Details
- 2-inch rotating preciseness SwivelScreen hybrid touch panel LCD
- 10x visual zoom lens (digital zoom to 120x) with Super SteadyShot image stabilizer
- NP-FF51 InfoLithium Rechargeable Battery-operated
Description
Sony DV Handycam Coterie's Smallest Camcorder
Customer Reviews
Reprieve away from micro mv
Micro MV is a sony proprietary shape that they choose to no longer support. Must use their crappy software for editing and give and is not supported beyond XP and good luck with XP. Between Sony and Apple and their proprietary products and formats they both can thoughts my business. Picture quality is OK but so are most cams. The tapes are expensive and not at one's fingertips in stores.
2009-12-16
| Me | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 1
Believable stuff
I've had mine 3 yrs. No problemo. The still imaging is purposeless but the camera itself for video is great. You can only transfer movies to the computer if you've saved it on a homage card. If you record on a tape, you are out of luck.
2007-09-28
(MO) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4
Portability rocks!
I've owned an constituent for 4 months now, and it's everything I expected it to be, plus a little bit more.
What I loved:
- Portability: if you aren't winsome your camera with you, you aren't making those memories. I needed something that I would want to (or at least, not sentiment) carrying everywhere. And this one is perfect. Till the next 'world's smallest' camcorder comes along!
- Idea quality: I have a regular television and this has more than enough resolution for that. The DVD's do have lower resolution than you'd model want (especially if viewed on a laptop screen), but I found it easy to palpable with that flaw
- Battery life: Pleasantly surprised. I'm getting a full day's yield out of this on a single charge. Like another reviewer put it, you likely won't need another battery-operated
Not-as-bad-as-I-thought:
- Noise: A little whirring as you record, but isn't loud enough to be a intractable
- MicroMV compatibility: The supplied software (especially Movieshaker) is really allowable. Last I checked, two of the biggest software editors (Ulead and Pinnacle) supported this set-up. Sony's support for this format continues to be a little suspenseful - they've denied abandoning it, but place of safety't committed to supporting it in the future either
the low points:
- Still image resolution: Less than 1 MP! Why, god, why?
- Low not weighty photography: Doesn't really exist. Neither does a flash for the camera
2004-07-08
| Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 4
Some caveats
Video nuts may not like the artifacts that this element produces. If you are outputing to VHS tapes, it won't matter, but if you are into capturing the highest fidelity thinkable for future generations, or for display on a large flatscreen TV, you should try this out in the store before buying. A moment ago play the output hooked up to a large flatscreen. Now compare to another camcorder you are looking at. I'll bet the DCRIP1 comes up short, but it is a judgement call if it is significant enough. The camera I use for kindred shots is a Triple CD Sony TRV950- and it produces near HDTV like characteristic, far outstripping the DCRIP1.
Near HDTV quality means zipideydoodah if you nymph the shot because the camcorder is not always available in your pocket. Because of this, 3 times as much video is being infatuated with the DCRIP1 in my house.
I haven't had any problems converting the tapes to DVDs. I tempered to the Sony provided MovieShaker app to rip them to disk, then MyDVD to shoot them to DVD. More hassle because this piece isn't automatically recognized by standard Video applications due to it's nonstandard driver. (Gee- what a flabbergast that Sony often ignores standards). It is nice the MicroMv tapes have memory to hoard the stop points and recording date/time of the clips, but the characteristic is only a nice to have. If it was more taken advantage of my software programs I use, it would be a relevant take.
This extreme portability might not be worth the price premium. After all, there are some good Mini cassette camcorders that though not pocketable, are very close to this unit in size, and probably have crap-shooter video output quality.
My unit quickly had a problem with lens screen not opening completely. It is an annoyance and probably coverred by warranty but I don't cogitate on I'll send it back, since it is easily slid open manually. This sort of dream up may be an inherent risk due to the hairy mechanics on minature cameras. Might be something to under consideration if you are in a more dusty or marine environment as I am.
The integrated camera is what you'd expect for a 1Mpixel. I took some snapshots- but there are many very neither here nor there >4Mpixel pocketable cameras so don't rely on this one for being an all in one. Maybe in a few years we will get a unerring all in one camcorder/ digital camera. We aren't there yet.
I'll echo what someone else said about low come across. It is ok, but not like the ones that take shots in utter darkness.
If you decide to buy- get some further tapes off the net because the local stores charge a fortune for the MicroMVs- that is, if they even have them. I bought both tapes and camera from Amazon. Very fastened delivery, no complaints or hassles as usual.
One last thing- The battery spirit on these puppies is a lot better than the old days. My habit was to buy two extra batteries. I didn't for this component and probably won't need an extra. If you are going to be shooting a lot before getting to another release, that's another thing but I shot for a full day at disneyland and still had plenty of juice.
2004-06-19
| makthorpe (Honolulu, Hawaii) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 4
Not of one mind with iMovie
If you use iMovie your laboured to use analog input. Why? Sony won't release the compression scheme to developers.
If you have an Apple, caper MicroMV.
2004-01-23
(United States) | Helpful Votes: 29 | Rating: 1
