How much do you want to spend, what do you intend to do with your videos (watch them back on tv, put them on YouTube or make DVD's?), do you want to get into editing and if you do, how much time do you want to spend learning how to use a video editing program? With so many camcorders available and in so many price ranges and levels it's difficult to answer your question without more details.

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