Brief reviews of new products, plus updates on items we've already featured.

Sony's first CMOS based consumer HD camera brings control and fidelity to images in a package that's hard to beat.

If you want your film to look good in front of an audience of thousands, these are the cameras you should be using.

Hitachi DZ-MV100A

Pocket-sized digital camcorders are becoming more capable all the time. We round up ten of the best

This Panny 'corder can shoot stills at a resolution of 4-megapixels, which makes it a match for a still camera

The SD1 looks stunning, and performs even better. If this is what AVCHD delivers, then we’re totally sold

The Panasonic NV-GS15 is the cheaper version of the NV-GS120, but you wouldn't pick it to look at them. It is not until you start to use it that you discover why it is $600 cheaper than its big brother with the three CCD's. The single, 800,000 (400,000 effective) pixel CCD produces average picture quality and certainly nothing that would compare with the 1.62 million (1.02 million effective) of the NV-GS120.

There was a time when semi-professional video editors and home-video enthusiasts had little choice but Adobe Premiere. Back then, video capture and output depended on proprietary hardware, which often only worked with its bundled software.

Great image quality and plenty of enthusiast features for a very reasonable price

At first glance the JVC GR-D230 looks very much like one of the DVD-R/RW cameras. But it's the stylish design and disc like LCD screen that leads you astray and it is in fact another of the Mini DV tape cameras with the cassette cleverly concealed.

Canon are only the second manufacturer in the Australian market to provide a flash based video camera (Panasonic is the other). Daniel Long gives his first impressions.

AVCHD support and some useful new effects keep this as the leading entry-level video editor.

The digital countdown has begun, but is your lounge room ready for the death of analogue television?

The marker has been laid down. Sony's pulled off another AVCHD stunner that will be hard to beat this year