Retro Review // Vintage Sony Handycams In 2022! 

Do you have a more detailed tutorial on this?

yeah I had a FireWire cable for ours back in the day, the quality was great

Who cares what Sony called it, it was created by Apple and they called it FireWire. So it's FireWire. The only reason other companies had their own name for FireWire is because they could not use the trademarked term FireWire. It happens all the time. Probably the best example is the Walkie Talkie. The creator called it a walkie talkie, but Motorola created their own walkie talkie, and they could not call it a walkie talkie or legal reasons, so called their walkie talkies two way radios. Another great example that happened in the 1870s was Winchester created WCF ammo. Other companies could not use the name, so several companies called their ammo by different names, and most of those names stuck. Till this day Winchester is the only company that calls it WCF. For example 44WCF is known as 44-40, 30WCF is known as 30-30 etc. Most people have no clue 30-30 is actually called 30WCF. Even things like DVDs are not allowed to be used without permission. Sony and Philips own the name DVD, so every time a DVD or player sold, they would get a cut. You had to get permission from them to make DVD players and DVD movies. It is the same with HDMI. Every company that puts an HDMI port on any device, has to get permission and pay a fee. Nonetheless, that is why all the companies sometimes have different names for device ports. The funny thing is while they were all fighting over port names, they were all actually working together. Take MiniDV as an example. There was actually an HD version of MiniDV called HDV, and all the major companies got together and created and agreed on what the standard for it would be. The weird part is most of the companies decided against making 1080 MiniDV, but Sony and Canon did make 1080 MiniDV camcorders. It uses the same exact tape, but records in 720 and 1080.

Newbie question. I want the best hi8 cam what do you recommend?

@Jimmy Giron sony ccd trv37, tad expensive but extremely nice

Heck yeah man, hope you have blast with it!

WHAT YOU FOUND WHAT AT A THRIFT SHOP? BRO I JUST BOUGHT ONE FOR 200 DOLLARS🤬🤬😭

Me too!!!

Thank you man! I had a great time making this one

love you 2

where u buy it at ?

Thank you Charly!

Just pulled my fathers old unit out of storage as well, I ordered all the adapters to connect it to my MacBook. I can’t wait to start shooting some retro videos.

im using the same converter he's using in the video, but with a S-video out. It won't capture, I'm just getting a very fuzzy image when I try to capture with quicktime. Do you think this is a cable issue? Or should I be trying to capture a diifferent way?

@@mwashington13 see if the cable connects to another source like a tv and displays right.

You gotta get your hands on one man! I bet you can still use firewire, this USB converter is just so easy

@@connormccaskill Quality using FireWire should be much better, since it's a digital signal.

@@connormccaskill Like JOHN already said, you would get much, much better quality with FireWire. With FireWire you get an exact copy of the digital data on the tape while with those USB capture devices it will be converted from digital to analog and then back to digital. And in the video you used composite video (the yellow plug) which can't display all of the detail of Digital8/DV footage

And I also have a Sony dcr trv315 from 1999

hi

A fair question. The answer is no. Watch this excellent video by Markus Pix, he puts some of his camera collection to the ultimate heat test. Including camcorders. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f4bdYSoSx5k.html