Canon Elura 60 Mini DV Digital Camcorder

I want to go for a cheap and reasonably good camco ...

Strengths: * attractive price * compact size * good video quality (except in low light)

Weaknesses: * poor video quality in low light ( this can be over come by going for elura 70, which adds up to price) * Motor noice while video is being recorded onto the tape (not sure in other camcorders)

Summary: I want to go for a cheap and reasonably good camcorder as I already have a digital camera. I was not looking for both still picture and video functionality. I wanted only video feature. This is good for outdoor shootings, cannot perform well in low light areas. I am not a professional video grapher and I wanted camcorder only when I go for outings. This serves my purpose very well. Quality of video is good in outdoors.

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Canon Elura 60 review

Strengths: Competitive price and very good features!

Weaknesses: No Found!

Summary: 2006-01-12 08:12:20 I don't think the low night performance is a weakness of canon elura 60. And I think the vedio performance is good enough. Sometimes when you record into tape, there is minor noise upsets you. But you can record into a SD card, (I use a 512M SD card) and there is no nosie bacause of directly read and recording. So enlarge your SD card!

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Elura 60 pc main board had connection problems

Strengths: Good video and nice pictures for a camcorder

Weaknesses: Not reliable for use when needed.

Summary: The e-mail I sent to Canon.

Hi ,I have a Canon Elura 60 the I bought from a store as a display but looked like new. I used this camcorder for maybe 10 hours before it would lock up and I would have to unplug both batteries and then it would work but not be reliable. Then I bought a used Sony hc30 and it is trouble free except for the still picture quality is not as good as the elura.So then I decided to fix the elura and bought a used for parts camcorder off ebay.This is when I found that the pc main board had connection problems mostly to the ccd and tape eject motor.When the connector is not perfectly strait it will short out and burn the power in from the battery to the board or the three small fuses in the board.So I bought two more camcorders off ebay this was still less then the 170.00 you want for the new board that they say is not an updated board and they do not recognize it to be a problem.Well now I have 3 elura 60s and one 1 elura 65 camcorders that all have boards that are dead in the same way. I used my first 60 to test all three .I was able on one dead board to solder the three fuses that I could see burned with a magnifier and bring it back to life but It would not eject the a tape.Now I see on the elura 70 to 80 to 90 models that you say Condensation is detected – If condensation is detected by the camcorder, the “Remove the Cassette” warning may occur.But I still think this is a connection problem with the pinch style connector you have to the pc board and the video board.So now I am thinking of buying the elura 90 and I am asking if this camcorder is updated from the what I see to be a board defect. And if I order this new pc main board for my Elura 60 will this updated and trouble free.This is on ebay all the time,cgi.ebay.com/Canon-Elu...

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