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   Anonymous
   April 28th, 2010 - 13:59

   This is a great buy because it is like having a Digital still camera and a video camera in one. It is very small and light too and looks good to I love this camera.
   Rating: 5 / 5
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   Scott Gearam
   April 28th, 2010 - 16:34

   I love this camcorder! I can get the close ups skinnaMAX can’t touch. The zoom is top notch and the wide angle action catches the nips. I would recommend checking the manuel as it gives the down low you can’t get just by trickin the gadget. The nightvision brings the dish to light and makes the digital quiver. I would encourage those who haven’t to experience the Sony DCR-TRV730 for themselves.
   Rating: 5 / 5
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   L. Yang
   April 28th, 2010 - 19:02

   I bought this machine and returned it. Why? Although this machine has many fancy features, it has problem with the most basic function: voice recording.

   When recording on 8mm tape with cables (battery was not charged yet) as power source, the recorded audio had very noisy static, a little like the siren in the ambulance. Totally unacceptable.

   Sony, why not make sure that your products can do some basic things correctly before spend so much efforts to build those mostly useless fancy features.
   Rating: 2 / 5
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   kevin pearson
   April 28th, 2010 - 21:43

   Used this for school and we are finding it works very well, so well, that our own high school is using this type of camera for all use of cameras for the school. Very reliable, high quality camera with easy to understand feautures and an easy way to film and to hold as well. Did have problem with lighting and trying to pick up sound at the same time but still very good.
   Rating: 4 / 5
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   Bill
   April 28th, 2010 - 23:57

   Well, after buying this TRV730 based on all the rave reviews from everyone (mostly) I am a bit disappointed to find out that no one was keen enough to accurately tell prospective buyers about the very POOR low light capability of this model. For the sake of me, I cannot make decent videos using my normal indoor lighting (100 watts or more incandescent lamps) in the room(s).
   The LCD screen shows the pictures much brighter than they really are when I upload them to the PC via the i-link (firewire) digital port into Adobe Primier or Ulead’s VideoStudio software.
   Sony seems to have turned up the video gamma, brightness and contrast inside the camera for playback, because the videos look brighter when I play the tapes through the TRV730 itself connected to my Sony TV via the composite video output of the camera. Digital upload to PC do not look anything near what shows up on the TV composite output, so Digitial copies will be very poor and DARK because of this! My older Sony 8mm analog cams do much better than this in low light and the colors look better too. The Colors on the TRV-730 look pale and washed out. Not at all like the vibrant “Sony colors” I have come to expect from Sony cameras in general. What happened Sony?
   The good points people have raved about are true… I just had to enter my experiences to tell the bad points that most people are not telling (or they are beginners and just don’t know [...]) Sorry. Does’nt anyone else see this problem or is it just my camera that may be defective? Those are my only gripes (bad faded colors, bad low light sensitivity). Low light pics are not noisey, but just very dark, too dark to see!) … Oh one more thing, yeah the lense is not so “wide angle”, it is like it is always zoomed up on the scene. So beware wide angle lense freaks. This is not good either.
   Rating: 3 / 5

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