Digital Camcorder

[Waldo]

Looking to buy one for X-Mas. Mine is an old vhs-c that needs to be retired.

Thinking of either a minidv, dvd, or hard-drive. Nothing HD/high $ as I'm not using it for production, just family and racing action.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

[Ricardo]

I have a jvc mini-dv and it gets the job done but I regret not getting a sony Ive been told they hold up better in the dirt. and stay away from the dvd type Ive heard nothing but bad things about them.

[j_reed87]

How much money are u willing to spend?
Cannon and Sony have great mini dv cameras. I would go with a Sony the are great I used on during my classes in film/art school. you can beat the crap out of them and they will still continue to work. But the more money you shell out the better. Hope this helps!

[djhspawn]

do you ever plan on putting your footage on your computer? Editing at all?

[Waldo]

do you ever plan on putting your footage on your computer? Editing at all?

Yes...not anything too high tech but we have a website that we'll want to through some vids on.

Thanks for all the input.