Sammanfattning: <b>Spec:</b> Camcorder, Digital8, 20 x<br> <b>Good:</b> Inexpensive; plays and digitizes analog 8mm and Hi8 tapes; responsive automatic mode; video light and infrared mode for night shooting.<br> <b>Bad:</b> Bulky; mediocre video quality; imprecise manual focus; black-and-white viewfinder.<br> <b>Bottomline:</b> With its ability to play and transfer your old tapes, the Sony Handycam DCR-TRV480 is an attractive choice if youre upgrading from an 8mm or Hi8 camcorder. But if you dont need 8mm or Hi8 compatibility, competing MiniDV cameras offer superior performance in much smaller packages.<br>
Sammanfattning: It shouldn?t surprise anyone that Sony has not thrown the R&D Dept. into overdrive trying to improve their Digital8 line. Imager specs have remained largely unchanged in the past few years: a 1/6? CCD with 290K effective pixels. There was a point, even...
Sammanfattning: The DCR-TRV480 uses Sonys proprietary Digital8 camcorder format to record digitally to analog 8mm and Hi8 videotapes. More importantly, it is backward compatible, so users can continue to enjoy all of their old recordings stored on analog 8mm and Hi8 ...
Sammanfattning: better--though noise levels are the same. Furthermore, the Digital8?s lack of a manual white balance function really inhibits the camcorder?s ability to produce high-quality gray-scale representations on a dime. All in all though, if you want to save ...
Inexpensive; plays and digitises analogue 8mm and Hi8 tapes; responsive automatic mode; video light and infrared mode for night shooting
Bulky; mediocre video quality; imprecise manual focus; black-and-white viewfinder
With its ability to play and transfer your old tapes, the Sony Handycam DCR-TRV480 is an attractive choice if youre upgrading from an 8mm or Hi8 camcorder. But if you dont need 8mm or Hi8 compatibility, competing MiniDV cameras offer superior perfor...
