Ok. I'll admit that I've been putting this off, but I need to pull the trigger w/in the next few days. We had our camcorder stolen in Jan during a break-in. Bought a decent digital camera for the inauguration, but now need to actually replace the camcorder. The last one was one of the panasonic( I think ... ) miniDV units that had good video in decent lighting, poor low light video, and crappy stills. But, it fit the hand perfectly, had controls in the right place, was easy to use, rel. light weight and seemed to have a decent auto setting. I didn't even mind carrying the little tapes around in the camera bag.
I need something that my wife can use around the house filming the little one, and for holidays. Not really concerned about the stills( have a camera for that... ), don't really care for the hard drive or dvd based units, needs to be easy to "pick up and use", decent video( standard def. ) and under $350.
Do you guys have any recommendations? Being that I waited so late, it has to be something that I can run out to BB or walmart( or whatever... ) this weekend or Mon.
Help, please!!!!
