Sony DCR-VX2000 Mini DV Camcorder

Pros: Professional looks and picture quality, features
Cons: Price, supplied MemoryStick is only 4Mb, weight

The Sony DCR-VX2000 MiniDV digital camcorder looks cool. Fortunately, it has features that justify its professional looks.

The camcorder uses three HAD CCDs with more than a megapixel resolution (3 x 380,000) and an optical image...

Pros: Professional quality video, LCD monitor
Cons: Expensive for the home video tape enthusiasts, good for the professional.

I have been a cable TV producer for three years. During that time I have used a hand held cam corder as well as the more professional model cam corders that use full size S tape. Nothing comes close to the quality of Digital.

The S VHS tape...

Pros: Three-chip, 530 lines resolution, LCD monitor, awesome audio
Cons: Too expensive for the casual, non-Bill Gates home videgrapher

Sony brought the DCR-VX1000 camcorder to the market in 1995. A workhorse, this MiniDV camera dominated the three-chip* camcorder field. Sturdy and grey, sporting a utilitarian look, the VX1000 provided high-quality video image capture for everybody from...

Pros: Price
Cons: Color viewfinder

The Sony VX2000 is the older brother to the famous VX1000 a camera that has made its mark on the documentary and news gathering industry in a big way. That high mark has now been surpassed. I used the VX1000 to pick up some quick shots for our...

Pros: Sharpest picture in it's class, Great Lowlight, Relatively inexpensive
Cons: Some noise in manual audio gain, maybe to sharp, no replaceable lens

Well, OK, Sony's newest and bestest "pro-sumer" Mini-DV camcorder is out, the VX-2000 (along with the similar PD150, which has a B&W finder instead of the color one on the VX-2000, XLR audio inputs instead of mini-jacks, an accessory mono shotgun mic...

Pros: Very Easy
Cons: NONE

The handheld camcorders are good for on the road shots, but the quality isn't there and once a dub is made, the quality decreases even more. So in order to have a quality production it was necessary to invest in a high end model recorder. The digital...

Pros: Great CCD's, Sharp clear image, lightweight
Cons: No removable lenses

Sony is top of the game when it comes to consumer camcorders, but how about pro-sumer? Well the DCR-VX2000 shows exactly what Sony's got. This is the best of the best of Sony's DCR series. The big question that comes up with the Sony VX2000 is...

Pros: loving it
Cons: nothing!

The Sony is fantastic. It is very expensive, but it's features are incredible. The most interesting feature is the 3CCD(one for each color-red,green,and blue). I am also very impressed with its playback because of its progressive scan feature.
This...

Pros: Video quality, firewire, DVCam-DV setting, balanced audio, size, batter length
Cons: Focus ring, no true interchangeable lenses, viewfinder is not sharp enough

September 07, 2001

Ok, folks, I'm updating this review. The focus here will really be on the Sony PD-150, but much of what I say is applicable to the VX 2000

E-pinions only permits commentary on the VX 2000, but I am now using the...

Pros: A professional Quality Camcorder at a consumer price.
Cons: None that I can think of even at three grand it is a steal!

I have a Sony dcr-vx1000 and for two and a half years it was and still is an amazing camera. I have shot over forty different events from weddings to plays in those two years and never did my VX1000 fail me! I thought there is no way sony can make this...

Pros: Great improvement on VX1000, flip out screen, memory stick.
Cons: Somewhat cumbersome, expensive.

Having used the VX1000 for the past three years, I have had a love/hate relationship with the camera. It has great image quality, but it is rather clunky to use, lacks a flip-out screen, and was not convenient for taking stills. So you can be...

Pros: Low light ability, good picture quality, good sound quality
Cons: Too many features for the average user to care about

Background
This is the latest contender in the world of prosumer camcorders. It has some significant advantages over it's archrival - the Canon GL1. Most notable is it's performance in low light situations. This can be attributed to it's...

Pros: LCD monitor = great picture quality simply awesome audio
Cons: very expensive

Sony has loaded the VX2000 with some great features. This camera has progressive scan HAD 3CCD pickups. A CCD is what is used to pick up color light and convert it to electrical pulses, most low-end cameras have 1 CCD that handle all three colors (RGB =...

Pros: One monster of a vid-camera!
Cons: N/A

Everyone from Television producers to those hard-working Wedding recorders use the VX2000. Your local news might very well be shot on the 2000. It's an amazing camera with a lot of options.

Cost

The cost is around 3000...

Pros: great picture and lots of proffesional features
Cons: hard to adjust audio and exposure manually, small viewfinder

Let me start this out by saying I have owned this camera for about a week and these are just my first impressions of this camera. This is my first digital video camera. My previous camera was a Canon L1. The picture on this is phenominal when compared...