Looking for a good 'first' camcorder

[Robert M Wright]

Originally Posted by Mark Yang

Under a thousand. Something like Best Buy.

In the future we're looking at maybe spending 5k.

You'll do better at B&H Photo. Any camera Best Buy has, B&H will almost always have at a better price, and I'd much rather deal with B&H sales and customer service.

If I were going to spend $1000 on a consumer camcorder right now, I'd get Canon's HF-S10.