A Camcorder Christmas
To make up for lost time, I decided to pack up a few camcorders and spend an afternoon among the daily influx of visitors roaming the streets of New York City. At first, my plan was ambitious: head out on double-decker bus, hit the key downtown sights, then swing back up for a jaunt along museum row on the Upper East Side. Weighed down by seven cams, however, I decided to limit my escapade to two jewels of the NYC public parks system, Central Park and tiny Bryant Park, behind the New York Public Library in Midtown Manhattan. It was a lovely afternoon for camcording, and by day's end I had a good idea of exactly what made these seven models tick. The lineup included the Canon Optura 200MC ($1,700) - which we learned at presstime is being replaced by the Optura 300, a similar, more photo-friendly design with a 2-megapixel image sensor - Samsung's SC-D5000 ($1,400), Sony's DCR-TRV70 ($1,300), the Hitachi DZ-MV380A ($1,100), the Panasonic PV-GS70 ($1,000), Sharp's VL-Z7U ($900), and JVC's GR-D30 ($500).
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