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From http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/video-capture/4144-best-camera-video8.html:

Best camera for Video8 tape playback?
04-25-2012, 03:49 PM
david151

I have a load of videos (mainly long play) that were recorder on an old Sony Handycam video 8 camcorder (model CCD-FX200E) Obviously these are the old Video8 format so are not even Hi8, or Digital8. Unfortunately I no longer have the original camera that recorded these so am looking for something that will play these back to give me the best playback quality possible for feeding into my ATI all in wonder capture card. From my research I gather it is not a wise choice looking for a video8 camera to do this as playback quality tends to lack quality, therefore I am looking for a suitable Hi8 or Digital8 machine for this task.

From other posts on this forum I gather the best Hi8 camera for the job would be one of the following:

CCD-TRV62
CCD-TRV65
CCD-TRV66
CCD-TRV70
CCD-TRV72
CCD-TRV82
CCD-TRV85
CCD-TRV87
CCD-TRV99
CCD-TRV101
CCD-TRV615 

My other option would be to get a Digital8 machine that will play my tapes. From another forum I found this list:

All Sony Digital 8 PAL (UK system) models. Models marked * will play old 8mm analogue PAL recordings made in Standard 8, HI8, in both (SP) and (LP) modes. All models marked * have switchable timebase correction.

DCR-TR7000E *
DCR-TR7100E *
DCR-TR8000E *
DCR-TR8100E *
DCR-TRV110E *
DCR-TRV120E *
DCR-TRV125E *
DCR-TRV130E
DCR-TRV140E
DCR-TRV145E
DCR-TRV147E
DCR-TRV210E *
DCR-TRV230E *
DCR-TRV235E *
DCR-TRV238E *
DCR-TRV239E *
DCR-TRV240E *
DCR-TRV241E *
DCR-TRV245E
DCR-TRV250E
DCR-TRV255E
DCR-TRV265E
DCR-TRV270E
DCR-TRV285E
DCR-TRV310E *
DCR-TRV320E *
DCR-TRV325E *
DCR-TRV330E *
DCR-TRV340E *
DCR-TRV341E *
DCR-TRV345E *
DCR-TRV355E *
DCR-TRV356E *
DCR-TRV410E *
DCR-TRV420E *
DCR-TRV430E *
DCR-TRV460E *
DCR-TRV461E *
DCR-TRV480E *
DCR-TRV510E *
DCR-TRV520E *
DCR-TRV525E *
DCR-TRV530E *
DCR-TRV620E *
DCR-TRV720E *
DCR-TRV725E *
DCR-TRV730E *
DCR-TRV738E *
DCR-TRV740E *
DCR-TRV820E *
DCR-TRV828E *
DCR-TRV830E *

Obviously I was attracted to the cameras on this list as they have the benefit of being more modern and playing more formats, however when looking at the instruction manual most of them say that the TBC / DNR is only avialable "When you play back tapes recorded in the Hi8/standard 8 system only" Does this mean the DNR / TBC is not available for my standard Video8 tapes? If this is not the case I don't think I would be interested in these models as I definitely want TBC and DNR. 

I am not really bothered about the digital converters in these cameras to firewire as I just want to go uncompressed into my All In Wonder Card to preserve maximum quality so definitely want something with TBC, DNR and S video with preferably stereo sound output (since I heard some camera models only have mono)

What are peoples view on the best camera for my requirements that was available for the European market (as I am in the UK) 

Thanks 
Dave


02-21-2017, 05:01 PM
enois  

NOTE: All the following is referred to PAL model.

The issue start because I have a DCR-TR7100 and the camera never convinced me; when playing analog tape, the image quality is lower than a recent Hi8 camera, so I have notice that in the menu of Digital8 camera there are no TBC or DNR items.
After having read many manuals, I'we found that the following Digital 8 model seems not have TBC/DNR for playing Hi8/8mm analog tape. So these models are not suggestet for capturing analog Hi8/8mm tape.

DCR-TR7000E
DCR-TR7100E
DCR-TRV110E
DCR-TRV130E
DCR-TRV140E
DCR-TRV145E
DCR-TRV147E
DCR-TRV210E
DCR-TRV245E
DCR-TRV250E
DCR-TRV255E
DCR-TRV265E
DCR-TRV270E
DCR-TRV280E
DCR-TRV310E
DCR-TRV410E
DCR-TRV510E

There may be other model witout TBC/DNR, but the others in the list in the firs post marked with * should have the TBC/DNR. Before buy a Digital 8 camera for analog capture, check the manual on internet.

Appunti, di Matteo R.

uhm se "legge male" suppongo tu stia riproducendo degli HI8o 8 col digital 8 dovresti vedere o non vedere. Di solito hanno tutte problemi sui condensatori SMD. Tieni conto che i nastri HI8 sono infernali, soprattutto gli ME (metallo evaporato) quindi impiastrano le testine continuamente. Riprova a pulire o mandami qui schermata della riproduzione, per capire se è un problema di RF teste o circuitale

è molto raro trovare una HI8 funzionante, per la solita storia condensatori elettrolitici che vanno in perdita spurgano sul pcb e si mangiano le piste

credo che la cosa migliore sia trovare una delle ultime, che non montavano più i maledetti condensatori incriminati, io ne ho una sola funzionante HI8, anche lei col TBC ma ancora col CRT nel viewfinder

le altre sono morte tutte e non ho nessuna voglia di ripararle, degli oltre 80 VTR che ho qui è uno dei formati che mi interessa meno

il problema e' capire quali sono le "ultime"...

pensavo fossero queste, che hanno firewire, per dire

ti dico la sigla delal mia unica superstite aspetta

sì, infatti penso sia così, le digital 8 sono le ultime 8

si chiama CCD-TR3100E

ovviamente uscite analogiche