Hi
I know these forums are littered with requests like this, and i know how tedious it can be seeing them appear all the time, but i'm appealing to your better nature. Please could someone let me know the best value at 300 notes?
Thanks

[Northtim]

Just got Canon MV960, £257 off Amazon, then another £50 for case, spare battery, firewire cable & tapes.

Not had much time to play with it so far but happy with what I have seen.

[oldjohn]

I got the Canon MV 960 a short while ago and am very impressed with it,25 X optical zoom,widescreen.
John.

[redsox_mark]

Canon MV960 does look very good value. You can also look at the Sony HC44/HC46 (£288/£322.. the difference is the HC46 has DV-in). The Canon has DV-in, and also has analogue in (and digital conversion) – rare in this price range (the Sony’s don’t have it). The 25x zoom doesn’t do much for me (generally I find 10x is enough), but it doesn’t hurt.
Or go a little over £300 (available at £345 delivered) and look at the Panasonic GS-180. 3 CCDs for better colour accuracy. It has an accessory shoe that the others do not have. Has higher resolution (2.3 MP) for stills. However it doesn’t have DV-in or AV-in.

Mark

hi, thanks mate but what is the digital conversion and dv in for.?

[redsox_mark]

Analogue in (with DV conversion): Is so you can connect any analogue video source (e.g. tapes from an old camcorder, VHS tapes from your VCR) and the camcorder will take this input and convert it to DV output, which you can edit. Useful if you want to go back and edit some older analogue recordings.

DV in: With DV in, when you have finished an edit, you can create a tape of your edited project, by outputting back to DV tape. Before the days of DVD this was really essential if you wanted to edit, otherwise how would you watch your edited production? With DVD as the output for most editing these days it is less critical, but still a good feature as 1) the DV master will be less compressed and higher quality, and 2) It gives you another backup of your edited project, and on tape (there are some concerns about the lifespan of DVDs).

Mark