I am embarrassed to say that I sold my recently acquired Sanyo HD1 video camera on ebay recently. I bought it only a month or so ago (again, on ebay). It shoots 720p HD video on SD cards. While it has some strong points (it is really small), it's low-light performance was terrible. Wait for Sanyo's HD3.
At Apple's developer conference in June, I had a change to go to this bizzare party that Sanyo put on to introduce their new waterproof video camera (sake with gold flecks in it). I got a chance to see it, and their new video camera that shoots h264 mpeg-4 -- the same stuff the iPod and AppleTV can play back. It packs more video onto a secure digital card (Almost 3 hours on a 4GB card) with quite good quality.
I just received the new Sanyo video camera (again, bought it off ebay) and I am really pleased. It is not a "pro" camera, but I learned a while back that there are more things important that pristine video -- a good story, and clear audio. The video can be ingested into Final Cut or iMovie -- so cool! I have an idea for a little documentary that I will shoot in a month or so.
I'll have some sample video up pretty soon.
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