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S Wimsey, Unregistered user Wednesday 20th of August 2008 05:22:07 PM: If you are in the market for an HD camcorder (trust me you are if you tried plugging in your non-HD camcorder into your shiny 42inch+ HDTV and gawped at the shocking image quality) then this one is an abolute corker.
I\'ve spent the last 3 months researching this, and the canon won hands down compared with items from Sony, Panasonic, and Sanyo. My needs include being light weight (so HDD is out).
Initially I loved the Sanyo Xacti VPC1000, small, light, cheap but no optical stabiliser which for recording sports (Wakeboarding, windsurfing, etc...) is vital. Video quality was appalling.
Then Panasonic ?SD5 / SD9 came along, but felt cheap in terms of build quality - also the colours were too vivid and not lifelike.
The sony\'s were nice, but you have to pay a lot for optical stabilisation - don\'t go for one with only the digital (i.e. not supersteadyshot) I think. Also the 8GB or 16GB sticks are v expensive for the Sony\'s are are memory stick rather than SDHC. I purchased two 8gb sticks for £15 each off amazon - enough for 1 hr recording at max full HD.
Finally the canon - brilliant in every respect - right weight, feels tough enough but not overengineered.
Picture quality, image stabiliser, manual controls all brilliant.
All I need now is Pinnacle 12 and a decent desktop computer to edit the footage. Until that happens I\'ll just buy cheap HDSC cards, and delete rubbish footage scene by scene.
Enough said. Buy one. Now.....You will not be disappointed.
