I've been playing around with my new Canon HV10 HD Camcorder over the past week and wanted to share my first impressions. This by no means is a comprehensive review, but should give you a good idea about this device. Compact Size, but awkward at first to hold The Canon HV10 is definitely compact. I saw the picture before I got it but couldn't really believe that there was finally an HD camcorder that could fit into my palm. (I actually got it by redeeming credit card points online, so I didn't actually hold it first.) The camcorder itself if taller than it is wide, which took a little getting use to. With my old digital camcorder, I could hold the device with my whole hand and grasp it from underneath. With the Canon camcorder, you actually hold it more on the side with only three of your fingers. After awhile, it became second nature and wasn't a big a deal as at first. Video quality The main reason that I wanted an HD camcorder was for the increased picture quality. I must say that the Canon HV10 does not disappoint. The resolution is very obvious from my old standard ...

The time is here and I finally made the jump into High Definition (HD) home videos with the purchase of Canon's first (I believe) HD camcorder, the HV10.  I've been dreaming of buying a HD camcorder for almost 2 years now.  The price drop to around $1,000 coupled with the redcution in size of the camcorder to fit in your palm made this purchase a no-brainer for me. My reasoning is simple.  I like to take a lot of home videos and (unlike many people I know) actually watch them quite often.  We watch the home movies together as a family on our big screen TV in our family room.  The problem is that when you blow up a standard definition resolution video on a reasonably sized TV, the picture quality leaves much to be desired.  There was some discussion about this in the comments of the Transferring Digital Video to a PC article that I wrote. The Canon HV-10 should arrive some time today.  I'm very anxious to see what the video quality looks like on my TV after I take some videos.   My next post will be my review and thoughts of the device after I've used it ...

Are you up on the differences between DSLR and point & shoot digital cameras? Do you know which may best fit your needs? In this article, Yog-Sothoth explains the basic differences between them, what each is capable of, when you may want to consider one over the other, and even includes a special introduction by TechLore.com Editor, Matt Whitlock.

I recently got a new web-cam and digital camera from Philips. I need help! It will not let me install them, saying I have no "drives". What does that mean?

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I have a Sony Cybershot DSC-P8. I basically point and shoot and don't know anything about the settings so i'm using automatic. I take a lot of pictures of my baby boy. Many close ups of his face, mostly in indoor light. I like the lighting if I can turn off the flash, or use the SL flash setting, but if he moves at all, the pictures is blurry. Since he's 6 months old, most pictures with no flash or...

Raise your hand if you have taken home videos? OK, pretty much all of you. Now, keep your hand up if you have digitized your memories by putting them on a computer or DVD. Aha. That's what I thought. Not many of you. I can hear the excuses already - "I'm want to do it, I'm just too busy", "I don't know how to do it", or "I want to take the time to do it right and create really good edited videos". Well, I'm here to tell you to forget the excuses and do it now. At the very least, transfer the video to your computer, even if you don't edit it yet. This will do several things for you: (1) gives you a backup copy of your tape in case your original gets damaged or lost, (2) tape has a limited life span, so it will ensure that you won't lose your precious moments, and (3) it will give you the ability to actually watch your video. I hooked my computer to my TV and watch my home videos in the family room. It's a great way to spend quality time together as a family.The transfer process is ...

I need to know how to transfer pictures from my Vivitar Vivicam 3350B digital camera to my pc.