I just got one of these "Canon DV7000" minicams from Goodwill.
It is a fake. Apparently, a company in the Far East relabels them to Canon, Sony, Akai, or anything else you want. They just stick plastic labels on the lens cap and the side of the camera. It is apparently really a "Nikia 7000", like the previous poster said.
The big lens on the camera is a fake. The picture is actually taken by the tiny lens underneath it. The big lens only goes to the viewfinder. Hence you can take pictures with the "lens cap" still on the camera. Just don't cover the tiny lens with a finger as you hold the camera (which is very easy to do).
The zoom is fake too. It is only "digital zoom", which means that they just magnify the center of the picture, and the picture gets all grainy and pixelated and low resolution as you zoom in on something.
Best of all, the CD that came with the camera contains a virus or other malware. My Avista anti-virus software started screaming a siren when I tried to install the device driver. I see everybody asking for device drivers for this thing, and it seems that nobody has one that doesn't have a virus in it.
DRIVER NEEDED: Canon Canomatic DV7000 (Windows XP Home) [USB]
! What you have is a Nikai DV7000 camcorder
. I've been seeing a lot of these Canon fakes on Ebay these days. 
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