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Hi Claus, I didn't explain myself properly about the breaking up of clips.
The HD7 will put breaks in where YOU put breaks in. If you captured 20 clips, you will get them all separate when you capture via firewire 1440CBR as you would expect.
If you leave the camera rolling for ages (I have need to do that for clients sometimes and it works fine) it automatically makes breaks in the files - presumably for file management purposes on the camera - of 3.43Gb (not 3.64 as I said earlier), but it joins them back together when capturing via firewire.
It doesn't join them together if you drag and drop the files to your computer using USB you have to rejoin them in FCP.
You must be pretty unlucky to have CF cards go bust on you… I have never had that, or even heard of it before. I kind of hope the HD7 will take the newer larger SD cards when the prices come down as I would like to be able to record to SD card in the future, it might make the batteries last longer. Currently, I just use the SD card for stills and the HDD for video.
And yeah, having all the most used features of manual filming to hand without having to scroll through menus every time is a real plus for the HD7, especially if you're having to work quick for a client. For instance, just working in Av priority mode and dropping the exposure a stop mid shot is a handy thing indeed. Or setting up a quick change of shutter speed and so on.
On another point, I find the low light capability of the HD7 much better than my experiences with the A1.
The only thing is, the HD7 tends to oversaturate a little to my eye, and I always like to tone it down a bit in editing.
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