PANASONIC's Junky New Standard Definition Camcorders

[Jerry Jones]

The NV-GS320 has no microphone input.

The VDR-D310 does have a microphone input and a decent data rate, but it's still too expensive for a standard definition camcorder.

http://tinyurl.com/yya9o7

Sad.

It seems they're all just throwing a bunch of junk at us now.

Hard to take any of them seriously.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Brian Ellis]

Panasonic isn't alone. All the consumer cameras are pretty junky, especially since seeing headshrinkers making things so small they are impossible to manipulate with normal-sized hands and even more impossible to keep still when hand-held. This is one of the reasons I stick with my 11+ year old Panasonic mini-DV which has sufficient weight and volume to be usable (and has mike input and phones output!). I'm not saying there aren't good mini-DV cams still available, but they are too expensive for my budget, as a retiree.