I've got myself a new video camera

So I went out and purchased the Sony HDR-SR12 handycam instead of the Sony SR11 I was looking at, a little bit more expensive but I do get double the hard drive space. I've got to say I'm loving it so far, haven't had to much time to play around with it, but so far, awesome.

The upsides, the Zoom is amazing, it feels like I'm some kind of super spy. The NightShot mode is excellent as well, thought I was on an episode of Survivor trying it out. Low light is great as well, though there is a little issue with the auto-focus, though cut to manual and it's all good. The controls, settings etc I have found really easy to pick up.

The downsides, Super NightShot is actually really crap unless the camera is stationary or maybe I'm missing something. Working with the video files is gonna be a real learning curve, but basically I could just store all my videos on the cameras hard drive and play them back using a High-def TV or PS3, and if I'm really into backing up, burn the raw video files to dvd and I can play those on a blu-ray player.

Anyway, I'll update y'all when I've had more time with it.