Best Camcorders - SP Recording Speed, 5 to 14 Hours Battery Life, 30 to 200 x Digital Zoom

'sizable 3.5-inch screen'

'high quality recording'

'excellent high-end camcorder'

'It excels in low-light environments and it's also ideal for macro shooting.'

'crisp and clear focus'

'streamlined user interface'

'The camera includes 32GB of built-in flash memory and supports SDHC cards, and it encodes the video as AVCHD files with data rates up to 24 mbps, the format's maximum capability. '

'The camcorder earned an audio score of Good, with noticeably better clarity and volume than rival camcorders offered. '

'impressively deep and professional manual controls'

'Excellent set of manual features.'

'The HF S21 also includes an electronic viewfinder, and it is Canon's only new camcorder to include such feature. '

'Canon’s superlative proprietary imaging technologies'

'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.'

'The Canon Vixia HG21 is an excellent HD camcorder that's reasonably easy to operate out of the box and looks good, too.'

'The overall video image quality is very high, and the features and usability are there.'

'great video and image quality'

'translucent black and burnt amber gradient color scheme'

'Images look sharp, too.'

'The back of the Canon HG20 is well balanced and not too bad looking either The Left Side (5.5) The left side of the Canon HG20 will see a lot of action.'