

Video cameras originally designed for television broadcast were large and heavy, mounted on special pedestals and wired to remote recorders in separate rooms. It has no playback functionality and is only capable of recording.

Sony Betamovie BMC-110 (BMC-100P in PAL markets) is the first consumer camcorder.

Additionally, dedicated units are able to operate solely on external power with no battery inserted. More recent devices capable of recording video are camera phones and digital cameras primarily intended for still pictures, whereas dedicated camcorders are often equipped with more functions and interfaces than more common cameras, such as an internal optical zoom lens that is able to operate silently with no throttled speed, whereas cameras with protracting zoom lenses commonly throttle operation speed during video recording to minimize acoustic disturbance. In 2006, digital recording became the norm, with tape replaced by storage media such as mini-HD, microDVD, internal flash memory and SD cards. The earliest camcorders were tape-based, recording analog signals onto videotape cassettes. It is typically equipped with an articulating screen mounted on the left side, a belt to facilitate holding on the right side, hot-swappable battery facing towards the user, hot-swappable recording media, and an internally contained quiet optical zoom lens.
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A Canon VIXIA HF10 camcorder this is one of Canon's first AVCHD format Flash Memory Full HD camcordersĪ camcorder is a self-contained portable electronic device with video capture and recording as its primary function.
