Sony DCR-DVD610 DVD Handycam Camcorder with 40x Optical Zoom by Sony
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Digital camera reviews of Sony DCR-DVD610 DVD Handycam Camcorder with 40x Optical Zoom
Digital camera Review: Issue with disc door
Summary: 1 Stars
I was given this camera as a gift in anticipation of the homecoming of my second-born. The camera never worked right and after 8 months of getting weird intermittent error messages and being unable to capture countless video-opps, the camera deleted my priceless Christmas footage. I finally sat down down to trouble shoot issue (Am mother of 2 under 3) and was advised by Sony Customer Service that the disc door must be loose and I should send camera to Sony for repairs. I was told this would cost 129$ as we were out of the warranty (although we only received the camera 8 months ago) Pretty pricey for a camera that never worked. I would not recommend this camera and will never buy Sony again. I hope noone ever gifts me Sony either!
Digital camera Review: Just for me.
Summary: 5 Stars
When you're going to buy a new camera there are a few questions you have to answer yourself in order to get the right one:
1. Why should I buy something with specific features if I don't have the appropiate devices?
2. What will I record? family videos? pro material?
3. Which transfer method do I prefer? Memory stick? DVD? traditional tape?
4. How long do you think you'll be recording by day? 1hr? 4hrs - are you sure?
5. Do you prefer to record outside - inside? Daylight - at night?
When you have the answers you can start to look for the new toy :)
My answers and decision:
- I don't have a high resolution tv and I guess I won't buy one of this at this moment, so, a very high resolution camera for me it's not useful.
- I want my camera for my "family life", I won't be recording the last madonna's music video. I don't need special lenses to expand the record - video quality.
- I like to capture at day and night. The night mode is very important for me.
- I don't like to have hundreds of disks around my room, you have to handle it with careful and it can be easily damaged. I prefer to keep all my stuff in my hard disk to play it every time I want without handling cases, cleaning a fingerprint, etc, then, the memory stick option is indispensable for my needs.
- Most of my shots will be walking, running, etc, so a image stabilization system is required.
- I don't think I will record a 6hrs long video. I'm making my digital album not a movie! So, a 2hrs life battery is enough for me, then it comes the memory stick, I got a 4GB - Sony.
In the last years technology is raising very fast with more expensive devices, people is buying without taking in mind the final use for things like this one. I know a couple of friends that recently bought a blu ray player and they connect it to a traditional tv!! Really stoopid, don't you think?
Well, let's see some nice features this camera owns:
1. Touchpanel - LCD. It lets you to handle all the functions easily - quickly. However you have to notice it'll consume more battery charge.
2. Steady Shot works well when there is enough light, of course, if you are jumping while recording is running a clear picture cannot be expected.
3. Microphone capacity is enough to record all sounds around. there is no interference when zoom in/out feature is used.
4. Video quality is very good but picture mode is really bad (my webcam works better than this), however I wanted it for video not for pictures. So, it's ok for me.
5. Battery included charges quickly.
6. Nightshot - infrared sys is good just keep in mind you have to be really close to the target.
7. When you're recording directly in the mini-dvd you have to hold it tight, otherwise you'll find picture noise in the final video.
As you can see this camera was my best option taking note of:
1. the price
2. features
3. Brand (it's not a secret you'll find better quality in sony devices).
I hope all this info can help you to decide the best device for you at this moment.
Digital camera Review: Like it a lot but leaves something to be desired
Summary: 3 Stars
I liked this Camcorder except I did not find it to be as easy to use as I'd hoped. I also did not like that there is no way to delete scenes of video shots. For that reason I only give it 3 stars. There should always be a way to delete video and scenes.Digital camera Review: Many Functions - buy good luck accessing them
Summary: 1 Stars
I believe a terribly written manual and equally poor customer service person was the source of my problems. My problem started with the memory stick. I inserted it and tried to record video to it. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the screen prompt as shown in the manual. I called Customer Service and waited patiently while the service rep. read through the manual. He certainly wasn't familiar with this model. Finally, he advised me that this model (DCR 610) is not able to record video to the memory stick - only still shots. At first this sounded plausable because the manual covers 3 different models and describes many exceptions for the different models. But due to the service rep's hesitancy, I wasn't totally convinced.
Later that day I sent an e-mail to SONY Customer Service with the same question about the memory stick(can you believe that SONY restricts written questions to 256 characters?). Later that night I was trying to find the function to record to disc and saw the screen prompt for the memory stick. I selected it and it "worked". The next morning I received an e-mail from Sony confirming that video can be recorded on memory stick. SONY also apologized for the misinformation I received.
Eventually I turned the camera over to my son as a gift. He was having more success with it than I until he tried to dub/copy video from the memory stick to a disc. He said he couldn't find the screen prompt as described in the manual.
I thought I might like this camera for myself, but it got to be too frustrating trying to make basic functions work. Both Canon and Panasonic have DVD Camcorders with approx. 40x zooms. I'll take a look at those.
Digital camera Review: My dad likes it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this camcorder as a gift for my father. He is an amateur in video, so I wanted a camera to be easy in use.
My father says he likes this SONY video camera very much. It has a really powerful zoom, and its video is good when recording both inside and outside. He understands the camera tools with easy.
Before writing this review I asked my father if he had any dissapointments with the camcorder. He said no, and he said he would not like to get any other camcorder. He likes this one!