New camcorder shinyness

My new camcorder, despite Pixmania and Parcel Force’s best attempts to thwart it, arrived today!

I’ve got myself a Canon MV30. There was much reading and weighing up the pros and cons of various HD camcorders, but I finally decided that the MV30 was the best choice. It’s had some excellent reviews, isn’t horrendously expensive (although it was pushing ¬¨¬£600!) and works well with iMovie on the Mac, which I’ll be using.

The only concern I really had was that it uses MiniDV tapes, rather than a hard drive or a memory card. However, tapes are cheap, and most of the reviews seem to suggest that tape is still the best option.

So, here it is, merrily CHARGIN’ MAH BATTRY:

I’ve only had a quick play so far, both recording onto tape and playing back through my HDTV (the camcorder has a HDMI port, which is nice), but I’m very impressed at the picture quality – even under yellowy artificial lights. That is, those in my lounge.