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

PC Authority gets a first look at Apple's newly released video editing, animating, DVD authoring, audio editing, video compressing and colour grading suite.

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

One beautiful camera, with one awful flaw.

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

If you want your film to look good in front of an audience of thousands, these are the cameras you should be using.

Much like the PC and component market, mobile phones have a product lifecycle that changes so rapidly it's hard to keep up. Panasonic has stayed with their tried and true clamshell design, first made popular by the GD88 and continued with the X700. This handset turns their previous generations upside down, offering Panasonic's first smart phone based on Symbian OS version 7.0.

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

Hot on the toes of Panasonic, Sony has just released their new Bravia HD TV range including a 5-star energy efficient WE5 series and the 200Hz MotionFlow Z5500 series.

High-profile short films from around the world are now getting made on DSLR cameras, thanks to rapidly improving sensors and prices. Judge for yourself, with these five videos made with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

Great video, tons of features, easy to use... if only there was a PAL-friendly version

Sony's first CMOS based consumer HD camera brings control and fidelity to images in a package that's hard to beat.

A capable cam that'll take the knocks and matches it rival, the Panasonic HDC-SD1. It can’t quite better Canon’s HV20 on sheer performance though

This Panny 'corder can shoot stills at a resolution of 4-megapixels, which makes it a match for a still camera

Not exactly a hi-def holiday shooter, but the Action Cam is perfect for creating your ‘when skiing goes wrong’ home video

Support for latest video formats and a batch-media encoder, but supporting apps have seen little upgrading.

AVCHD support and some useful new effects keep this as the leading entry-level video editor.

At first glance the JVC GR-D230 looks very much like one of the DVD-R/RW cameras. But it's the stylish design and disc like LCD screen that leads you astray and it is in fact another of the Mini DV tape cameras with the cassette cleverly concealed.

The marker has been laid down. Sony's pulled off another AVCHD stunner that will be hard to beat this year

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.