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rhambone · 06-08-2008, 02:18 PM

Thanks Tom and Adam,

That gives me something to think about. With my older Sony Handcam with 30x Optical zoom I can tape football games pretty good, I didn't use a tripod either I usually rest my hand on my leg and follow the action from left to right and could keep it pretty steady.

I am still shopping around for a HD Camera I like. Tom I seen your camera has the image stabilazation and it's still shaky? I think I have a pretty steady hand and I don't really want to carry around a tri-pod but I never used an HD Camera so I might need something to keep it steady like you guys said.

I was just really concerned about the zoom too, I guess future models might be cheaper and have a better zoom but I guess with HD like you said Adam it would be expensive to give that HD quality on a long zoom.

06-08-2008, 02:18 PM	#4
rhambone My plasma is High Def. Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 5	Thanks Tom and Adam, That gives me something to think about. With my older Sony Handcam with 30x Optical zoom I can tape football games pretty good, I didn't use a tripod either I usually rest my hand on my leg and follow the action from left to right and could keep it pretty steady. I am still shopping around for a HD Camera I like. Tom I seen your camera has the image stabilazation and it's still shaky? I think I have a pretty steady hand and I don't really want to carry around a tri-pod but I never used an HD Camera so I might need something to keep it steady like you guys said. I was just really concerned about the zoom too, I guess future models might be cheaper and have a better zoom but I guess with HD like you said Adam it would be expensive to give that HD quality on a long zoom.