Great image quality and plenty of enthusiast features for a very reasonable price

Impressive optical quality and storage space, though a touch expensive

Cheaper than the HF10, although you need to factor in the cost of storage cards

Canon are only the second manufacturer in the Australian market to provide a flash based video camera (Panasonic is the other). Daniel Long gives his first impressions.

The camera giant throws its weight behind flash-memory with its first solid state video cameras. It's also the first from Canon to record at 1920 x 1080 Full HD.

Good quality optics and lots of storage, but not the most portable of camcorders

Another big improvement, but this time it’s enough to make PowerDirector a worthy alternative to its mainstream rivals

A good price coupled with outstanding image quality – a good budget alternative to the Panasonic HDC-HS9

It may not be a looker, but in all other respects this Panasonic is a stunning camera

Huge storage for the money, but quality can’t match the more expensive models in this group

Better HD image quality than you’d expect for such a small camcorder, but the price is still a little high.

Pocket-sized digital camcorders are becoming more capable all the time. We round up ten of the best