Consumer-level Mini-DV camcorders armed with three CCDs (charged-couple devices) capture the best and truest color images for playback on computers or television. Hence, the 2 1/2 -pound Sony ...

LifeFlix makes it easy to import Mini-DV tapes from your camcorder to QuickTime movies for digital archiving, or quickly create MP4 movies to share online. If you shot home videos between 1995 and ...

Canon announced it has added to its prosumer line a new digital camcorder that is the first mini-DV model to include a 20x optical zoom lens. Called the GL1, the new Canon camcorder is designed for ...

A six-minute romantic fantasy short film, "Baggage," shot with Panasonic's AG-DVX100 mini-DV 3-CCD camcorder, recently took top honors in the 48 Hour Film Project, an independent filmmaking ...

The AG-DV30 is equipped with three 410,000-pixel ¼-inch CCDs. It has a newly-engineered, wide-angle 16X Leica Dicomar zoom lens with Optical Image Stabilizer (OIS) and a focal length of 39.5 to 632 mm ...

Camcorder technology has come a very long way since the first time I pulled my back muscles carrying one on my shoulder. Although the one I have now is many times smaller and lighter than that one, it ...

The picture and audio quality of the Sharp VL-Z7U is comparable to other DV cameras that I’ve seen and used. Great audio and video aside, if your camera is a bear to hold and operate, then it’s not ...

I have always wanted one to film special occasions or when friends are over. I was looking for a camcorder with firewire support so that I could burn the movies to cd and watch them on my DVD player ...

Canon U.S.A. Inc. on Wednesday took off the wraps on six new Mini DV camcorders aimed at consumers. The company will release in February new entry-level ZR100, ZR200 and ZR300 models, aimed at ...

I have some 11-year-old recordings on Mini-DV, recorded with a Canon Optura Xi A camcorder. I can't figure out how to transfer them to a PC. I'd be happy with just playing the videos on my PC screen ...