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What camera does everyone recommend (one that you've had personal good experience with) to hook up to a laptop and record your swing? I've never done it and I think I need to. I've always had a "baseball swing" and my game is at the level that it's just not going to get any better until I fix my swing. I have my good (and bad) shots with my swing as it is now but when one goes straight its all luck and no skill... so I'm looking for ways to improve rather than just hoping I get better with more practice. I've been saying that for 5+ years now.

This doesn't really answer your question, mainly because I don't really know the answer to it. Personally I'm thinking your money would be better off spent on a series of lessons. You really can't get a digital video camera for less than $300, and anything of higher quality will run you $600-1000. For about $150-200 you can get a series of 5 or 6 lessons from a pro who has a digital video setup. Not only will you be able to see your swing, but you will have the services of a person who knows the golf swing a ton better than you, and will be able to see and know how to fix problems that you would never notice. I just finished my third in a series of lessons that I purchased, and I can tell you that in my case it has already been infinitely more helpful than if I was trying to figure it out myself.

Hopefully someone will be able to answer the question you asked, but I thoughy my two cents may be helpful.

Borrow a friends camera, or go have your swing analyzed by a pro

I would definitely get a dv camera, so that you can bring your footage back to the computer via firewire or the 1394 connection on your computer, that allows you to keep the highest quality for your slow motion analysis. Also make sure the camera that you pick has some basic options. Most cameras have a sports setting you can choose which uses a higher shutter speed, allowing you more frames for your swing analysis. In working with our school teams we use an inexpensive Panasonic, I think it was 289$ and have great results, We also use the home v1 software http://www.ifrontiers.com/consumer/default.asp which works great and is relatively inexpensive.
hope that helps. Curt