Camcorders..i have no idea what to look for!

[PinkChick]

HD/SD/DVD???????????????????????????????

Wanting to spend no more than £250 as a joint present, want something small, durable and good

Any suggestions?

Don't buy a DVD camcorder. Our Panasonic keeps complaining about errors on the disks. Panasonic say it's fingerprints but I can't see any on the latest one to have a problem. We've lost precious video because it's approach to "repairing" faults seems to be deleting the affected tracks :-(

thanks for that tip, sound very unreliable and obv you buy one of these so you can keep the memory!..so would the memory/sd card ones be better???

Frankly I'm no expert on video equipment, but I'd probably choose a hard disk camcorder these days. Unfortunately I think they're still pricey. At that budget I'd probably buy some sort of digital tape and back it up regularly.

we've got a sony dvd one and never had any trouble.

Canon mini dv's are really good value.

www.jessops.com/Store/s73624/0/Camcorders/Canon/FS100-SD-and-SDHC-Camcorder/details.aspx?&IsS earch=y&pageindex=1&searchword=fs100&SortBy=RelevanceDESC&IsInStockOnly=False&comp=y

Has excellent reviews and £30 cashback offer until end of August. Bought one of these lasr week, its easy to use and very small. Records to memory card.

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just c &p it for myself to have a look..thans everyone, dp thingks its not neccesary?, but will look into it as i would like one

ooh i really like that Canon one!, canon are a good camera company arent they?..only know them associated with cameras?/ and that £30 cash back sound good, keeping it under £200!..as i overestimated on my savings for tax this year, i might just go and be extravagent on myself!..i can use it for work too so can claim a percentage of it back next year..thanks for that link and everyone elses tips

Its a fab camcorder, check there are no discount codes to use - I had a 10% code which meant I paid £198 then have just sent off for the £30 cashback so it actually cost me £168

ooh fab, is there somewhere i can search for codes like this??..or which did you use?

Jessops do 3% cash back on quidco.

Try CAMCORDER5, not sure its still valid but if so is worth 5%. The 10% one was for last weekend use.

thanks will try it now