It might be a difficult thought to buy camcorder accessories once you have burnt a hole in your pocket by investing in a camcorder, especially if it a high-end one. Nevertheless, it it crucial to invest in some add-ons that are crucial to protecting and enhancing your camcorder and the videos you are going to record on it. For instance, a high quality camcorder case is a vital accessory. A camcorder case protects your camcorder from the elements and makes it easy to carry your camcorder on long journeys. It also offers plenty of room for other extras, such as memory cards, tapes or disks. For a DVD, Mini DV or Blu-ray disc camcorder, one needs to have plenty of extra disks and tapes on hand for storing the recorded videos. In case you use a flash memory camcorder that does not offer internal memory, it is important to buy memory cards, like a SD/SDHC card or a Memory Stick Pro Duo card, to store your recordings. Then come tripods and single-legged monopods! Despite being large, they are useful critical for occasions like long sporting events and recitals. A tripod ensures that video is steady and enhances the video quality.

Other camcorder accessories from the Japanese company JVC include a shoulder strap that helps carry the tripod from place to place. A shoulder strap for a small tripod is more viable than one for a full-sized professional tripod that can be heavy and bulky to carry. Another accessory is a low-budget light kit that can include work lights instead of actual film lights and using a shower curtain as diffusion. JVC, a well-established name in the world of camcorder accessories has a huge available range of camcorders accessories to accompany its JVC camcorders like the  JVC GZ-MG630 or the JVC GZ-MG680 and JVC GZ-MG645; all of which are Hard Drive Camcorders. Meanwhile, the JVC GZ-HD6 is a HD Camcorder and a Hard Drive Camcorder. Some other popular models of hard drive camcorders are JVC GZ-MG142, JVC GZ-MG132 and JVC GZ-MG430. Also JVC GZ-MS90EK and JVC GZ-MS120 are SD Camcorders while JVC GR-D820 and JVC GR-D824 are MiniDV Camcorders.