CAMCORDERS

    A camcorder is a portable video camera with a built-in videotape recorder.  It captures images and changes them into electronic signals for viewing on television.  Many people like making home movies with camcorders, partly because their images are recorded on videotape.  Unlike film in older home movie cameras, videotape needs no developing.  Videotape can be erased and recorded over many times, but film can not.  In a typical camcorder, the user selects a scene to record by viewing it through the eye pieceof the viewfinder.  The view finder is a minature TV screen with a magnifying lens.