All Camcorders • Budget • Flash Based • Top-of-line • 3CCD • Hard Drive • HD Camcorder • Around $500 • Mini DV Camcorders • DVD Camcorders • Under $400 • Sony • Canon • Panasonic • JVC • Samsung • Sanyo • Aiptek • Pure Digital • DXG
A hard disk camcorder stores video directly to an internal hard disk on the hard disk camcorder itself. Hard disks on hard disk camcorders can fill up fast especially in high definition mode so you'll need to transfer the video from your hard disk camcorder
Hard Disk Camcorder Specs: Standard Definition • Flash card • 34 x Optical Zoom • CCD Optical Sensor • Electronic Image Stabilizer • 460 Kpix Video Resolution • Built-in Light • Widescreen • LCD Viewfinder
Reviews | 40 expert reviews (rating 83 / 100) • 482 user reviews: "Feature-packed
True HD sho..." see more »
Reviews | 40 expert reviews (rating 83 / 100) • 482 user reviews: "Feature-packed
True HD shooting capability
Excellent overall performance...A bit on the heavier side
Night mode takes a while to focus...The former thinks it's done its bit simply by shooting at HD resolution, without giving the sharpness level and the overall picture quality that should come with it...The Canon HG10 belongs to the latter category...The HG10 opens up to reveal slots for everything, starting from a flash/accessory shoe on the top to the..."
see less »
Read Full Review » |
|
Hard Disk Camcorder Specs: High Definition • Hard disk drive, flash card • 12 x Optical Zoom • CMOS Optical Sensor • Optical (SuperRange) Image Stabilizer • 2.07 Mpix Video Resolution • Widescreen • LCD Viewfinder
Reviews | 16 expert reviews (rating 80 / 100) • 129 user reviews: "Excellent video quality; 120..." see more »
Reviews | 16 expert reviews (rating 80 / 100) • 129 user reviews: "Excellent video quality; 120GB hard drive; attractive, understated design; eye-level viewfinder....Wind filter not as dependable as previous Canon models; manual focus pretty useless....Other than that I am completely satisfied with this product...Tell us what you like about this product...Tell us what you don't like about this product......"
see less »
Read Full Review » |
|
Hard Disk Camcorder Specs: High Definition • Hard disk drive, flash card • 12 x Optical Zoom • Exmor R CMOS Optical Sensor • Optical (Steady Shot) Image Stabilizer • 4.15 Mpix Video Resolution • Widescreen • Electronic Viewfinder
Reviews | 5 expert reviews (rating 75 / 100) • 62 user reviews: "First-rate video quality and p..." see more »
Reviews | 5 expert reviews (rating 75 / 100) • 62 user reviews: "First-rate video quality and performance; geotagging videos is fun, if limited....Annoying menu system; no wind filter; no manual shutter-speed, iris, or audio controls; relatively big...Though their geotagging capabilities are mostly novelty and their interfaces could use a complete overhaul, the top-notch video quality, performance, and consumer-friendly feature sets of the Sony Handycam HDR-XR500V and HDR-XR520V make them worthy camcorder options...Both..."
see less »
Read Full Review » |
|
Hard Disk Camcorder Specs: Standard Definition • Hard disk drive • 60 x Optical Zoom • Advanced HAD CCD Optical Sensor • Electronic (Steady Shot) Image Stabilizer • 410 Kpix Video Resolution
Reviews | 111 user reviews: "Record those special occasions with the DCR-SR47 Handycam(R) camcorder...." see more »
Reviews | 111 user reviews: "Record those special occasions with the DCR-SR47 Handycam(R) camcorder...the picture on the SR47 is definitely better than the Sony sr45..."
see less »
Read Full Review » |
|
Hard Disk Camcorder Specs: High Definition • Hard disk drive • 12 x Optical Zoom • ClearVid CMOS Optical Sensor • Optical (Super Steady Shot) Image Stabilizer • 3.81 Mpix Video Resolution • Widescreen • Electronic Viewfinder
Reviews | 24 expert reviews (rating 78 / 100) • 374 user reviews: "Huge storage capacity
..." see more »
Reviews | 24 expert reviews (rating 78 / 100) • 374 user reviews: "Huge storage capacity
Excellent video quality...High price tag
Records only 60i video...Our jury testers awarded a rating of Very Good to video that the HDR-SR12 captured under standard lighting, noting that it showed just a bit of color shifting...The built-in microphone captured good 5.1 surround and two-channel stereo audio during testing out in the field...The HDR-SR12's camera control dial,..."
