as a kind of infra red looking here's the battery pack here's the memory card right here. There's also a light see it little shine you need extra light for your shot that light will work. There's also a backlight here if your subject is ____ it will give you backlight to contrast that. This are design to be work with one hand so just slip your hand in here and you can go in between the mode here with that and here's the record button there's red button here the zoom is up here this little knob up here wide and close and if you close this screen and just look to the viewfinder you get more battery life out of it so I usually use either way depends on how much battery we've got. We have spare battery that came with it so we don't worry too much about the battery. If you open this up you can put in the USB cord and hook it directly to your computer get all your pictures off and on ____ how to do it. And here is the power cord so that you're not running on battery power at all times. And if you record at something you wanna watch on TV you can use this AV cables plug in directly into your audio and video cords on your TV and plug it directly behind here and you're off and running you can check out all your home movies on your TV whichever TV you have. So not too expensive but an excellent little digital camera like I said light weight and portable you can take pretty much anywhere take it to the stadium take it to the park whatever you wanna take picture of and you don't have to worry about a big bulky camera coz it's not too bulk at all. You wanna change out tapes eject button is down here and the tape comes out and you can put in your tapes in there. So if you wanna light weight portable and not too bulky digital camera I highly recommend the Digital8 steady cam from Sony thank you.