![]() You can disable the beep with the Sony’s menu system, but I found it useful enough to leave on. The result is a bit garbled, but it can help you locate edit points based on the audio program.Īn audible beep sounds when you start or stop recording, helping to avoid that embarrassing “I didn’t know it was recording” footage. The TR700 is unique in that it allows you to hear audio in the 2x forward play mode. These include forward/reverse frame advance and forward/reverse 2x play. The infrared remote is the key to the Sony’s advanced transport modes, as many of the buttons fall on the remote only. You can’t hold down fade to record black, but you can achieve the same effect by manually closing the iris down. One is the traditional black, the other mosaic. The CCD-TR700 has two fade modes, both linked to the record trigger. ![]() Other controls fall outside the sliding door, on the infrared remote, or in the Sony’s on-screen menu. Like iris and exposure, white balance returns to auto mode when you close the sliding door. White balance modes include continuous auto, hold, indoor and outdoor. What does twilight mode do? As near as I can tell, it simply reduces the iris in low light situations to reduce gain noise–shutter speed stays locked at 1/60th. High speed shutter locks exposure at 1/4000th for freezing fast action. Portrait mode varies shutter speed up to 1/2000th of a second sports goes as high as 1/500th. The Sony’s four auto exposure modes set shutter speed to control image sharpness and depth of field. This is as good a manual iris system you’ll find on any compact camcorder. A knurled ring near the sliding door adjusts iris, with an indicator in the viewfinder showing its position. Manual iris is absolute, meaning it holds one iris setting regardless of changes in lighting conditions. If you must make adjustments, you’ll know right away.Ī sliding door on the left side of the TR700 covers buttons for manual focus, manual iris, program auto exposure modes and white balance. Underneath the viewfinder are recessed controls for hue, color and brightness.Īnother big bonus of color viewfinders is the ability to check white balance at a glance. Colors are rich and natural you forget almost instantly that you’re looking through a viewfinder, much more so than with a monochrome display. The Sony’s LCD color viewfinder is plenty sharp for consistent manual focus, delivering about 250 lines of horizontal resolution. It seems Sony’s improved Steady Shot since its introduction it now does a better job with quick jitters or vibrations. It’s amazing how much easier it is to manual focus on a subject that’s not shaking all around the frame. The Sony system works extremely well, canceling out even severe camera shake with no loss of resolution. Steady Shot optical image stabilization moves a portion of the lens assembly to actually steer the incoming light. Both are very usable, though I can’t help wonder why Sony didn’t opt for more speeds on the TR700. The rocker has two very distinct positions so it’s easy to select and stay on a given speed. The Sony has two zoom speeds, one nice and slow and the other quite fast. If only all inner focus lenses were so well designed. You can shoot subjects just three feet away with full telephoto, giving a compressed, distant look to small objects. It locks in fast, with almost no autofocus shimmer. ![]() Most inner focus systems don’t allow this focusing technique.įull-range autofocus works without a hitch from infinity to about 1/4-inch. It’s as smooth and responsive as any focus system–you can even zoom in tight to focus, backing out to frame the shot. A large, knurled focus ring sits right where you’d expect it, around the lens. The TR700’s lens offers all the control of an outer focus design with the reduced size of an inner focus system. And rightly so: this little unit boasts numerous niceties, including a 10x multispeed zoom lens, color viewfinder, optical image stabilization, a full complement of manual controls and rewriteable consumer (RC) time code support. Sony’s latest camcorder, the Hi8 CCD-TR700, reigns as new king of the Handycam line.
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