Part of a camera test with the Panasonic HMC 151 AVCHD handycam, shot and uploaded at 1280x720, so best watched with the HD viewing option.
It was the middle of winter ("bitterly cold" - for England) when I had a weekend loan of this camera, so I set it up outside and used the remote control to operate it from indoors. The pre-record buffer was very useful, allowing me to press the record button after I spotted a bird arriving, but capturing the previous three seconds too. With a tape-based, which unlaces the tape after a period on standby, I would probably have missed the first 5-10 secs after the bird arrived, whereas with this camera it was easy to capture the arrivals too!
