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Product Features
- 16:9 Recording Format: No
- 3 CCD Technic: No
- 3 CCD-Technic: no
- 3 Chip Technic: No
- Analogue/Digital: Digital
- Chip Type: CCD
- Compact Flash Card: No
- Digital Input: Yes
- Firewire IEEE-1394 Interface: No
- Handheld Position: Horizontal
- Image Stabiliser: Digital Image Stabiliser
- Image Stabilizer: yes
- Image Stabilizer Type: Electrical
- LCD Screen Size in Inches: 2.5
- Long Play: yes
- Long play: yes
- Longplay: yes
- Maximum Pixel (in Megapixel): 1.07
- Maximum Pixels (in Megapixel): 1.07
- Maximum Pixels (in Thousands): 1070
- Maximum pixels (in thousands): 1070
- Megapixel: yes
- Memory Stick: Yes
- Multimedia Card: No
- Optical Zoom (Ratio): unknown
- Photo Mode: no
- Picture Tube Type: Mos (CCD)
- Product Size: Palm Size
- Record Facility: Record+Playback
- Remote Control: Yes
- Resolution: Standard Definition
- Secure Digital Card: No
- Smart Media Card: No
- Sound: Stereo
- Sound System: Stereo
- Type of Memory Card: no
- USB Interface: No
- Video System: Mini DV
- Viewfinder: No
- WEIGHT/GRAMS: 725
- Weight in Grams: 640
- Weight in grams: 725
- Wireless Interface: No
- Year of Introduction: 2002
- Year of introduction: 2002
- xD-Picture Card: No
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Product Description
Computeractive, February-03
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Product Description
Capture those special moments with the DCR-TRV25 Mini DV Camcorder. The new MiniDV Camcorder from Sony creates high-quality visuals thanks to the 1024,000 pixel CCD and the Carl Zeiss 10x optical zoom lens. The super SteadyShot mode will make sure your visuals stay still, even if your hand doesn't.
Using the USB streaming feature the camcorder can also function as a WebCam. In addition to this, video footage can be downloaded directly to a PC via a USB port. This material can then be edited on your PC using the supplied software. Once edited, your masterpiece can be shared with the whole world via the Internet.
For those wanting to retain the high quality that the digital camcorder offers, the DCR-TRV25 offers iLink (DV in and out)--giving the user the ability to edit raw footage on their computer via a FireWire capture card and then output edited footage back onto the DCR-TRV25. The camera also features analogue video in and 14-bit DXP signal processing for greatly improved rendition of highlight and shadow detail.
The DCR-TRV25 includes the ability to record straight to MemoryStick. As with the DCR-TRV340, you can create MPEG movies by using MPEG MOVIE EX; your recording time is now only limited by the size of MemoryStick.
Add to these already impressive features a 2.5" 123,000 pixel LCD screen, manual focus, 120x digital zoom, playback zoom and Super NightShot mode for filming in very low light and you've got yourself a very impressive camcorder.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent choice for home viedo,
By A Customer
This review is from: Sony DCR-TRV25 Mini DV Camcorder (Electronics)
The optical quality is excellent. A memory stick is included that allows you to use the camera as a digital still camera. I was surprised to learn (I have no previous experience with digital cameras) that it was easier to take good pictures with this than with my Nikon. No need to use a flash indoors, and the resolution is far beyond what is normally needed for standard size pictures. And it was easy to get the still pictures into the computer with the included SW and cable. The video quality is excellent. In bright sunshine the automatic exposure overexposed a little but that can easily be handled with manual exposure. Same thing when movin from outside inside. You really need to learn how to balance the colors and adjust exposure and focus manually, too, to get to best quality. If you don't bother, you still get good quality in most situations. I intend to buy a video capture card to be able to edit on the computer, but until then, I just shoot. Transitions are smooth, and tne anti-shaking mechanism works beautifully. I don't have experience with other digital video cameras, but this is far better and easier the any analog camera.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
More than met my expectations...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Sony DCR-TRV25 Mini DV Camcorder (Electronics)
...Having used the camera a lot over the last few weeks, I am absolutely delighted with it. Having never owned a camcorder before I was expecting average results and slightly grainy video.Well I've been stunned by the TRV25. Video is crisp and smooth, although learning how to use the manual exposure certainly pays off, but isn't essential. Photos are, in my opinion, very good. You can' expect them to match a £700 digital stills camera, but for printing on 8x6 on a good printer you'll struggle to fault them. Everything is laid out well, although I could imagine things might get tricky for someone with smaller hands. But I've managed fine, I can take photos are record something instantly without having to fumble around finding the buttons. On the whole I can't see why someone would look away from a camera like this. It might not feature the professional functions of a camera twice it's price, but for anyhting less you can't go wrong.
14 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Very good for amateur video recording,
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This review is from: Sony DCR-TRV25 Mini DV Camcorder (Electronics)
...I have tested it under bright sunlight by selecting corresponding programms from the menu. The results were rather good. Its performance was very dissapointing when it comes to Auto functions. Firsly, most images were overexposed unless one was cintrolling manually the camera using the exposure buttom. If one of the big batteries (NP-QM71)is fitted to the camera, is hard to reach certain buttons (i.e. backlight, exposure. The only solution is to put the camera on the standby mode and do the necessary adjustments. Secondly, concerning the digital still pictures, the result is very dissapointing. I have used for a while the Canon Powershot 30, with 3MB resolution so the results from my camcorder are very poor indeed. The MPEG files are O.K. Thirdly, the digital Zoom (x120) is as the word says, digital, and it has nothing to do with the quality of a picture, a manual zoom can give you. So you do not expect to shoot films for the National Geographic! i.e. to bring a flying bird to a close up and that image to be clear etc... There is a picture noise that is very bad. A last point. I have shot during the night using the Night Shot button. Is it suppose to make the film like black and white? If this is the case, then it functions o.k. Without the assistance of this button or a flash, the movies are very dark. Overall the camera can be operated easily and has many capabilities. I would recommend the product but bare in mind that does not compare at all with high end modes( VX-2000, TRV 900).
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