On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 05:32 AM, finalcutexpress at mac.com wrote: > You are probably right -- Canon has a better set of core features and > they do not insult you like Sony by just ommitting them. What are > people's thoughts on this? When I bought, I got a Canon ZR 50 for the reasons you mention. The Canon had features that mattered -- optical zoom, manual white balance, etc. The Sonys seemed to be going more for "gee whiz" types of features -- sepia tone (I can do it in post, if I really need to), megapixel digital camera (umm... that's what a digital camera is for), etc. Geoff