Whether you're buying a video camera for the first time or replacing an aging analog model, digital is the way to go for good quality and flexibility. These are the reasons why digital camcorder sales went from almost nothing in 1998 to 6 percent of the video camera market in 1999. Sales skyrocketed again last year, even though the audiovisual market was flat overall. The Consumer Electronics Association reported in August that about one-fourth of all video cameras sold in 2000 were digital models. You pay for what you get You can spend as much as you want on a new digital video camera.
Professional models cost thousands of dollars.
Higher prices in that range generally get you images that have more pixels, or dots, creating crisper movies. Low-light filters work as advertised on most cameras. You'll sacrifice some color quality. The rest, as they say, are gravy. The number of dots in a single frame of video.