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Title: Amazing picture...
Review: Speaking as a video pro, the picture is astounding. Set to the highest data rate, it gives you 40 minutes on the 4gb card. I shot Mariners baseball opening day, brought it home and plugged it in to the 50" plasma, and the family thought we were watching the news in HD! I couldn't see any compression artifacts - like I did at the mid-quality setting. Apple better announce support for AVCHD soon, or I may go crazy not being able to edit this gorgeous footage. I love the menus - the user interface is very intuitive. Being able to shoot the game, and erase the at-bats where nothing happened was awesome. 40 minutes was plenty when you can erase bad takes. My only annoyance: Safeco field has a retractable roof, the light was a combination of field lights, and natural light. Twice the camera decided to change the color-balance setting on its own. It probably thought it was pretty smart - I"ll have to set it manually next time so that doesn't happen...
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