I am considering the z5u for wedding/event work, but there is little information out on that cam so far. Do any of you have any experience or thoughts on the camera. Also, the manual is not available as download from Sony's microsite yet. Do any of you z5 owners have an electronic copy from the CD that came with it that you can email to me? I'd like to see some of the feature instructions.

Thanks folks!

http://www.docs.sony.com/release/hvrz5u.pdf

Thanks. I don't know why I couldn't find that on Sony's website.

I'll let myself add here a link to fx1000 manual:

http://www.docs.sony.com/release/HDRFX1000.pdf

I could't find it either, thank you so much for the link!!!

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