looking for a decent camcorder preferably DV tapes

Snake Plisken

Hi my current Panasonic DV camera has started to pack up and I'm in the market for a new one I would like to stick with DV camera as I have lots of tapes spanning 8 years, so has anyone spotted any decent ones at a bargain price?

Thanks

fdevine

I got one of these from komplett last week for €194 delivered. Price has gone up by a tenner since then, but still a good price.

Same camera is €250-270 in the shops.

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=346252

The Canon MD205 can be got for around the same money from Elara and if you can collect from Parkwest, there is no delivery charge.

Snake Plisken

Thanks for that I looked at the Sony HC51 and after researching it on AVforums, decided against it as it was not true widescreen.
As I was in a hurry and further research on Avforums I was looking at either the Panasonic GS90 which was in Argos for €299 or the Canon MD205 which was €219, in the end I went for the Canon MD205, got a bit of a shock when I dropped into Powercity as the Canon was listed as €239, lucky enough when I pointed out the price difference to the sales guy he actually sold it to me for €210 so delighted to pick it up for that, and also lucky to run into a decent salesman in Powercity
I could have spent more on a camera, but I reckon that Standard Def DV Tape camera's will soon be phased out in favour of HiDef cameras so this should keep me going until the technology matures and prices fall.

Thanks again

fdevine wrote: »

I got one of these from komplett last week for €194 delivered. Price has gone up by a tenner since then, but still a good price.

Same camera is €250-270 in the shops.

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=346252

The Canon MD205 can be got for around the same money from Elara and if you can collect from Parkwest, there is no delivery charge.