Canon VIXIA HV40

Summary: Being most cameras these days record to a hard drive or flash memory,i needed a minidv format hd camera.I was in mammoth ca snowboarding and i hit a mogel and when i got back to my room i found all my video from the past 3 days somehow got deleted due to the fact when your boarding down a black diamond its very bumpy and the vibration caused my hard drive to fail.So i came across this site hv40.net and ordered the camera overnite for like 200 less than msrp and the nexd day i had my camera in time for my afternoon run.I love the minidv format much better than a hard drive being if something goes wrong with the tape i can pop in a new one.With my harddrive canon wanted $600 to fix my old hard drive and the 6 hrs of video was not something that they were able to restore from the hard drive.So now im a firm believer in the tapes and this camera works great, my video quality is the same as in a shaun white video.Highly Recommended!!!

Updated on Dec 4, 2009

Here is the link to the site I found on Google. <a href="http://hv40.net" target="_blank"> Canon HV40 </a>