What is the less expensive but good video recording camera?

What is a good recording camera video or digital that can hold a lot of hours of recording, has a decent?

• that has amount of battery time before it has to be recharged and is easy to upload on the computer? Also not to expensive? It's not for anything professional it's just for ...show more

• Answer:

  The standard for file based video recording is 6 mbps (megabits per second) so the recording time is dependent solely on the size of the media, in megabytes. miniDVD has the least storage, and only runs for about 40 minutes. you can get SD cards in 16 GB size for 7 hours. and HDD in 100 GB for 45 hours. Standard batteries are good for 2-3 hours, you can get larger capacity sizes for most camera models. The camcorder normally breaks continuous recording at 2 GB intervals to prevent creating a file too large to be read on a FAT 32 computer. however the break normally is buffered for no data loss and can be stitched together with software if needed when viewing. HDD will break for drive calibration at about 10 hours continuous. once you finallize a miniDV, it can be read in a computer DVD drive. SD and HDD can be read through the USB using software that comes with the camera. All are bargained priced compared to the VHS or Video8 cameras of 20 years ago and offer superior performance.