Canon HG10 HD AVCHD camcorder for $758

[Hulk]

On Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Canon-AVCHD-Definition-Camcorder-Optical/dp/B000U8HBRW#

The quality of this camcorder is pretty darn good as you can see here.

http://usa.canon.com/app/html/See_The_Difference/hd_cmos.shtml

If it only had manual audio level control and recorded in a progressive mode.

Still it is very tempting at this price.

[Jerry Jones]

Great camcorder... at a price I wish would have existed when I bought my Sony HDR-UX1 AVCHD camcorder.

Still, my Sony HDR-UX1 is performing very well for me with lots of manual control.

Love the AVCHD format.

I have eliminated all of my tape-based camcorders.

Now, I'm working with either 8cm mini DVD disc or SD memory card camcorders and I just love them.

Don't miss tape.



Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Hulk]

Now the price is up $100. I've noticed that prices on Amazon seem to fluctuate by the hour like stocks! Their margins must be really tight.

[Jerry Jones]

A cautionary tale on DVInfo.Net about the Canon HG10 hard disk:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=110384

Kind of makes you think twice about hard disk recording, doesn't it?

I think I like memory cards best.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Hulk]

Well there are always going to be anecdotal cases of camcorder failures. Unless there is an onslaught of such occurances I'm not concerned about it. I've had quite a few laptops with 2.5" hard drives as well as a Western Digital Passport which is also a 2.5" form factor hard drive and haven't as yet had a problem with any of them. And I've dropped them all a little harder than I care to remember on ocassion.

Who knows how this particular camcorder was handled during shipping?
Who know if the owner or someone in his family accidentally gave it a bump before the heads were parked?

Plus loud clicking noises are a clear sign a drive is heading for the great beyond.
Remember the IBM "Death Star" failures from a few years ago? Well maybe more like 10 years ago.

Of course I would rather have solid state storage on my camcorder but until prices come down from the current $10/GB (or more) I think hard drives are a decent and proven alternative for most applications.