help buying a camcorder

[coatesy]

im buying my lass a camcorder for xmas and have upto £250 to spend
im after 1 with a lcd screen,can take a gd still picture but would like HD, record onto hard-drive or dvd dont want a memory card camcorder.
i know nothing about camcorders so could anybody help find me 1

 

[KDF]

Ive looked into and even bought one of the cheaper end HD camera's. Ended up selling the cheaper one (and by cheap I mean £200) and buying a £600 one.

The difference is like night and day. I can deffinatly recommend the Canon HF-100 as a top notch HD camera, records in 1080i and the quality is superb.

Unless you want to spend £600 don't bother getting an HD camera, buy an SD one for £100 or so.