Buy yourself a Panasonic pv-dv702. It's a great cam! You won't believe the footage I already got. It's small, inexpensive, but shoots great video. Just ask anyone here about it. Ask that Frank guy, he knows. Before I bought it, I read good stuff about it on dv.com. Mostly from him.

<<<-- Originally posted by John Gaspain : Good call Glenn,

OK I found a better deal: $1,011.95 shipped from Buydig.com

Good? -->>>

Someone here just recently had a sketchy experience with buydig.com, cancelled the order, and ended up going with B&H. Turns out the shipping from B&H was much cheaper, although the camera itself was a bit more expensive, so it balanced out mostly.

I'll see if I can find the thread.

EDIT: I can't find the thread now. Can someone else post a link to it if they know the one I'm talking about?

Profeel seems like a slighlty disorganized but benevolent place to do business. I've had one experience with them, and it was, ultimately, good, although they did misplace my order at first.

Alright! I just ordered a 953 from buydig...now i just have to wait for it.

Thanks for the help!

I'm sure you'll like the cam. It's a solid little machine with good manual controls---just don't try shooting with it in the dark. :)

Well I just visited camcorderinfo, and it only took 6 minutes to get into the main page...then I gave up. I'm not knocking the site but I've always found this site to be over-bloated. Even www.dv.com is a way faster, and find that site rather slow since they down-graded with their upgrade about 2 years ago. It's a shame. The only time I visit camcorderinfo is when I'm at a high speed Internet connection somewhere.

I agree that the site is a bit of a trial to get into sometimes, and the content, well, I found it useful when first starting out with dv. I find it most useful when inquiring about sub $1000 cams. It has become a part of my cross reference routine for general, light research.



Congratulations John! Let us know what you think, before and after some snow shoots.

Here it is!

I got it today- it took about a week, 3 days processing & 3 shipping from buydig.com

Thanks for the help deciding on this great tiny camera.

I gotta go play now :)

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...1/fac0593b.jpg

Congrats! Now you tell people this: I'd rather have a MX5000 today, than spend a year's salary on something that'll be obsolete tomorrow.

http://www.dvfreak.com/mx5000ad.jpg

Already blended in with your rec. area there, eh John? Congratulations. Snow's up. Whatta cute lil' cam that 953 is! Makes my pdx10 look like a rhinoceros.

Ive been playing around with the fisheye, heres my results

16:9 with frame mode is stunning

small
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...a/faaff08f.jpg

big
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...f.jpg.orig.jpg