From its glitter-infused black casing to its luminous 2.7-inch LCD the HF10 is a work of art.

Beautiful colours

Price

A winner.

Titanium: great for making spaceships less essential for consumer electronics, until now.

A stonkingly good looking camcorder, but needs some stablilisers.

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Easy to use

Poor camera quality Lack of editing features

Not for any die hard home video makers, but perfect for You Tubers and You've Been Framed fans.

The world's first Blu-ray shooter rocks up just as the HD DVD hits the rocks.

>Hybrid technology,, Backwards compatibility for DVD ,

Design Shaky movies Shocking lowlight performance

Well ahead of the game for Blu-ray cams, in fact too far. There's a long way to go between this and a top-performing HD disc cam

An enormous zoom almost guarantees satisfaction

Lovely great zoom lens

Embarrassingly small sensor Plastic body

A useful camera with useful features but dire styling and a puny sensor.

Canon gets hard-corder

>Video quality, Memory, HDMI connection ,

Bit pricey

Canon come out fighting into the HDD market

JVC takes a hard line with its long-lens 'corder.

>Capacious hard drive, Fast transfer, Big, quiet lens, Video light ,

Average image quality and screen

More attention to raw image quality would have helped, but it's still worth considering, especially if you have a tripod that can tame the massive zoom.

This low-end 10x zoom camcorder is all about value for money

>PROS: Large, bright 2.5-inch LCD. Smooth, natural audio. Competent video recordings. ,

Small size, small price, big capacity. Interested?

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It doesn't produce amazingly high-quality video, but as a cheap mini camcorder, this Mustek puts in a respectable performance

It's USB a gogo on this flawed-but-capable 'corder

>PROS: Good-quality movies and great stills. Superb PC connectivity. ,