Best Camcorders - 13 to 24 x Optical Zoom, AVCHD Recording Format, 3 to 5 in. Depth

'Comprehensive enthusiast features.'

'Input/output terminals.'

'Images were really smooth with very few jagged edges and no visible pixellation.'

'huge zoom and superb image stabilisation'

'Useful and accessible automatic and manual controls'

'high-quality performance'

'Active Mode generally competent'

'It weighs next to nothing.'

'Superb 16x optical zoom.'

'Fashionable and comfortable.the JVC GZ-HD500 has Full HD HDD/microSD camcorder with 80GB HDD for up to 33 hours of AVCHD recording featuring Advanced Image Stabilizer and unique shooting functions.'

'You'll look at your existing camcorder (providing you own one, that is) and wonder how Panasonic has squeezed so much technology into such a small and lightweight gadget. '

'Other notable features include an intuitive 2.7-inch wide touch-screen interface, SDHC/SD memory card recording, and Advanced O.'

' - One-Touch Copy of Videos to DVD and Easy Playback with the BN1 DVD Burner – To avoid the two-step process previously required to save Full-HD videos from an SDHC/SD Memory Card or built-in memory onto a DVD for playback, the HDC-SD10 and HDC-TM10 feature a one-touch function that makes this process easier. '

'nice, bright f/1.8 aperture'

'high-quality video shooting'

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

'easy video downloading'

'The camcorder managed to register nearly all the colors in our test chart very accurately. '