Best Camcorders for High Speed

the double stabilizer made a huge difference and really minimized the movement.

+ machine gun shutter, the "high speed continuous" still mode was able to fire off 30 - 50 still frames in short order as if you're filming a cartoon, and the lcd is sharper than most hdtv's so you

due to the high compression used, video in pans and other camera movements does not fare well on a large screen hd tv.

- under a lot of movement, or fast motion, the camera seems to go down to just a few frames per second.

the unit more stability--both because the vado is then easier to hold and because the tripod adds a slight amount of extra weight, which helps eliminate some inadvertent movement as i'm filming.

keep the camera still in your hand, and make the movements when panning gentle or else you may have an unwatchable video.

stability, along with high-speed performance, and video/picture quality is what i needed to take along in my travels.

i have an 8gb high-speed card that works wonderfully.

the hard disk will skip and stop recording if the buffer is exceeded when there is repetative movement, whereas the hdr-cx12 just keeps on recording.

for some reason the sony seems to pick up more random hand movements than the canon.