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Consumer Guide Digital Camcorder <br/>Expert Reviews
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video must be worth a million. Compare features across a variety of models with our expert reviews. Not sure what features you should be looking for? Read the Digital Camcorder Buying Guide to learn everything you need to know.
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Digital camcorders offer the best video and audio quality, and prices are lower than ever. To ensure you get the best price without sacrificing performance, compare prices online before you buy. We've stacked up shopping deals from retailers across the Web so you can easily compare prices on digital camcorders.
How Camcorders Work
If you're looking to delight your friends with hours of your vacation footage in prime, digital form, there's no time like the present. Camcorders have gotten small enough to fit in a pocket. Find out about the technology used in digital camcorders and how traditional camcorders work.

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DV Camcorders
Canon DC230 Photo
The Canon DC230 offers more features and better video quality among their line of DVD camcorders. Read more in Consumer Guide's review. ...

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$330.00 - $449.00
Canon DC220 Photo
The Canon DC220.is an entry-level DVD camcorder with great handling and widescreen shooting mode. Read more in the review at Consumer Guide. ...

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Stores Selling: 3
$249.00 - $399.00
Panasonic VDR-D310 Photo
The Panasonic VDR-D310 is a high quality DV camcorder that offers all the convenience of the DVD format. Learn more in Consumer Guide's review. ...

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Stores Selling: 4
$440.00 - $614.00
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Canon GL2 Mini DV Camcorder Photo
Digital, Mini DV, NTSC, 3 x CCD, Up to 1.68 Megapixels Still Shots, 20x Optical Zoom, 2.47 lb. ...
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$1485.00 - $2799.00
Canon HV20 HDV Camcorder Photo
Digital, HDV, 10x Optical Zoom, 1.2 lb. ...
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Stores Selling: 4
$680.00 - $1186.00
Canon DM-XL2 Mini DV Camcorder Photo
Digital, Mini DV, 3 x CCD, 20x Optical Zoom, 5.31 lb. , Battery life: Up to 3.83 Hours ...
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Stores Selling: 10
$3300.00 - $4247.00

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Digital Camcorder FAQ

Video editing allows you to create studio-quality movies right from your home. There are a million different ways to do video editing. The good news is that, with just a digital camcorder, a computer and a piece of video editing software, you can create video masterpieces. Learn more about video editing.
There are a lot of things involved in showing theatrical movies on a television because movies and television are very different mediums. Movie film is a very physical medium. It's exactly like the film in your still camera in that it records visual information with chemical reactions on special material. Learn more about video formatting.
Most people who own a camcorder also own a stack of tapes with hours of shaky, jarring video footage. To the typical amateur cameraman, this is an inevitable part of handheld video or film: When you move while you're shooting, the camera seems to pick up your body's every jolt and shake no matter how hard you try to keep it level. Learn more about Steadicams.

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How Camcorders Work
How can such a little device do so much? Explore traditional analog camcorders and learn about the technology used in digital camcorders in this HowStuffWorks video.

Home Movie Making
Simply upload your digital video content, or send them your analog video tapes, and they will encode and stream it back to you online where you can edit it. Learn about this easy way of making home movies in this episode of Technology Evangelist.

Sony HDD Smart Protection System
Watch as Sony engineers explain how they safeguarded Sony's Hard Disk Drive Handycam camcorders against data loss.



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