Canon grabs the crown for the most fully featured HDV camcorder for under $1500

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

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

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

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

Key improvements over the SD5 make this a still more enticing pocket HD camcorder prospect

A fully featured hard disk AVCHD camcorder with plenty of recording space

A great value camcorder that’s capable of some decent results.

Canon’s first hard disk-based AVCHD camcorder gets it mostly right, with a good level of features and the best image quality we’ve yet seen from the format.

A great next-generation camcorder, but it lacks editing support for the recording format

A fully featured hard disk AVCHD camcorder with plenty of recording space

A dinky AVCHD camcorder, with respectable video performance and a reasonable price.

Great audio, but gaming ability hinges on the success of Dolby and DTS

You still get a lot for your money, but HD optical burning only extends to data discs

HD camcorders enter the mainstream once and for all. With image quality like this, there’s little reason to spend more.

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