What kind of Digital Camera or Camcorder should I buy?

[Tripitaka]

http://www.red.com/cameras/

No contest if you can afford it. If not, then maybe the Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD2000 or perhaps Creatives Vado HD.

TBH, the choice is huge and depends a lot on what your going to use it for. The above 3 cameras are very different but all superb.

[Tripitaka]

If you want to record what is happening on your screen isn't there any software available that will simply do this for you : spooling to a file.

After hours and hours I finally did find such an application on the Mac that wasn't severely hampered with demo limitations, I guess on the Amiga platform the situation is hampered even further.

Good point. Or you could perhaps, plug the Amiga video signal into a capture card or video recorder.

[Tripitaka]

It is true that Joe Average goes for a well known name nine times out of ten but for once I will defend Sony. I've used a lot of Sony video equipment, pro equipment mostly. I've worked in video and DVD since 2000 on and off. I'm a Sony trained DVD author and have used Sony cameras, SP Beta recorders, Digital Beta recorders, video and audio encoders etc. and I have found all of them bar none to be of exceptional quality.

That said, I hate the way they screwed Nintendo, Lik-Sang and most of all, the very customers they sell products to. Sony pro equipment often has custom connections and the leads cost, well to be honest, astronomical amounts of cash. If I was going to buy a camcorder today this would probably stop me handing my cash over to Sony.

[Tripitaka]

@ Cammy

What model is it ? I used to swear by Fuji film for my ol' 35mm. It was a Chinon CE4, awesome camera! Shame I don't have it anymore...
..Meh