What is the best HD camcorder from $500-$600?

Question

I'm looking to buy a new HD camcorder. I have a very very old JVC camera, which is unhelpful. Any direction on where to look will be most appreciated. (You will be "Best Answer" if I choose to buy the camera you led me to)

Answer 1

For your budget, there are no good hard drive (HDD) or high definition (HD) camcorders available unless you go down the "previously owned" path.

DO NOT GET A DVD based camcorder. They provide the worst available video quality of the common storage formats.

Next best video quality are hard drive and certain flash based units.

Best available video quality comes from miniDV tape based camcorders. They connect to your computer using the DV port on the camcorder and a firewire (IEEE1394a, i.Link are all the same thing) cable to the firewire port on your computer. If you don't have one, add one.

The best, least expensive HD (high definition) cameras are the Canon HV20, HV30, Sony HDR-HC7 and HC9.

Answer 2

i recommend canon hg10