Apologies in advance... camcorder advice required...

[MarcusL]

Evening all, I have used the seach facility but these things move on so quickly that I thought that I would pose the question, your comments would be greatly appreciated... I am looking to purchase a camcorder in preparation for the arrival of our first child. Budget is max of £750-ish but ideally looking to spend more like £5-600. Quite like the idea of HDD but open to suggestions, anyone have any recommendations? After decent quality plus relative compactness... Cheers in advance!

[kiwisr]

If you want quality then you should stick to tape. Both the DVD and HDD models lose a lot of quality by the way they are stored/compressed and they are much harder to edit.

Try and get a CMOS camera rather than CCD as this is obsolete technology.


This is meant to be very good :

http://www.simplydv.co.uk/Reviews/canon_hv20.html

[MarcusL]

Many thanks - much appreciated.