The Canon MV930 is a cheap MiniDV camcorder. We buy a couple of camcorders at work each year, and they’re normally Canons. So this one arrived last week.
And nice it is too. It’s got all the features we need, and it records onto SD cards and stuff, and is reasonably rugged and simple to use.
However. It has one glaring problem. You see the big white button on the back? That’s the Record button. You press it, and it records. You press it again, and it stops recording. Fine, yes? Well, no.
If you look through the viewfinder with your left eye (as I generally do as I have a weird eye phobia thing which is far too silly to discuss here), your nose presses the button. And the recording stops (or starts). Amazingly, your cheap DV camcorder becomes a working model of the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle. Excellent!
hmm design crapness of the year then. i also use my left eye so would be useless to me aswell.
beck