Canon HF G25? Does not have the high frame rate you want for the slow motion requirement. You should be able to download the manual from Canon to verify that it does what you want. Certainly smaller than the shoulder-mount Panny... But the low light behavior should be better since it does have a much larger lens diameter and much larger imaging chip.
Hey All,
I am after a HD camcorder with the following features;
1 Full HD
2) Decent Slow Motion with variable sutter speed
3) MIC input
4) SDHC/SHXC
5) Good low lux around or 1.0 (many see 2 to 4lux which is ordinary in low light situations
6) Around $1000 AUD
Finally the smaller in size the better
Loosing one feature like Better Low lux performance, MIC input or Slow motion there are many great camcorders. But adding MIC in reduces many of them and add good slow motion with decent shutter speed takes the options to very few it seems.
I found one suitable
HDC-MDH1 AVCHD but the size and lux may not be ideal.
I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks so much in advance, Pete

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