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Camcorder Brings Zen to the Shoot – New York Times: Careful, though; even these enhancements are complications: more moving parts, more things to learn, more elements to track. Each additional feature nibbles away at that sense of mastery, that mental comfort zone. Same with digital cameras, whose movie modes also take good video: anything with modes is necessarily more complicated. [Simplicity rules. I have to sell that in the next week or so.]