see less »
Read Full Review » |
|
Hard Disk Camcorder Specs: High Definition • Hard disk drive, flash card • 12 x Optical Zoom • 3MOS Optical Sensor • Optical (Advanced O.I.S.) Image Stabilizer • 2.07 Mpix Video Resolution • Widescreen
Reviews | 1 expert review (rating 70 / 100) • 30 user reviews: "High-quality video; solid perfo..." see more »
Reviews | 1 expert review (rating 70 / 100) • 30 user reviews: "High-quality video; solid performance; broad manual feature set....Touch screen not responsive enough...While the company replaced the awkward ring-based manual operation with an equally awkward touch screen, the improvement in video quality and performance make these a far better bet...Tell us what you like about this product...Tell us what you don't like about this product......"
see less »
Read Full Review » |
|
Hard Disk Camcorder Specs: High Definition • Hard disk drive, flash card • 12 x Optical Zoom • CMOS Optical Sensor • Optical (Advanced O.I.S.) Image Stabilizer • 2.07 Mpix Video Resolution • Widescreen • Electronic Viewfinder
Reviews | 13 expert reviews (rating 80 / 100) • 42 user reviews: "Excellent picture quality eve..." see more »
Reviews | 13 expert reviews (rating 80 / 100) • 42 user reviews: "Excellent picture quality even in low light; built-in storage capacity; good range of manual controls....Interface can be confusing; build quality not as good as some rivals; wind noise....And unlike many of its rivals, the HDC-HS300 features not one but three CMOS image sensors (one each for red, green and blue video signals) with a total video resolution of 6.21 megapixels effective...The HDC-HS300 includes a full-size (cold) accessory shoe and 5.1-channel..."
see less »
Read Full Review » |
|
Hard Disk Camcorder Specs: Standard Definition • Hard disk drive, flash card • 35 x Optical Zoom • CCD Optical Sensor • Built-in Light • Widescreen
Reviews | 100 user reviews: "Oh, how we love new technology—especially when it comes in the fo..." see more »
Reviews | 100 user reviews: "Oh, how we love new technology—especially when it comes in the form of a smaller, sleeker, easier-to-use device...The Everio G-Series digital camcorders have hard drive-based storage with capacities of either 60GB or 80GB, but you can also fit plenty of video and photos on a microSD/SDHC card, which offers another 4GB or 8GB of storage..."
see less »
Read Full Review » |
|
Hard Disk Camcorder Specs: Standard Definition • Hard disk drive • 35 x Optical Zoom • CCD Optical Sensor • Electronic Image Stabilizer • 400 Kpix Video Resolution • Built-in Light • Widescreen
Reviews | 18 expert reviews (rating 70 / 100) • 505 user reviews: "As the second cheapest camer..." see more »
Reviews | 18 expert reviews (rating 70 / 100) • 505 user reviews: "As the second cheapest camera on test here - only the Sanyo VPC-CG9 costs less - we didn't expect the JVC GZ-MG330 to offer the same features and quality as the pricier, award-winning Sanyo HD1000 or Panasonic HDC-HS9...Despite this, it looks remarkably good on paper...And, once you begin to use the JVC, it becomes clear that the optical quality can't match the impressive storage either..."
see less »
Read Full Review » |
|
Hard Disk Camcorder Specs: Standard Definition • Hard disk drive, flash card • 70 x Optical Zoom • CCD Optical Sensor • Optical (Advanced O.I.S.) Image Stabilizer • 380 Kpix Video Resolution • Widescreen
Reviews | 9 expert reviews (rating 66 / 100) • 43 user reviews: "The SDR-H80 is a compact devic..." see more »
Reviews | 9 expert reviews (rating 66 / 100) • 43 user reviews: "The SDR-H80 is a compact device that’s suited to anyone who isn’t yet ready to make the step up to HD...But even at the highest quality setting, 13.5 hours is a good amount...A travel mode lets you adjust the time easily when you’re on holiday, and an Intelligent Auto mode does a good job of detecting the right settings to use, including automatic face detection...A remarkable feature of the SDR-H80 is the 70x optical zoom, one of the most impressive we’ve seen for a while..."
see less »
Read Full Review » |
|
All Other Hard Disk Camcorders, Hard Drive Camcorders