Sony HDR-TG1
 

Has anyone used a pair of Sony HDR-TG1 High Definition Handycam Camcorders for 3D work? As Handycams, they are not professional camcorders. What, however, seems nice about them for 3D work is their 32 mm width, which means you could easily place two of them next to each other and have plenty of room to adjust their distance.

Though I see no synchronization capabilities in their description.

Just trying to build something similar to what Pavel describes here but on a budget.

well the TG1 is becoming pretty old now, so i think you can find newer camera with same kind of feature for less money and better performance today. (and specially for the fact that 3D require 2 cameras).
i had no problem with far thicker cams like the sanyo FH1.
And take in account that anyway, with a side to side mount, one of the cam will have the lcd (wich open usually to the left) blocked.
that looks not so important, but for example on the FH1, the camera does not power up with the LCD closed. Fortunately you can flip it.
another way to avoid this problem is to mount camera side to side but one flipped up.
you will have to flip the video in post but lots of 3d mount use this trick.

The flippable LCD is one of the reasons I thought it might be good for 3D. Thanks.

if you go for realtime monitoring there is another parameter to check.
some cameras (most) have the plugs and some commands hidden behind the lcd.
since the camera are pretty close and you will probably not able to open one of the LCD, this could be a concern.(at least it is on the Sanyo FH1).
It can be solved sometime by making a custom cable, but most of these small camcorders use multi-purpose, strange shaped connectors.

Giroud is correct. That is one of the reasons why I used camcorders with viewfinders. At the CES, the Canon guy told me that all their camcorders can be controlled with the finder closed. That has to be tried with other brands, because the specs never mention such detail. Camcorder Info has sometimes more data. Some camcorders can be controlled with IR, even with the lcd closed and no viewfinder. I believe that someone mentioned such thing about the Sanyo's, but I may remember wrong. Some have unfortunately the power button under the screen, so even if you can control them with IR, they had to be first turned on out of the mount, then inserved and controlled. That is a pain. I don't know about the particular model you asked about. Try to look over YouTube. Someone always reviews the camcorders there. You can message that person if one can control the camcorder with the screen closed. This is my $0.05 worth. PS. I don't see any IR port or Lanc port on it either, and accordint to the descroption, everything is controlled on the screen,
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content...view-35556.htm ,
personally, I'd look at something else.

All right, thanks. I shall look somewhere else.

my 2nd choice would have been canon hf100, all is perfect on this cam , except price.
external power +video out on the back
power button on the top
small enough
good video quality, low light ok.