I am thinking about the Canon ES8400V Hi8 Camcorder with 2.5" Color LCD Screen & Image Stabilizer.<BR><BR>Main thing is it needs to be able to transfer the video to VHS tape with minimal fuss. Pretty ...

Is the medium really the message? First, I had a VHS camcorder, then an S-VHS camcorder and in the early nineties I did a lot of recording on the Hi-8 format. After that I went digital with DV tapes.