Canon DC20 DVD Camcorder

Got it for 2 weeks now, love it! Small/just the right size, it actually fit perfectly into most of my coats pocket. Canon hide their battery in the LCD compartment(couldnt find it for a while) which make the camcorder the same small size with or without the battery. Very well built device with solid half metal/half plastic body and Made in Japan manufacturing quality(cross fingers).

Great still picture capability, with or without the built in flash, you wont need to bring a separate digital camera with this 2 mega-pixels cameracorder(on most occassion) Great sound quality with excellent wind noise reduction capability. Video quality in daylight is excellent, abit underexpose at times though. Average indoor quality though but the built in vdo light helps alot. Nightmode helps alot with illumination, pitch dark rooms seem like midmorning lol but the picture is rather grainy and you need to have stone steady hands.

You can dub your dvd easily with a dvd burner equipped Windows XP computer with a touch of a button. When you take pictures and store them on the dvd, you can fish it out with the pc like the cam was an external harddrive!(wonder if it stores files...) Come with easy to use roxio dvd editing program. Overall its a great cam I got it for only $649 at Crutchfield with free shipping and no tax! J&R had it for the same price, just print the ad and bring it to Best buy they will match it.

Wish it have an accessory shoe and ext mic input, I guess Canon meant it to be an all inclusive package lol Not much accessories although this is a very new product and canon's first real attempt at dvd camcorders. Controls are abit tricky and need some getting use to. btw this baby heats up quite abit after a while of usage. Compare to my friend's Sony DVD92 and DVD201 that i had played with, this camera kick *ss.

Overall for general consumer use this camera rocks! but not quite up to the pro-sumer status yet, then again it is only $649!(you get more than what you pay for trust me!) and the dvd camcorder technology is still new.

I bought this for my son's trip to China thinking that it would be a video camera that would take pictures too.
It turned out to be a pretty good camera, that would take video instead.
The power requirement for taking video all the time is so high that you would need a pocket full of charged batteries to go through a day. The batteries are charged only in the camera, and it takes a long time.
In the end, this machine will take hundreds of pictures, transfer them from memory card to disc for storage, and allow you to take more pictures.
Finding the correct set points for a good shot can take a lot of time.
View through the "viewfinder" on the camcorder is difficult, making the LCD panel the only option for framing a shot.
The size of the camera is ok, it will fit into a coat pocket. It is very sturdy too. Mine has been dropped a couple of times, and still works. Mind you, the "joystick" on the left side has broken off now making navigation difficult.

This Camera is the worst, I was told that this Camera as a “GOOD” Buy against the Sony Camera that I originally went in to buy. I think the camera itself is crappy and Canon should never sell this camera .

The day shot is good but THAT’s IT. The night shot is TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE, it gets hot to the point that I sometimes canner use it and have to resort to the tripod stand. The video editing software looks to have been developed by a school child with no value to the user what so ever. I’ve been trying to get the darn thing to do simple things and it takes an hour to upload an 8 minute video from the camera to my PC. Don’t even entertain the though of me not knowing what I’m doing, I’ve been in telecoms and the IT world for 6 years, bringing a network up and down seems to be easier.

If it did what the manual says it should do as easy as it says it should, I would be fine

Buyers, beware.