digital camcorder can i capture analogue using dv input

[luvvbuzz]

i am hoping to get a new camcorder, a digital type, although i have no idea which one yet. i would really like to get one which i can input and analogue video source into and capture the video and audio onto the camcorder. does anybody know of a camera that can do this or have any model recommendations? i know alot of cameras have a dv input socket but i am not sure if an analogue source could be plugged into that for capture? if i have posted in the wrong place i am sorry, i was a bit unsure which topic this would come under. thanks.

[guns1inger]

Many of them can accept analogue input for recording to miniDV tape, and a lot will act as a DV converter allowing you to transfer VHS (for example) to DV on the pc directly, without having to record onto tape miniDV first. What they don't have (or at least most don't have) is a TBC for keeping the signal nicely phased and clean. For simple transfers of old home movies, this may not be an issue. If you wan't someing more robust for analogue to DV transfer, look at something like this
http://www.canopus.com/US/products/advc-100/pm_advc-100.asp

[luvvbuzz]

thanks for your reply, what i was asking for was so i could record whilst i am on the move, so i wouldnt have a computer with me to capture to if you see what i mean. i will be using a small survilence camera to transmit a camera but i need to transmit the source video to a recordable piece of hardware that i can plug the reciever into. i thought if i got a digital camcorder i could set up the equipment to send the signal to the camcorder and record it that way. the transmitter uses normal analogue connectors, the yellow red and white rca type ones.

[qlizard]

If you wan't someing more robust for analogue to DV transfer, look at something like this
http://www.canopus.com/US/products/advc-100/pm_advc-100.asp

Its probably irrelevant to his use, but why do you say this is more robust? I've understood analog-to-digital pass-through to be essentially the same as using an analog to DV device like the ADVC-100. It doesn't have TBC, so what else does it have that would make it better?