Not bad at all

Had this camera for a week now. Worked great for capturing the kids' soccer games, a school play, and just general tomfoolery around the house.

We are looking forward to a summer vacation and plan to give the camera a serious workout.

Couple of points to consider:

1) Great camera for its price range ($427 & free shipping from Amazon.com) -- you need to drop ($900 to move up significantly in quality of picture).

2) You'll need a Firewire (IEEE1394) card for your computer, if you want to bring in your digital videos and edit them, or burn them to DVD.

3) The camera takes still pictures, but I would invest in a quality 3 or 4 megapixel digital camera for that and only rely on this video camera when you are caught unprepared.

In summary, I am very pleased.