A few weeks ago Canon announced the TX1.
I didn't really even know there was such a class of devices (haven't been paying much attention to the video world). Editing video is just sooo time consuming for me, it takes me forever to get around to it, and so I rarely shoot it. I have wanted to do more multi-media style stuff though, with audio, photo, and maybe short video clips. The camcorder is such a commitment to carry around though. And Cyndie has been wanting a small digital camera anyway.
So this thing just hits the sweet spot. Good (enough) quality short video clips, tiny, dedicated stereo audio recording mode (which is the killer feature for me). It's something we'll have on-hand basically all the time, and be able to do some fun stuff with I think. Seems like it will be much easier for me to import 15-20 minutes of video at a time, and once or twice a week stitch it together with some photos and audio to make a hopefully-not-too-boring short clip.
I'll be posting some of my attempts up here once it arrives.
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