Sony Handycam DCR-TRV25 MiniDV Digital Camcorder with Memory Stick Media Storage Review

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Hi. I’m reviewing the Sony TRV25 Digital mini DV Camcorder. This was our first camcorder and we’ve been pretty happy with it for the most part. It has, I think about a 10x optical zoom and you know I don’t really like to pan it. It’s a 120x digital zoom and I don’t really like the digital zoom because it’s not real, it’s pixilated sometimes. And it’s kind of using the computer to see what the zoom would be. So I like to stick with the optical. That would be my one recommendation when you are looking at cameras and digital cameras. The, it has a one mega, megapixels camera kind of built into it though we hardly ever use it because the image quality isn’t that good. I’d rather just use a digital camera if I was going to do it. It records onto a memory stick if you want to do that. The video quality is good. And it’s pretty easy to use. The one thing that it has that some other cameras don’t have is it has night vision. We’ve tried it before. The one thing that you’ll notice it does do a pretty good job of being able to pick up people at night. But every body looks green and so, if you’re filming a lot of night stuff, then may be this is good for you if you don’t mind it being green because it does a pretty good job. The one thing about this is that it’s a little bit heavy. Its, it’s -- there’s a lot lighter cameras out there now and you’ll notice this after 10 or 15 minutes of shooting with this if you are holding it. If you’re sitting it on a tripod doing it for maybe, like, a wedding or something like that, it’s great. And for the most part we’ve been happy with it. The LCD screen: it looks pretty big on the side but its 2½ inches. We have the option of getting a little bit bigger one, which would kind of fill up almost this whole thing that is 3½ inches. But the one thing about that is the bigger the LCD screen, the more battery it takes. 0001:49.000Speaking of battery, it uses you know couple of different kinds. This is the one that comes with it. It’s, you know, pretty compact and you get two and a half hours on this, which is pretty good. If you want the bigger one, you’ll probably get about four and a half hours on it and that will probably be more than you normally need on a charge. You know, all in all, it’s a pretty good video camera. It’s mini DV so it makes it easier to transfer to computer obviously because it’s Sony it has firewire which they call, I think, iLink or something like that. So, you know, good camera, camcorder for the most part. A little bit heavy but, but on the most part we liked it.