that far away, its size is likely irrelevant. But if you think the camcorder needs to be small, then that is your requirement. I would suggest not going the hard disc drive route for the camcorder - the Canon HF M series has a mic jack and manual audio control - and used flash memory to record the same very compressed AVCHD MTS files.
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