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This was a video camera of mine before it broke. It truly is bad. The camera itself is excellent. But you think Canon, you think good name. Ask any professional in the digital world, they will say get a SONY. My ZR60 broke 9 months in, just having digital explosions. It is a good camera until it breaks, and it will. Canon has a 1/3 faliure rate, which was a 1/2 for quite some time. Just spend a few extra bucks, and please buy a sony.

First, let me thank all of the previous reviewers of this product. It is because of the quality information (including the night time settings) from these folks, that I bought this camera here at amazon.com. Look, I'm a complete novice to video recording/editing and had some apprehension of buying one because I thought it would be too difficult to master, let alone begin to understand.

I wanted a simple, yet quality DVC. The Canon ZR60 is just that. I have had no issues with the camera and was able to plug it (using an optional 4 pin to 6 pin firewire cable) right into my Apple G5 and begin editing video. The quality of the footage has been great. I am so impressed with the little camera, that I have even begun transfering our wedding videos to it, in an effort to preserve them to DVD. Thank goodness for simplicity!

Nice camera and I can use the batteries from my Canon G2 on it. Does everything it should. Low light is lacking in auto but with the right manual settings it"s fine. Glad I bought it. And converting analog tapes is very good. Converting is the main reason I chose the Canon.

I'd give it 5 stars but for no other reason then it's just not quite there. But really close. 4.97

I bought this camera because I needed for school, The zoom is outstanding, I can zoom into tiny print and the camera stays focused quite well, The image tends to be grainy which gets worse as light is reduced. The ergonomics are outstanding and the lay out is logical. My biggest complaints is this camera doesn't use a memory card for still images, it saves them to the tape, this proves to be more trouble than it's worth. Also the camera has no USB connections, it has Firewire and S-Video, but they omitted the most common type of connection. I have firewire but that isn't the point. And last and maybe least, you have to remove any tri-pod mount in order to change tapes, (inserts in the bottom) aside from these minor issues I am very happy with this camera and would recomend it as a good starter mini-dv cam.

I've owned this camcorder for several years with zero problems. Excellent for amateurs; easy to use with few drawbacks. Compact, light and user friendly for the most part. Canon always delivers for me.