Dear all,

I am looking for a cheap full HD video camera writing to a SD card (it cannot be a Hard disk).

The Panasonic HDC-SD7 seems interesting specwise, but I was wondering whether any of you had first hand experience with the beast?

Thank you.

Regards,
Bernard

Forget the question, I choose to invest in a Canon Ivis HF10 instead.

Cheers,
Bernard

I haven't purchased anything yet, but pretty well decided on the same Canon as soon as it get in stock here in Toronto.

Sounds OK for far but:

- The software provided for video transfer doesn't have a Mac version.

The informal advice of the - helpful - person who answered at Canon was to try out iMovie 08.

- The battery life seems poor.

I need to do more test to see whether the first charge of the battery (I am speaking about the high capacity optional one) improves on this or not.

Cheers,
Bernard

I did try and it seems to work mostly fine. I am seeing some posterizations in very dark areas, but it is difficult to say whether it is a Codec problem, camera issue or some limitations of iMovie 08.

Either way, the detail and sharpness appear to be pretty good when viewed full screen on my iMac 24 inch. I need to test this baby a lot more obviously.

Cheers,
Bernard