So I got home tonight, and amongst other things (the fact that I got to hang around with my girls), the video camera had arrived today as expected! Hooray!

I haven’t had much time to play around with it (especially since the miniDV tapes won’t be here until tomorrow, so I couldn’t record anything tonight), but it looks really cool. I’m particularly surprised in how small it is. It’s about 2 1/2 times the size of our camera, which isn’t that large itself. So I played around with it just enough to figure out how to use it (in basic terms). Probably one of the most unexpected bits I found out is that the LCD fold-out window/monitor is actually a touch screen, so you can actually press it with a finger and get it to do stuff that you want. How cool is that!?!

Anyway, I put it on to charge now for the night, so by the time I get home tomorrow (upon which arrival the tapes should be here), I can start playing around with digital video. Sweet!

So that’s about all I’ve got to write about tonight. Until next time…

–MZ