The first one-piece consumer camcorder, the Betamovie, came from Sony.

Like most consumer camcorders, the HC1 has only one sensor.

While they have some similarities to the smaller consumer camcorder, they differ in several regards:

Field tests have demonstrated most consumer camcorders (regardless of price), to produce noisy video in low light.

CCDs are the most commonly found type of image sensor in consumer camcorders and video cameras.

With an $800 consumer digital camcorder, a stack of tapes, a computer and some video-editing software, you could make a digital movie.

Rossi shot the film with a $300 consumer camcorder.

All right, go ahead, ask it: "In whose twisted opinion does a $3,300 price tag make this a consumer camcorder?"

For example, the GS200 is that rare consumer camcorder whose tape compartment opens from the top, not the bottom.

While no longer used professionally, many consumer camcorders have the ability to record in black-and-white.