New York — New MiniDV camcorders from Canon and Panasonic will be hitting store shelves this month and next, offering slimmed down designs, improved night shooting modes and improved digital still ...

Sony Electronics introduced the DCR-PC105 Mini DV Handycam as the latest edition to its family of ultra-compact Mini DV format digital camcorders. The new model was said to be designed for traveling ...

Remember when video cameras were so big you had to rest them on your shoulder? These days, MiniDVs are small enough to fit in your shirt pocket–and shoot dvd-quality video in virtually any light, ...

The new HVR-S270U shoulder-mount camcorder offers a 24p/30p native progressive record mode as well as a progressive HDV stream output from the camera’s iLink connector. Captured images are recorded as ...

Canon continues to push the envelope for digital camcorders with two new Optura miniDV camcorders: the Optura S1, and the Optura 600. The sleek Optura S1 took some major design cues from the iPod, and ...

Sony Electronics has introduced a new compact consumer camcorder that can record video, still images or serve as USB streaming device for live or recorded video. It’s lightweight and array of features ...

I'd like to start off by saying I'm very new to all of this so please exuse my ignorance.<BR><BR>I know that there are threads asking about which MiniDV camcorder to get, but, I feel my situation is ...

The Canon Elura 100 is small both in size and in price: It’s 2.2 by 3.0 by 4.3 inches and $400. Although it’s not quite pocket-sized, it’s compact and light enough to fit into a purse, so it won’t ...

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 ...

If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? Who cares? These days, the real question is: If you score a soccer goal and your parents weren't there with a ...

While the mini-laptop wars heat up in another department, the world's gadget producers are fighting it out over another device: the compact hi-def camcorder. In today's New York Times, David Pogue ...