HD Camcorders

Home recording has come a long way since the days of the old cine-cam. But what goes around comes around, so it should come as no surprise that the cine cam is back. Well, sort of. The faux cine cam stylings of some of the latest camcorder models are a fun reminder of just how we’ve come in thirty years or so. Of course they’re ultra light, full of indispensable features like digital image stabilization systems and they shoot in High Definition compressed HDTV video. All in all, they’re light years ahead, but it’s still nice to see them referencing the classics!

Let’s face it: HD is revolutionizing TV and DVD, and it’s already taken the camcorder market by storm. HD camcorders are tumbling down in price, while the specifications just keep rising. It’s hard to keep track of all the latest developments, but consumers can reckon on spending below a thousand pounds for a movie grade piece of recording kit. (And it’ll fit in your pocket!)

As HD camcorders get smaller and cheaper, more and more consumers are getting in on the action. At 1440 by 1080 lines of resolution, the HD format gives genuine motion picture quality at B-Movie prices. And at about 700 grams in weight, they’re truly effortless to carry; equally effortless to use (even one handed). That’s because manufacturers like Sony have been making ever more compact lenses; they’ve even gone so far as to reduce the number of circuit boards from five to two and lowering the number of total components by a thousand!

As an extra benefit; (your families and friends will truly appreciate this one); editing your footage is simplicity itself! So you can trim your holiday epics down to more manageable proportions of high clarity TV ready widescreen HD footage.

HD camcorders are the ultimate iteration of the human quest to make the best possible records of our lives and times. Better make sure you do it justice; this is the footage you’ll be showing your children’s children!