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Sony TRV900

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1998 Video Camcorders: Sony miniDV TRV900  ~

TRV900 camera unit really has 530 lines of resolution live, and 500 lines in playback.

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TRV900 built-in lens has a 35-mm equivalent

-- http://bealecorner.com/trv900/ |
-- http://bealecorner.com/trv900/notes3.html |
Subject: Film Look with TRV900
I bought my camera a couple of months ago. It's been a real joy. I am in competition with several filmakers like myself who have gone Mini DV instead of film. The others use The Canon XL-1 and the VX1000. I've seen the footage and it ain't much different if at all. All of us film purists are searching for the "film look."

One thing I have discovered and it's pretty simple is that if you use
the flash effect at it's lowest setting, you can get the kinetic look of film.
-- you can apply it on playback
-- shoot straight up video
-- apply the black and white effect
-- coupled with the flash effect on playback into the Mac
-- then crush the blacks
-- give the image a tonal range similar to film

I'm sure others have discovered this effect, but I haven't seen it published on your page. The great thing about this effect is, that you can apply it on playback. I am shooting a movie with this camera in straight up video, and I am applying the black and white effect coupled with the flash effect when I dump it into my computer. I will then crush the blacks, to give the image a tonal range similar to film. I sure would like to find a "film look" forum. If you know of any, please let me know. Thanx, Hal W. Dowdy 1999

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~ Audio Adapter ~

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Our DXA-2s adapter is ideal for the Sony TRV900 camcorder. This is our basic and lowest cost adapter to attach professional microphones to your camcorder for superior audio.

If you need phantom power to power your microphones, then our DXA-6 or DXA-8 would be ideal. If you let me know what mics you will be using, I will be able to recommend the appropriate adapter.

Cheers,
Harry Kaufmann
Product Specialist
416-690-9457
BeachTek
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tel: 416-690-9457 - Fax: 416-690-0866
site: http://beachtek.com |

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TVR900 Audio | mics | Studio 1 | SignVideo | XLRPro | Location Sound |

The A/V line level input is active only in VCR mode. In camera mode (recording video through the lens) you can only use the mic jack for external audio signals. If you have an external line-level source, you need an attenuator (some XLR adaptors will do this.)

The TRV900 has a stereo minijack for an external stereo mic. The left and right channels are separate so you could use two separate microphones. You can connect to an external mixer, mic preamp, or other line-level source.

The stereo minijack TRV900 mic input features so-called "plug-in power" which means the camera injects a few volts of bias on the mic input, which can power some small consumer-type electret mics that don't have their own battery (although most do have batteries anyway). This is a feature common on Sony cameras and recorders. It is NOT the same as, and not to be confused with the +12 or +48 V "Phantom" power which is used for powering professional condensor-type mics on balanced lines (typically with XLR connectors). In any event the XLR adaptors referenced above use transformer coupling, so the TRV900's mic input DC bias does not reach the external source and does not affect it.

Full-sized PCMCIA flash cards are rare and expensive, so what everyone uses is either a "compact flash" card, or a (Sony proprietary) "memory stick" in a PCMCIA adaptor. 

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SAC-PC2 | PC Card Adapter | Sony MSAC-PC2 Memory Stick PC Card Adapter. The Sony PC Card Adaptor allows you to access images stored on a Memory Stick, Smart Media or Compact Flash Memory Card through a PC card slot. It provides a PC Card ATA Interface Standard with true IDE Standards and also accepts all Type II PC cards.

There is a small slide switch labelled "Memory Release" on the bottom surface of the camera near the tripod mount point. This is connected to an internal mechanical lever which ejects the PCMCIA (PC Card) flash card from the camera's memory slot, if any is inserted.

The progressive scan mode does not invent any pixels, giving you a sharper image. If you have a firewire card you get DV data from the camera which is (always) 720x480, rectangular (non-square) pixels. 99.99% of all computer monitors use square pixels so you'll have to readjust it to 640x480 for the aspect ratio to be right anyway. PAL s 720x576 through firewire, but still 640x480 for JPEG stills. 

Peter McLennen : http://student.vfs.com/~peter/ | A singular advantage of the TRV900 is its ability to shoot high quality still images at 15 frames per second. Without it, capturing fast moving subjects like this is mcuh more difficult. Selecting the best frame from dozens of so-so images is a such a pleasure that it almost feels like cheating. Panoguide |

The PAL version of the camera is properly called the DCR-TRV900E ("E" for Europe, perhaps) although many people still refer to it as the TRV900 for short. The NTSC version records video using 480 lines of 720 pixels at 60 fields (30 interlaced frames) per second. The PAL version records 576 lines of 720 pixels at 50 fields (25 interlaced frames) per second. France and Russia actually use a third video standard called SECAM but, as far as I know, there is no TRV900 model which uses that format.

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Sony GV-D900 Video Walkman | for miniDV playback

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Sony RM-95 Remote for TRV900

March 9, 2006 on eBay  ~ $87.00

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