You can´t judge the picture quality of a cam from web streams, period. Besides, Vimeo has it´s own life, sometimes the encoding is smooth, other times it is not very good. To really know what´s going on you have to download the original footage and play with it in your NLE. Having had a Canon HV20 and a XH-A1 I can say that the picture quality of the HM100 is far superior to both of them. The exception being low light when I would rate it about equal to the XH-A1. On the other hand the workflow is just plain fantastic. For my purposes (ENG, very short deadlines and a lot of traveling) the HM100 is simply the best choice bar none.

With you on that Matthias. Mine arrive today, I am still getting to know it, but judging by what I have seen of it today, I am more than happy with the purchase.