Hi Bill, Like I said before, or rather like I ment before but may not have articulated very well, if you compare them most cameras in the consumer-prosumer space will have very similar image quality. Good quality lenses are not terribly expensive now and all cameras from one manufactuerer will use one tape mechanism or very close to the same mechanism. So the differences are limited to the specifics of the glass and the size and number of chip(s) used to create the picture. More and larger chips give a more crisp picture and better low light, but in daylight or with good studio lights setup they're really all about the same. When evaluating what camera to get think about where you're going to be shooting, is it mostly outside in the sun or inside at events? At night Sony's Nightshot is pretty amazing. It looks decidedly odd but it can see in cases where even alot of people can't. The quality suffers but its the difference between getting the shot and not getting the shot.
Many news organizations now use highend prosumer cameras to reduce cost since the cameras are everybit as good for what they do as the much more expensive units they've used in the past. -Curt Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:41:20 -0400 From: Bill Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT-video camera To: Mercedes mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Color bars and the like are shown beside each camera for the reader to compare ..... it is not a word comparison but bar, graphic, and the like ....technical in nature with examples and explains/shows clearly DAYLIGHT SHOT compared ...... if the light is changed i.e. sun set the clear winner is $3,000 camera which is well designed for a RANGE of Light conditions .... The two camera have very close overlapping quality within a small range, in this case, Daylight ...... The review was not a Reader's Digest type, or Consumer Reports which keeps the viewer away from the technical data... Bill --------------------------------- Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.