The Editcam II, both DNS-21W (FIT CCD) and DNS-201W (IT CCD) are newly designed compact camcorder in Avid/Ikegami DNG family, employing Hard Disk Drives as a recording medium in a digital non-linear environment.

Also newly designed compact, pocket-sized FieldPak called FP-S4 and newly designed circuits make the compact and lightweight camcorder body possible, without sacrificing many useful features of the Editcam system such as,

Editing function can be performed with an externally connected laptop computer.
The camera section employs high performance 520,000 pixel CCD's and digital processing circuit to obtain superb picture quality and an excellent signal-to-noise ratio. It inherits Ikegami's high quality digital process color camera technology and combines this with a sturdy magnesium body and rock solid stability. Yet, its new design reduces its size and weight by 20% compared to the DNS-11 and DNS-101, and make it almost the same size as the HL-V77 series DVCPro camcorders.

Power consumption has been improved from 40 watts to 30 watts (depending on operation conditions). The camera is ergonomically designed, with the most frequently used knobs and switches in easy to access position.
A laptop PC can be externally connected and used to control the DNS-21W/201W for editing via an optional Remote User Interface software.