Works great for about 5 minutes then shuts off

not usually, it is caused by under eposure make sure you have the settings of the ISO to a level that is complimetary to daylight

set it to 100 and to say scene and take a few pics. Donload them on to the PC and with the software look at the graph that accompanies each pic to see what is happening with th light factor. You can drag areas of the graph and the pic will alter on screen.
Perhapsa the shutter is not opening.. look in the lens and press the button to see if the shutter actuall opens and shuts

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Did try disconnecting battery or AC adapter and wait a few minutes then install power and turn on .See if it will eject

if you alsow get vibrationOn Sony T100 and similar,
its the vibration canceling unit, i had the same problem.
if you have good hads you can fix it.( on your oun risk)
1) disasamble the camera, you will see black plastic box inside, this is he lens unit.
2) on the botom you see 2 scrwes, they are holding the CCD remove them and the ccd unit will come from the lens assembly
3) the next is the stabilizer unit it is the problematic one. it is located on the left side of the lens asebly and is held by 2 screws.
you can test it by puling out the cable connected to it (the conector is just under the lens) and verifign that the problem is solved. ( you can leave it this way it will shoot fine just without the anti shake)
4) to fix it take it out ,remove the plastic cover, you see the lens on a plastic mount it should be glued to the magnet under it. the problem is that the glue fals apart.
remove one of the pins on wich it slides, and take the lens and the magnet out.
5) reglue the magnet and reasemble the camera.
6) power up and test, for me that solved the problem

if you need more help you can mail me at adisarit(et)yahoo(dot)com this is spam mail so be prepared to wait a few days for reply.
i have a document with pictures explaining it

Please click Sony Support to download free copy of instruction manual of CCD-TRV308

on the sony website it says the driver is already in vista and xp
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=CCDTRV608&SelectOS=29

I also have a SONY 460x Handycam Vision CCD-TRV68 NTSC video Hi8 Steady Shot not able to record a picture but will record audio, playback is the same. Unfortunatly this occured after warranty was out. Seems like this might have been a manufactors defect.

hummm, thats fine. go ahead n let me know of out come for knowledge ;)

I don't know how you can easily tell the spec for the anti-shake is working on your camera. There is a specific specification for how much it can compensate. There is a factory spec that specifies that with a specific lens magnification ratio, the camera can be moved a specific number of arc-seconds and display within a specific amount of movement error. At home it would be impossible to do a technical evaluation of this feature.

What you can do as a user is to read the instruction manual about the option and see how to make sure that it is turned on in the camera's menu section. It is possible that your model may not have the feature. This you have to check in the spec sheet that came with the camera.

When the anti-shake is turned on, you should see the picture appear to be more stable than when it is turned off. With high zoom settings, it will be less stable looking than with wider angles of zoom. It does have its limitations.

Professional photographers normally don't like the anti-shake feature for shooting videos. For still pictures it is a good feature if you want this type of performance. This is because with moving video taping when the camera is being panned in small motions, the smoothness of the pan is taken away. The stabilizer starts to work at the beginning of the pan and then it gives out in sort of stepping actions. This can create a sort of jerking type of pan motion in the pictures.

Jerry G.

download one here:
http://www.iq.sony.com/srvs/DocsConnect/docget.asp?manualid=7182&DL=true

I know this is an old post, but this sounds like a defective CCD imager. If so, Sony should fix this for you for free, including free shipping both ways. This is regardless of your camera's warranty status. Please check the following link for more info: http://camerarepair.blogspot.com/2007/11/sony-konica-minolta-cameras.html
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