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Digital8 tape is court admissible with a robust recording. I have tried many other formats and the winner for archival storage has been from this camera, I own more than 10 DCR-TRV350 units. Other video cameras recording with DVD media or Memory storage, the playback can skip or err, but tape I thought was totally mangled was still able to drag over a playback head and produce an image. It has more features than most casual users ever use - like Memory Mix of Mattes, foregrounds, backgrounds, title-card fade, watermarks, and a wealth of cinematic possibilities. Digital and Program effects, exposure automatic and manual, manual focus, steady shot, IR night shot and more are default for instant use but fully accessible for the picky Director of Photography demanding discreet manual adjustments. For ghost-hunters and Cheater-catchers the Night-Shot is still amazing at full-in zoom. See my continuous recording of time-lapse for 15 day/night duration (using D-160 data tapes) to witness the amazing ability to capture and track exposure through day, twilight and night utilizing the Color Slow Shutter - daylight isn't over-blown and there are details in the nighttime shadows as well - astounding.
Mechanical Drawbacks - twice during two-week time-lapse filming the camera was heard to hiss as it fried the tiny button fuses, both after several months of continuous 30 second power cycling of the time-lapse, The fuses are inexpensive but replacement requires a complete disassembly to access the motherboard behind the LCD flip panel. The most reported failure is tape transport load/eject - don't leave tapes loaded long term or during storage and keep all those tiny screws tight - and check the trv350 dot angelfire dot com site for the percussive maintenance of last resort to get this great HandyCam running again! Compared to other equipment I film with, the camera is robust, having stood up to touristy neck strap related collisions and trip/falls as well as lower cost of ownership, repair and maintenance, with the most rapid return to service.
Recording Drawbacks - because of the nature of the digital processing, some features preempt others, such as recording in 16:9 720p uses the over-scan image area which steady-shot also samples to stabilize the image so the 16:9 setting temporarily overrides steady-shot. Other digital conflicts allow only one effect at a time, and exposure conflicts can preempt other exposure settings. Most settings are retained at power down while many manual menu settings can be reset by changing mode from tape camera to digital or VCR. The tape heads spinning more than five minutes will power them down which which helps prevent tape burn but also wipes the efforts of setting up a complex shot - to avoid that frustration just tap the red record button twice during set-up to reset the timer,
3D - Using the InfraRed Commander remote has allowed me to synchronize the cameras side by side for excellent snapshots and filming in 3D. Set both zoom out to wide and turn off auto focus helps to avoid image discrepancy.
When the clock is properly set, the time-stamp and iris/exposure are digitally encoded in the data stream of the Digital8 tape recording, not on the image. This allows the playback viewer to toggle the time/date display on and off. Editing alters that time-stamp, so the recording can be admitted as evidence because edits are easily discernible.
Relative to other formats, the Digital8 media can be both high quality and inexpensive. Entire movies captured with these cameras have been exhibited in theaters, and even fooled experts into believing the negative was on film by using the Flash digital effect or sepia and slim Picture effects. I like the 16:9 format through a letterbox matte with Slim Picture Effect which convinces folks I've used a Todd-AO anamorphic lens for Ultra-Wide Screen filming.
I carry iPad and iPhone and this camera. iOS zooms by cropping which degrades the image, but zoom in to a planet at night with this camera and the crescent is sharp. My father was a cinematographer and taught me to always be handy to instantly capture the action, from the momentary mildly intresting to the firetruck approaching. With iOS I get the firetruck leaving, but with the TRV350 I zoom in as it approaches, zoom out to full frame as it passes and tighten in to a fade in the distance. This camera makes me a one-man pro news crew.
I'll gift you plenty of mattes, frames and backgrounds as well as teach you to make them at trv350 dot angelfire dot com download over 200 individually or grab the .zip archive and load them onto your Memory Stick.
For planned production and candid capture the TRV-DCR350 is my go-to workhorse.
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