Guy's,
Back to the cam. It is a great day (sunny for a moment then over cast and dull) today so decided to go out and try and do some filming.
The pics the cam produces were stunning. I filmed some quick moving objects (my dogs) and the sea washing up on the shore. But not a hint of the issues suggest with other cams, or the breaking up of the image on panning and fast moving objects.
I filmed some plants in the back garden which came out really crisp with superb reproduction of the colours on the holy tree we have.
It is impressive and well built . I similarly played back some daylight test footage through HDMI to a 46" 1080p Samsung yesterday and share your sentiments regarding quality and better implementation of fast moving and panning footage
Played the images through the supplied composite cable. I take it if I buy a HDMI cable the images would be better on the bravia?
Way better by far, youve been watching it as SD AFAIK composite doesnt carry HiDef .Component is quite impressive too
All in all the cam is superb at capturing images and sound is great under any daylight conditions, dull or bright. And after some more research which involved comparing the night time shooting to other models in the same price range and similar specs, it performs better than most and is at the top half of the cams I looked at.
I would agree but only insofar as you havent really compared it to the Sony HC3,5, and 7 and its own stable mate the HV20 ( which I have done a cursory comparison with) but you did say similar
specs and price range
Thanks everyone for your help, I'm now going to keep the cam, as there is no other cam (I've not found one) that is streets ahead of the HG10 in the price bracket of £550.
The HG 10 is the best of the Pack for AVCHD ATM . I wouldnt pitch it directly against the HDV models costing similar though ,They would be either at par, or better.
Streets ahead..?? Maybe not but it isnt as good as the HV20 for PQ although It is as good for build an egornormics and better in some cases for layout ,
Similarly with the HV20 though there us nothing less than £1700 that is better although I consider th HC7 to be fairly similar. Sony didnt do themselves any favours by removing some of the more useful features the HV20 has. The HC7 isnt actually cheaper as a result
I hope to do an HG 10 user review thread shortly and hope you can post in it
ATM I have one little bone to pick with Canon:It has No SD ability
and in common with all current AVCHD camcorders it cannot output downconverted SD in hardware on the fly like HDV models. Given that DVDs are the format a lot of the video will end up in I think it is a big oversight
It is the case that even those without "AVCHD friendly" hardware would be happy to buy it now and move to using AVCHD later instead of not being able to do much right now
And there is the little matter of playback and editing on PC but nothing , I guess a little Hardware upgrade of your PC and software purchase wont address