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Mini DV advice.

The canon GL1 is slightly over your limit, but IMO is worth the $500 extra. Compatability is an issue (or was) with this camera though. The ADS Pyro card (and drivers) works great with mine.
 
The Canon Optura Pi is pretty solid, not a 3-ccd but only around 1200-1300. By the time you get a wide-angle lens and other stuff, it'll run you around 1500.

I was looking in your price range too, and it came down to the Pi or the Sony TRV-20. Couldn't pull a good matte off it, but that's a codec issue and the fact I'm an amateur 🙂
GL-1 is nice, but I couldn't justify spending so much on my first camera.

Check out these places:

http://www.i-depth.com/P/o/ow00412.frm.camcorder.html

terribly organized but it's got some good info.


http://www.2-pop.com/

check out the camcorder forum, it's geared towards the 3-ccd cameras
 
I picked up a new Sony TRV-310 for $690 shipped on eBay. Toss in a $75 ADS Pyro card from Buy.com that included Media Studio Pro 6 VE (slightly stripped, still equipped and has all the important features intact) and I was in business.🙂

I'm editing some trip footage right now and it's going OK except that MSP's Capture Utility won't let me save it where I want to.:|

I wanted to get my chops down in a budget style before blowing a fortune on GL1's or XL-1's, ya know?
 
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