Difference between a camera and camcorder?

What is the difference between a camera,camcorder, and video camera?

• What is the difference between a digitalcamera, a camcorder, and a video camera?

• Answer:

  The definitions overlap. A digital camera is the broadest group. It includes cameras that take and save still or motion pictures digitally instead of on film. More common usage is to refer to still cameras. Camcorders or handycam are portable devices that take and save moving pictures. Some older ones save in analog. Most produced in the last 2-3 years are digital. Many of the newest digital still cameras can do very short videos and newest camcorders can take still pictures. They are more expensive and some people feel pictures taken in their alternative mode are of poorer quality. A video camera technically is one that just takes a moving picture. It would be attached to a separate recording device, as in a TV studio. Most people though use it to mean a camcorder. If you are reading about consumer products, you are reading about camcorders.