We have a Panasonic HDC-SD1 and it's such an awesome camera. It couldn't be any easier to use and it takes really really great video. Both the sound and picture are amazing. It's a little grainy in really dim light, but it does way better than any other video camera I've seen. The down side is it's quite pricy. We got ours on sale for $1000 at Circuit City about a year ago.