i don't believe in nice cameras-they capture your soul. damn white devils.
what you want is an external box, canopus is where to look first, that accepts legacyish-inputs and then uses firewire(if possible) or usb to pass it to your computer where it's software's job from there on.
the external thang should be no more than 150. not sure what your goals are with the material, but if you have the horsepower and money i can recommend some software, if you're not the good thing is the actual codecs to create archival shit cost zilch. and there's nothing commercial that's ballpark in terms of speed and quality.
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"She has no waist, no arse...an interesting face...but all we are really worshipping is two bags of silicone"
Martin Amis "honoring" katie price with a character bearing some of her traits