Sony Handycam DCR-DVD301 1MP DVD Camcorder with 10x Optical Zoom Review

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Hi I'm Rob and I wanna talk to you for a minute about the mini digital the video camera by Sony the handy cam. I know these things have been out for a little while now but this is my first experienced of owning well I don't own it it belongs to my church and I get to use it. And I've used it just sparatically in the past before but I really love this little camera. It is just great I read somewhere on line that is. it's kinda lower sale than it's got at Big Brother that is more expensive _____ but it's got everything that you could really need for just a normal use I mean I have a ton of like features is what they're saying and like a lot of the dissolve or a lot of fade in I think it's just one fade in there's different like shhhhh ___ you can have your fade in stuff but. That's fine you know you can do a lot of the editing you know like with I movie or different editors. Just a real quick I wanna show you what's on the outside here. There is a lens cover that's really cool to and just flip it up and down to protect your new lens there I really like that. Anyway it's got an easy button here I thought that was kind of trademark by the staples but it helps just to make the functioning of the camera a little bit easier for not use to running the camera it helps you I have noticed when I grow up right on video camera and start to something else on the outside I guess is the viewfinder. It pulls out really nice so you can see what you're doing there and it's got a big screen as well which surrounds that ways so if I got this on a tripod I can use that to run and then ___ myself that way. Or that's cool too if you're up you know doing a crowd shot or doing a low shot you're down and you tilt it up so you can see what is going on down there. Also they have night shots so that's pretty cool for helping take pictures at night on video. And here is where all your connections are made. It's got USB and fire wire in a different AV out from Sony down into like regular RCA. And it also take a digital photo to I don't do a lot of that which we do just the video on it. But in the camera setting well just turn it on anyway you can go anywhere you can go anywhere really but if you wonder how to get around in your screen and stuff you just push it with the touch screen. So you just go right on to wherever you want. Those little keys are down and stuff but anyway yeah you just touch where you wanna go and focus on ____ focus push on it and make your setting or whatever and change it back to auto. You just touch the screen wherever the button is to be pushed either with your fingernail or your fingertip. And it works really great so I definitely gotta kick on that. Something else cool that notice up here you have like your zoom for when you're normal doing it but a lot of times that's too fast you know if you're doing like a fast music video that is fast to zoom in now that is really cool but if you wanna slow zoom then have zoom setting here and the record button here to like here is the recorder. I guess as if you are right there you can just step on it there. But the wide and ____ settings here make it zoom in really slow so it gives you another option for zoom in and makes it really really and easy to do that way. So just really happy with the Sony handy cam here and definitely recommend it if you are looking for a camcorder and especially if you wanting to use it to put on your computer and burn DVDs or make movies out of it you definitely wanna go with the mini DV digital video quality and Sony has been doing it for a while so I would definitely buy from them if I have inherited one.