The well-respected video camera review and information site CamcorderInfo.com has selected their favorite camera for 2006 and it’s the Canon Elura 100. I did a bunch of camera research this year to buy a camera for my son, for art school, and the Elura was the one we almost got.
It really does look like an amazing machine for the money (under US$400). We ended up deciding to go with the 3 CCD-equipped Panasonic PV-GS300. It was voted Miss Congeniality. Actually, it was voted CamInfo’s favorite in the under $600 class (you can actually get it for under $500). They think it was sort of unforgivable that Panasonic dropped the headphone jack (no headphone jack!), the focus ring, and some other features found on the previous model, and we agree. But it’s still a great camera and I’m not sorry we spent the extra dough.
