Capturing your family memories has never been easier.
Home video cameras have revolutionized the way families hold on to their important family moments. From birthdays to Christmas, a home movie camera can be a valuable tool in capturing all of your memories. As they evolve, home video cameras have gotten smaller and more convenient. The Sony Digital 8 Handycam comes in a few different models, including the DCR-TRV280. The Digital 8 Handycam is a piece of consumer equipment with many capabilities that can be easily mastered.
Instructions
Shooting Video
1. Turn on the camera. The Digital 8 has a dial on the back of the camera. The dial will be set to "Off" when you first get it. You can flip it to the record or playback function.
2. Put in a tape. On the bottom of the camera, you'll find a switch that says eject. When you move the switch over to eject, the camera will open so that you can put in the tape. Put in the tape with the rotary heads facing in, then just push the tape holder shut.
3. Take off your lens cap. Your Digital 8 Handycam will come with a lens cap. It may sound obvious, but many memories have been lost to the forgetfulness of a cameraman.
4. Hit record. The red record button is on the same dial that turns on the camera. You press it once to record. You press it again to stop recording.
Using Effects
5. Pull out the LCD screen. The Digital 8 Handycam comes with two sets of effects. The buttons for the effects options are behind the LCD screen.
6. Press the Picture Effects button to look through the options to spice up your camera's video.
7. Scroll through the Picture Effect options that include: black and white, mosaic, negative art, pastel, sepia, slim, solarize and stretch.
8. Select your effect by just pressing the Picture Effect button.
9. Press Fader Effects button to access the fader options that will put in transitions between your different shots.
10. Scroll through the fade effects that include fading to black, monotone, mosaic and white.
11. Select the fade you wish to use by pressing the Fader button again.
Outputting Video
12. Switch to the output mode. On the same dial that switches on the camera, you switch the camera to an output mode.
13. Remove the output cover. On the front of the Digital 8 Handycam, if you're staring at the lens, just to the left you will find the RCA cord outputs.
14. Open the LCD screen. Hidden behind the LCD screen are the play, fast forward, rewind and stop function so that you can control the playback.
15. Hook the RCA cords into the camera. The RCA ports are color coordinated. The yellow is the video. The red and white are the audio. Most RCA cords are color coordinated so that you can simply hook them into the appropriate port.
16. Hook the RCA cords into a television or other external source. Again, the RCA cords are color coordinated so that you can simply hook them into the appropriate port.
17.Turn to the input channel. If you're watching your footage on a television, you'll have to find the input channel. Once you do that, you're set.
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