A Digital Video Camera is a Must

My brother convinced me to buy a digital video camera a few years ago to take with me on vacation. I had always taken my regular digital camera along with me, but had wondered about capturing some of the moments live so that we could watch them as a family for years to come. Now that I have done it, I will never go on vacation without one again.

The first place we took the digital video camera to was New York City. We have family up there, and I wanted to show my family back home all of the sights and sounds of The Big Apple. Sure enough, we captured things on tape that would just not have been the same with a camera, such as my daughter looking at the Statue of Liberty for about three minutes. She just kept looking up at the monument and would not divert her gaze, because she was so impressed. It was the cutest thing ever.

Nowadays I won’t go anywhere, or do anything, without one of my digital video cameras. I have a little Kodak Playtouch for shooting around the house, and a GoPro HD Hero2 for capturing my adventures on my mountain bike. And of course, if I’m ever caught out without one of my high-end video cameras, there’s always the one on my cell phone in a pinch. I don’t know how I ever lived without these handy little devices. It’s just fantastic the way video allows us to have almost as much fun re-living our adventures and vacations, as we did making the memories in the first place!