What are the Different Types of Camcorders?
Camcorders are portable video cameras which can record images and sound to some form of media, either tape-based or digital. Camcorders have been around since the early 1980s, with significant technological advancements achieved at the beginning of the 21st century. The earliest camcorders recorded to either VHS or Betamax tapes, allowing for easy playback in home video players. These camcorders were quite bulky, as they contained an entire video recorder, along with the lens and camera device. This didn’t stop them from becoming quite popular, however, as many people used them to replace traditional still cameras when recording weddings, birthdays, and other important events. By the late 1980s, two innovations had allowed camcorders to shrink substantially. One was the release of the VHS-C tape format. VHS-C was fully compatible with standard VHS tape players by using an adapter that the tape fit into, but it was much smaller than full-sized VHS tapes, allowing camcorders that used VH
