Originally Posted by tony404

hv30 with some lights will give you a nice picture. A sony is coming out that is built off the same technology as the ex1 but its $1300. And it has a hard drive not a flash one. I recommend against those. I had one for a year and the hard drive failed dumping all the footage on it. I had taken the footage off already it was vacation stuff. I had to reformat it and now I have a 1k camera just out of warranty that I stick in the draw because I cant trust it anymore.