Compatible Camcorders for Mac

Does anyone have any ideas as to what camcorders are compatible with Macs? I want to be able to transfer video from a camcorder to my Mac. I haven't purchased a new camcorder yet and want to be well informed before I make a mistake.

My Sony Mini-DV works via FireWire. So, any Sony with iLink should work. I know it's not a camcorder, but the Flip Video imports easily as well. The upside to the Flip is that I just copy video files over, and the downside is no control over specific clips. Advantages to iLink, or Firewire, is that iMovie will control the camcorder, allowing you to fast forward, rewind, etc and get that specific part that you want (or skip the part you dont). There really isn't a downside, other than file size. Higher resolution camcorders will import with a larger file size.

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http://help.apple.com/imovie/cameras/en/index.html?lang=en_US
iMovie 9 - cameras supported:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3290?viewlocale=en_US
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1014
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"..I wish Apple would tell me "why" a standard MiniDVD camcorder would not be compatible with I-Movie, because I can not think of a single logical reason.."
iMovie was designed to work with "DV" digital camcorders. These were, and are, camcorders which record video in a particular method onto DV, or miniDV, tape. iMovie wasn't designed to import or edit analogue 8mm or Hi-8 recordings, so it won't. iMovie can't handle an incoming analogue (non-digital) signal. (..But if you put one of those 8mm or Hi-8 analogue tapes in a Digital-8 camcorder such as the Sony DCR-TRV350, mentioned in the very first post, above, you can then import it as a digital signal through the camcorder's FireWire connection..)
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