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

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

Impressive optical quality and storage space, though a touch expensive

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

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

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

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

3CCD has yet to prove it’s worth the premium. If you want a hard-disker, go for one of the cheaper Everio models

Not much to tempt you over last year's HV20 but Canon still rules the roost when it comes to raw picture quality

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.

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.

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

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

Easily one of the cheapest 60GB hard drive cameras, but its image quality is cheap too.

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

Although it takes great footage directly to a hard drive, it's being held back by a few problems.

A high end DVD-based camcorder for quick and clean shooting.

Panasonic has gone above and beyond, releasing its NV-GS35 with its massive 30x optical zoom, dwarfing the usual 20 or so times zooms found on other cameras.