Sony DCRTRV120 Digital Camcorder | 
| Brand: Sony
Category: Photography
This item is no longer available
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 16218
Platforms: Windows NT, Mac, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 4, Windows NT 5, PowerMac, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server, Mac OS X, Mac OS 9 and below, Windows
Media: Electronics
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Optical Zoom: 25
Display Size: 2.5
Compatibility: PC Firewire
Maximum Aperture: 1.6
Maximum Focal Length: 92.5
Minimum Focal Length: 3.7
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.1
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 10.8 x 7
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: DCR-TRV120
Model: DCR-TRV120
UPC: 027242565920
EAN: 0027242565920
ASIN: B00004WZPY
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| Features:
| • | Digital 8 format | | • | 25x optical zoom and 450x total zoom | | • | IEEE 1394 (FireWire) interface | | • | SteadyShot electronic image stabilization | | • | NightShot infrared system |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The Sony DCR-TRV120 uses the Digital 8 format, which digitally records images onto standard Hi8 tapes. If you're upgrading from an 8mm or Hi8 camera, this format gives you the combined benefits of digital image quality and backwards compatibility with your old tapes.A 25x optical zoom and 450x digital zoom will bring your shots closer, and Sony SteadyShot image stabilization technology will help to keep shakes and wobbles out of your video. For audio, the DCR-TRV120 offers 16-bit PCM digital stereo with 12-bit dubbing. If you prefer to shoot in the 16:9 widescreen ratio, this is also an option. To compose your films, you can use either the standard eyepiece viewfinder or a 2.5-inch swivel color LCD display. With Sony's LaserLink feature, playback can be a snap--you just aim the DCR-TRV120 at the LaserLink receiver on select Sony TVs from up to 16 feet away, press play, and enjoy your videos directly on your TV--without wires or cassette adapters. If you're planning to digitally edit your videos on your computer, the Sony includes an industry standard IEEE 1394 port (also known as iLink and FireWire) for image transfer, and a Control-L (LANC) interface for connection to editing equipment. Sony's Super NightShot infrared system lets you capture footage in two modes. In standard NightShot mode the camera uses available visible and infrared light to illuminate the subject. With Super NightShot, an infrared LED on the front of the camera acts like an infrared spotlight: to the naked eye, it just looks like a standard red LED, but it produces enough infrared light to effectively illuminate the area in front of the camera. The camera includes numerous extra features, including 14 picture effects and a five-mode audio-video fader, end search (which automatically forwards your tape to the end of the last footage shot), edit search, seven-mode program auto exposure, pass-through analog AV inputs, and an intelligent shoe for accessories.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 13
 High Quality Camcorder! January 15, 2009
K. Lee
I recently purchased this to replace my old Canon Hi8 camcorder. I've been always the fan of Canon camcorder but this is very solid and high quality camcorder. I have lots of old 8mm & Hi8 tapes and this is a great camcorder to transfer them to DVD or upload to PC (since this camcorder is Digital8). Being able to digitally transfer your old 8mm & Hi8 tape to PC is a great function to have. This also has amazing Zoom and very good video quality. I am very satisfied with the purchase.
Reliable Digital Camcorder had Good Features for the Price July 3, 2006
Ayrton S. (Colorado)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We got this camcorder back in 2000 and it is still serving us reliably. This has captured hundreds of hours worth of tape over the past 6 and a half years and it is still going strong.
The digital 8 format has proven to be very useful because you could use regular 8mm tapes on it. There have been occassions when we were in foreign places that didn't have miniDV tapes, but did have 8mm or Hi-8 tapes for sale. Plus, it records digitally so transferring to a PC for editing via firewire is easy.
This was good technology at the time we got it but, as with any electronic gadget, improvements happen all the time. Thus, it is time to upgrade our technology so we are planning to get a new camcorder soon (probably a Sony HDV model). However, we will still keep this one to be able to play and edit our mountain of memories shot on Digital8.
 Great Camera, not Good Exposure Control July 3, 2006
I am 12 years old. I got this camera for my birthday, it's a really good camera, great quality, great effects, the only problem is that it dosen't have good exposure control. When ever i put the exposure setting on automatic, and put the camera in a kind of sunny spot, the camera dosen't control the exposure. The picture looks a little to bright when you plug it in. Otherwise, its a great camera because its got a great zoom distance, its big, so you can't shake it as much, and it's great for kids who want to make movies, like me.
-Drew Medak
 mine jams too! December 8, 2004
robd (San Jose, CA USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have had the same problem another reviewer mentioned. The tape will stop moving and the indicator flashes the icon for 'tape end' even though it's not at the end. This has happened to me both in recording and in playback. Then, when you try to eject it, it doesn't open all the way - it gets stuck midway so that you can't get the tape out, and you can't push the thing closed. The only way I've figured out how to move beyond this is to unplug and plug in the AC cord while you've got the camera turned on - sometimes SOMETIMES this works, until the next time it does it. Curiously, another camera I use at work, the TRV 58 (which is the same body but only HI 8, not digital) - has done the same thing to me.
This is the second problem I've had with this camera. When I first bought it, the colors were strange. Reds were extreme and off. I had to take it to SONY twice before it started looking okay. The images have been pretty good since then.
I used to be 'lucky' enough to have a SONY place near by that I could take it to. Now I'm asked to ship it a pay a lot just to have it looked at. Since then, I've bought a Canon ZR 60 that's pretty decent, but I don't love it. (Loading and unloading the cassette from underneath is a pain.) I'm envious of all the people who say how wonderful their camcorder is. The TRV 120 has been a pain since I got it.
What really bothers me is that, once you've plunked down the money, you're stuck with what you've got. If there's a problem, you send it away and you're without a camcoder for awhile. Then when the problems recur, it's the same old story. There ought to be a lemon law for camcorders.
Excellent camera. No complaints March 27, 2004
St. Chris (Browns Mills, NJ USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I got one of these used a few years ago after doing some research into the features and reputations of similar cameras. I've had no problems with it.
Video quality is excellent, and it works seamlessly with iMovie, which I use for editing.
I disabled the digital zoom (which degrades the picture quality); 25X optical zoom is already impressive, especially with the SteadyShot camera-shake compensation.
The camera operates surprisingly well with low light, even without engaging NightShot.
The "digital still photo" feature on any video camera is essentially a gimmick, so I'm not counting this camera's poor still-photo quality in my rating. Even the cheapest pocket digital camera will take a better still photo than a high-priced video camera -- so hey, buy a used DV camera and get yourself a cheap still camera to go with it.
I've found Digital-8 highly convenient, because I can get Hi-8 tapes in many stores that still don't carry MiniDV tapes.
I only wish the camera were super-tiny, but hey, it's not a cutting-edge supercamera -- it's a good, solid camcorder. Works for me!
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