Reccomend me a Camcorder?

Well I have been into making shorts films for a while so I decided to buy one. I am going to edit the movies so I will probably need mini DV or a hard-drive camcorder. I am interesting in making

-Holiday
-Family
-Vacation
-Action
-Comedy
-Night

films so I need an all around cameras so I can do many types of short films. I have a budget of about $450 excluding tapes and accesories such as firewire. I already know all that ccd chip stuff so I just want reccomendations for the above listed and more types of filmography (if thats a word). By comedy I mean like the videos by smosh on youtube. I dont plan on making a whole series, just like short videos.

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