What's a good HD video camera?

How about choosing Canon Vixia HF S200 Though they're an excellent trio of camcorders, the Vixia HF S21, HF S20, and HF S200 are significantly more expensive than their respective competitors, especially since the S20 and S200 lack electronic viewfinders. If you can forgo some of the subtleties of the manual controls, you can probably get what you need with a cheaper camcorder. this is proven to be very cool on doing shooting films

I will go for Canon Vixia HF S21 Camcorder Though they're an excellent trio of camcorders, the Vixia HF S21, HF S20, and HF S200 are significantly more expensive than their respective competitors, especially since the S20 and S200 lack electronic viewfinders. If you can forgo some of the subtleties of the manual controls, you can probably get what you need with a cheaper camcorder. This is so cool I tried this doing some shooting with artist

Can't beat a GoPro (no focusing/zooming of course) but the image quality is incredible and the lighting and "real life like" effect is simply breath taking. Otherwise you'd be looking at HD Camcorders with optical zoom

Go with Canon VIXIA HF R20 Full HD Camcorder its a good one Excellent 20x optical zoom lens produced very sharp video in adequate lighting. This means outdoor daytime, and bright indoor lighting.. There is a 28x "advanced" setting and 400x digital zoom. The advanced zoom is supposed to yield more zoom without compromising image quality. I'll stick to optical zoom myself, but it's a nice feature if you're into zooming. Auto Exposure worked very well outdoors, exposing bright scenes and shaded ones very well, and smoothly transitioning between the two. Indoors, I was less thrilled, because even during the daytime indoors, the video seemed a wee bit contrasty.