My weekly Webshow is filmed on a Canon ZR45MC Mini-DV video camera. I bought it almost a year ago for $600 and it has always done well. I could say something about the weenie little 1 hour battery that will BARELY last 50 minutes (but that's okay, you can spend MORE MONEY to buy a larger battery) but that's a minor point. The lens cap will fall off if you look at it the wrong way or breathe too hard on it, but that's also a minor point to me.
I was just in a Circuit City last week, and they had the Canon ZR70MC for the same $600.
Buy one of those.
My ZR45MC has FireWire, S video, speaker and microphone jacks in it. I guess those are standard these days.
This camera can take still photos, but I never used that feature, I have a digital camera for stills which I rarely use anyhow.
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