JVC Everio HD Camcorder: what to get if you are serious about making your own movies at home

This is the camera I bought a couple of months ago, and is by no means a starting camera. This this is ridiculous; the image is damn near perfect and it has a ton of memory on it, about 80 Gigabytes worth. It shoots in full HD, which means the images you capture are huge. Okay, they are Enormous, seriously. This is good for obvious reasons, but this takes up lots of memory on your computer when you upload your image files. That's another thing, there is no tape, just a hard drive, so when you start and stop recording, that section of movie saves as a file; you can scroll through files on the camera instead of rewinding and finding what you want that's hidden god knows where on a tape you don't even know is the right one in the first place. This is actually really useful, and it saves memory; you can delete the file you just shot if you didn't like it, and you can preview files on your computer before you upload them and say goodbye to a crap load of memory. In short, this camera is worth it if you are into this stuff.