On Thu, 15 May 2003 22:26:17 -0700, "Larry R Harrison Jr" <larrytucaz@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I found a Nikon VN-300 for sale on eBay. I looked all over the

>place--including Nikon's own website--trying to find information on it,

>specifications, etc. I can find NOTHING.

>

>Anyone know of a website with information, or at least information on a lot

>of camcorders in general?

>

>Anyone with any experience with Nikon camcorders in particular?

I assume that this was Hi-8? If it is small, and

without a stabilizer, it may be a Sony TR-200 in

disguise, a rather good Hi-8 with an excellent

picture (though it was a "bottom-end" model at

the time). If it has a digital stabilizer

(picture softens noticeably when engaged with

this model - before Sony learned how to do DIS

right...), it may have been the Sony TR-400. If

it has an optical stabilizer and is fairly large,

it may be the really-excellent TR-700. I don't

know if other models were sold under the Nikon

label, or not... These days, good as these Hi-8

models were compared with others of the time,

or with later models, values are limited by the

falling prices of Mini-DV and D8 models. A

nice-condition TR-200 or TR-700 is still a very

good camcorder, though, with advantages in low

light shooting compared with most current 1-CCD

models (they used 1/2" low-pixel-count CCDs, as

I recall...).