For Christmas I bought my daughter a NEW Canon ZR40 mini digital video camera from Abe's of Maine (in Brooklyn NY) for ONLY ~$415. http://www.abesofmaine.com http://www.canondv.com/zr40/index.html Juan On Wednesday, December 25, 2002, at 09:42 PM, markflo at mac.com wrote: > Anyway... just some thoughts... I'm totally happy with my Digital8 > camera, > but if I wanted a higher-quality camera (lens, CCD, etc.), MiniDV > would be > the way to go. But for $600, it may be a toss-up...