Camcorder..finally made up my mind!

[RUBigDog05]

After weeks of researching camcorders, I went to Circuit City today to try out a few of them. At first I wanted something with a really good zoom, 3ccd, miniDV and compact. I found out I would have to sacrafice one for the other...3ccd with not a great zoom or sacrafice the 3ccd for a good zoom. Today I went to Circuit City to see which one I would give up and after trying a few with 20X optical zoom or more, it was easy making my decision. I would get the 3CCD over the 20+X optical zoom. When I would zoom in with the 26X optical zoom, the picture would start shaking a lot, distorting the pic. I thought it was my hand at first but it wasn`t. A lot of optical zoom wasn`t good. I then tried the 3CCD with less zoom (10X optical) and that was perfect. It didn`t zoom in so much but the pic wasn`t distorted at all. I"m going to go pick up the PAN- PVGS150 tomorrow at CircuitCity for $579 after $50 rebate and it comes with a free bag and tripod. My old roomate had this camera for his media/film classes and he loved it until it got stolen so he jumped up to the PAN PVGS250. I think its going to do exactly what I need it for...family cruise in March, car/truck shows and hopefully will still be decent a few years down the road when its time for a wife and kids! Its a gift from my g-ma for Xmas so I won`t get to use it until then but oh well!

[RAYJAY]

I got the JVC gr-d72 for xmas last year great little vid cam nice price too

Jeff