On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 03:04:34 GMT, philmic@home.com (Michael Phillips) wrote:

>Well I am at the stage where I would like to purchase one of these cameras,
>but I do not know which one.
>Please Help.
>I would like one that does everything but I do not have 15,000 dollars.
>I like the 3 CCD systems. I am going on a trip to Europe and plan to take a
>lot of outdoor and indoor stills and movies. I would like to use it also
>for green screening for 3D Animation.

Well, you may be in luck...! ;-)
There are (critical...) reviews of many mini-DV
camcorders (VX-1000 [similar front end to DSR200],
VX-700, TRV-900, TRV-9, PC-1, PC-7, EZ30U, EZ1U,
XL-1, and GL-1 [and Beta SP, for comparison]) in
an article on my web page (with frame-grabs from
footage shot in five different situations, with
motion-video descriptions, and with sound-color
and background-noise descriptions), at...
http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/camcorder-comparison.htm
No easy answers, just the pluses and minuses
that stand out for each camcorder...