Best Camcorders - 0.525 to 1.15 lb. Weight, High Definition Recording Format, 2 to 5 Hours Battery Life

'Nice compact design.'

'The quality is quite good, particularly indoors, there was little jarring noise.'

'The JVC GZ-HM550 is sharply styled, with a silver-accented black body.'

'The HM550 has other great new features being showcased by JVC's newly announced flagship camcorder, the GZ-HM1.'

'smooth, fluid image'

'Picture quality and sound are impressively clear, with no background hiss or operational buzz, while colours have just the right amount of saturation to ensure that skin tones look healthy without appearing unnaturally so.'

'For starters, it captures full 1080p video, not 720p like the higher-end pocket camcorders capture, and at a whopping 60 frames per second. '

'responsive wide-angle-to-telephoto rocker zoom'

'traditional candy bar-style design'

'The creamy white and black incarnation of the latest high definition Sanyo Xacti VPC-CG10 model remains desirably attractive and portable too at a weight of 188g with rechargeable lithium-ion battery and card inserted.'

'Images remained impressively sharp throughout testing, with detailed objects — such as overlapping leaves — exhibiting little digital smearing.'

'The lens space is only sufficient to provide a 5x optical zoom, which is pretty paltry when most HD camcorders offer at least 10x.'

'The optical image stabilization did a fine job smoothing out shakes from handheld videos. '

'Pros Superb video and stills.'

'revolutionary and highly-stylish, vertical pistol-grip design'

'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.'

'It is best suited to casual users who want something reliable and cheap that’s still impressive enough to screen on an HDTV.'

'large, bright LCD screen'

'Solid array of features. '

'The right side of the Samsung HMX-H105 is quite sleek.'

'It is easy to see that this is who the HMX-H105 has been marketed towards, and we think it's a very good fit.'