Spec me a budget camcorder

[piros]

Hi all, i'm in the market to buy a camcorder, I have 0 knowledge on this subject! It will be used to film a few family moments etc, the usual stuff. I was hoping to spend about £150 or maybe even less, but having a quick read here, makes it seem like a bad idea?
Has anyone got any recommendations, would like a good microphone, decent quality and FPS, I could spend more if I needed to (most likely will have to

 

[redsox_mark]

Canon MD101 is decent and available for £175.
The inbuilt mic is nothing special (they generally aren't), but you can use an external mic with this model.

 

[piros]

Thanks for reply, will check that model out then, sounds a reasonable price too, was expecting to have to fork out about £300 for anything half decent

I suppose I could check out the internal mic first and see if it will be enough for me, otherwise, external mic sounds good

Just to add, can you hook this camcorder up to the pc & is it easy to use? Sorry if it's a silly question

 

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The camcorder itself is easy to use.

It's a miniDV camcorder, so as with all miniDV cams copying the video to a PC is easy but requires a Firewire connection and use of editing software (such as Windows Movie Maker, or one of several commercial packages).