last friday my school had its season opener and the athletic director let me cover the games for my basement tv channel

The Will To Live is a 2026 cinema verite documentary shot entirely with a 2005 JVC GR-SXM38U Camcorder that tells the story of 13 trailer park residents, nine adults and four children, struggling to survive amidst poverty and severe health issues including facial paralysis, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, mobility loss, alcoholism, drug addiction, heart failure, and throat cancer.

I blindbought this sony dcr trv740e pal camcorder and i have no idea if it's any good. I got it for around 80 euro.

I hadn’t found many posts in this group using this camera, thought I would share.
My abuelo gave it to me, he used to use it for their vacations and travels, hadn’t been turned on in at least 10 years.

My trv37 tapedeck was slowly going bad, i saw how fast it was to close the deck on the 517, my 37 was giving some errors and ejecting tape sometimes for no reason, so i dismantled both and swap the motherboard because i tried to just change the power chip and it didnt turned on the display, had to change the motherboard for that and i managed to swap the tape decks, so now i have a almost new tape deck again and the tr517 is 70% rebuilt but my beloved trv37 is back again, yayy (i was awake till 4am to do that whole process in 1 night)

2001 Sony DCR TRV820
At this point they were just adding shit to have an excuse to make these
more expensive

Some clips on my Sony DCR - TRV20

hello people im in dire need of help, i have a problem with my handycam, its a SONY DCR-HC28

i have a problem its the C:21:00

i know its about the humidity and the dew sensor, but ive had it drying for days and it does not work, ive tried to even smack it like some forums say to do, but to no avail, anyone know what to do?

The camera/camcorder is Sony Handycam HDR SR11

Other stuff include ( 1 cheap ass fisheye len, 1 cheap light and 3 camera stances )

Sadly I cannot find a mic that cheap enough to afford but I'd like to hear some yours idea

Thanks!

will shooting the sony sr12 in SD mode give the same feel as shooting with a sr75 for example or will it still look sharp and “modern”

Recently got into making found footage videos and films through blender and Virtual Reality. I want to get a real 1990s camcorder to record real audio such as talking through gas mask, walking, breathing, and camera movement so I can overlay it on my animations and recordings. I also want to use it for recording in real life that transition into animated scenes. Would be much appreciated for help and advice and where to get one, thank you

i got a sony dcr hc15 to transfer some of my old minidv tapes via firewire but i get a glitchy image and i already tried cleaning the heads with isopropyl alcohol and a4 paper but i noticed that it’s making a weird noise on the take up reel. in the video you can hear it.

I live on an island in the Caribbean so shipping these in is a real hasstle. Is there some way for me to bypass this error? If not then what kind of batteries do I need to buy instead of these?

Hey fellas, moving old handycam cds to digital, got couple done but having an issue with one dvd in particular. It's finalized. When i try to move the files in the cd to my mac over usb, i get errors before it finishes moving files. So i tried to capture video over a capture card but playback on camera is also not working properly. On certain parts, i'm getting stuck footage. It waits for around a minute then moves to the next recording.

Is there a way to recover this file? Precious videos, so if possible i'd pay for it.

In 2025, I shot and edited this video for my friends’ creative collective, Right of Passage (RoP).

All of the effects were created in-camera, using only my trusty Sony Handycam DCR-TRV210E.

Got a Panasonic AFx8 at a garage sale not too long ago and unfortunately the viewfinder is kind of messed up. The internet told me it could be bad capacitors, but the confusing thing is that all the capacitors I measured read fine on my multimeter, the AV out shows crystal-clear picture, and I can still see faintly picture showing through the viewfinder, as well as the words SLP and TAPE in camera mode. Can anyone please help? I really have no clue what’s wrong at this point. Any help is appreciated!

Setting up a standard definition streaming/recording setup for that 1990s/2000s look. Upscaled to 1080p60 - Blackmagic Analog to SDI, UpDownCross converter into a Hyperdeck and ATEM. This is peak 2002 with the Canon GL2 and the Panasonic AG-MX70 mixer. We’ll be doing some livestreams soon with a mix of 1980s to current day camcorders. Still pulling out some of our old gear as well as acquiring some “new to us” equipment.

Hi,

I have a Panasonic Palmcorder IQ (PV-IQ404D), it only has yellow and white RCA cables, no S-video.

I saw that the I-o DATA USB GV-USB2 was recommended as it can do S-video.

Since I don’t have S-Video, is there another recommended quality Analog to Digital convert usb?

Thank you for your time.