I played this afternoon after work with the camcorder — tried out some of the filters. VERY impressed. It’s got really nice quality. Image stability is reasonable although I’ve convinced Laurie to let me get a “Merlin” from Steadycam when they release it. We took some video of Breighton outside and then tried out the infrared shooting mode (with accessory infrared video light) to shoot some video of him in his room — in pretty much pitch black. I couldn’t really see him without the camcorder. Breighton’s got the video segments posted on his blog.
I’m very happy with it. Now I can order the wide angle lens!
The only thing I’m not happy with is video editing. iMovie is really easy to use and quite nice, but it’s TERRIBLY HIDEOUSLY slow on a Mac Mini. Time for an upgrade! 🙂 Now, let me go duck and cover before Laurie decks me!