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A good camcorder without a digital camera???

by DGev Apr 24, 2005 9:19AM PDT

Is it possible to get an excellent camcorder without a digital camera feature? On one hand it looks like you pay a lot of money for that and I don?t really need it and on the other I could not find a good small camcorder that does not have it.
Does anybody knows of a great camcorder around the Canon Optura 60 or the Panasonic PV-GS250 neighborhood, either price wise with better features or with the same qualities and cost less?

Any lead will be appreciate
Thanks

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I'm not sure there are any

by tomh Apr 24, 2005 10:31PM PDT

It seems like the best consumer camcorders - the one with the best video quality, all have still capability. It doesn't have to be that way, but the manufacturers feel that to compete they have to include it.

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Not costly.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 24, 2005 10:46PM PDT

This is at most a firmware (software) feature and not much else. It's also part of the reason cameras don't make good video recorders and vice versa.

Bob

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