Best Camcorders - Under $700

'Useful and accessible automatic and manual controls'

'high-quality performance'

'Even if you don’t buy this high-def model, check it out at the local retailer: It’s quite impressive.'

'The usual array of Sony features are present and accounted for, including X.'

'Compared to other home-movie camcorders on the market, it is relatively inexpensive at around $520..'

'new Gigabrid Premium video engine'

'petite and handsome Everio GZ-MG330'

'The MG330 is also pretty stylish to boot, with a smart brush metal finish and a polished ebony finish on the inside of the LCD.'

'Supports manual focus, which helps intermediate users to tape in hard-to-focus situations. '

'The VPC-WH1 offers a 30x optical zoom, 2-megapixel still photo capture, and Sanyo's new noise reduction technology. '

'The new Samsung HMX-H205 top of the line HD camcorder comes with a beefy 32GB of solid state storage for stashing your videos on, as well as an SDHC card slot to bolster that further, but it’s the promise of a new BSI CMOS sensor on the Samsung HMX-H205 that has us excited. '

'I.S image stabilization is built-in as well, designed to suppress the effects of hand-shake while recording on-the-go.'