The word 'camcorder' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a portable electronic device used for recording videos and typically includes a video camera and a video recorder in one unit. Example: I decided to buy a new camcorder to capture all the special moments of our family vacation.
This exemption also applies to recreational use, eg by using a mobile phone or camcorder.
To achieve his latest Brentford TV role, he bought a camcorder and taught himself how to edit footage, proof that old journalists can learn new digital tricks.
Present-day interviews in which Mr Larson and his colleagues convey the thrill of that original discovery are intermingled with grainy camcorder footage of the excavations themselves, in which the fossil-hunters laugh and joke excitedly, looking oddly amateur as they pick away at rocks in their jeans and polo shirts.
Paramount's "Cloverfield", a low-budget monster movie shot as if by an amateur with a camcorder, earned $40m in its opening weekend in American cinemas last month, crushing the competition.
Also, some older DVD players can't handle MiniDVDs.If, however, you want to make more professional videos for product demonstrations or training exercises, then a camcorder with a hard-drive is a better bet.
The camcorder can shoot high-definition video at 1,920 by 1,080 pixels, and do a lot of other tricks, including something called "Intelligent Face Detection", which automatically identifies human subjects so that their faces can be recorded in more detail.Sony's camcorder stores its clips on Sony's version of a memory card, the Memory Stick.
The camcorder has its own small screen for playback, on which its video looks good.
One is the "Flip" pocket camcorder from Pure Digital Technologies, which burst onto the scene 18 months ago, prompting a wave of copycat models from other manufacturers.
But other wires stubbornly resist replacement by wireless technology, particularly those that carry video signals from a DVD player to a television, for example, or from a camcorder to a PC.Partly, that is because beaming video around reliably requires a higher rate of data transfer than Wi-Fi or Bluetooth can provide.
Sony's best-selling PC7 digital camcorder, introduced last September at ¥220,000, has forced makers offering analogue models (ie, using bulky video cassettes) to drop their prices to as low as ¥40,000.Digital products accounted for less than 10% of Sony's worldwide sales in 1990.
Whereas Mr Keane used the equipment of the journalist the camera and the camcorder, Mr Howson reached into his imagination, painting actions that he did not witness (see illustration) but which he hoped would shock people into an awareness of what war means: boredom, confusion, horror and fear.Mr Howson has returned to the Balkans, sponsored by the Times.
