You know who they are and maybe you are one of them. They are those special people who always have their video camcorders pointed and rolling. They have filmed every special event ranging from births to funerals and baby's first steps to graduations. Their stacks and stacks of VCR tapes attest to their commitment and joy of committing everything to film.

Now they just want to keep rolling the film and conveniently store that footage on a hard drive. A product that may be the solution for that camcorder enthusiast is the camcorder hard disk.

The camcorder hard disk is a video camera that allows the user to capture their footage on a self-contained hard drive. Some of the features and advantages of the camcorder hard disk device may be just the answer for that veteran or novice video camera devotee.

Features

The camcorder hard disk is surprisingly easy to use and handle. Designed to be lightweight, these cameras are roughly the size of a mini DV camera. The attractive feature of the camcorder hard disk electronic device is its storage ability. The claims of storage capacity will vary from product to product and will depend upon the size of the hard disk. The hard disk is measured in gigabytes (GB) and is similar to a hard drive found in a computer. As an example a 20GB hard drive will store approximately seven to ten hours of video footage. The number of hours stored is dependent upon whether the video recorded is of DVD quality or camcorder quality.

Other important features to consider when shopping for this product include the battery life, the zoom capabilities, the CCD (light sensor) and the monitor.

Advantages

The main benefit of the camcorder hard disk is its ability to serve as a storage unit for video footage. Because of this function there is no need to purchase extra disks or tapes.

Additionally, the camcorder hard disk removes a step in the transferring process. Prior to the availability of this camcorder, the user often had to transfer recorded video to the hard drive in their computer. Now, with the camcorder hard disk, that step is removed as the video is directly recorded to the hard drive contained in the video camera.

Also, recorded video on the camcorder hard disk can be easily located on the drive due to the ease of searching. Other review benefits include the ease of fast forwarding and rewinding when wanting to edit the footage. Another feature includes the standard operation of each new recording being saved to a new file. This feature can prevent a clip from being accidentally erased.