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thank you one and all for your comments and words of wisdom

much appreciated

Hey Mike,
Don't waste your time with that camera.

Thanks Ionescu, coming from the spam king with no originality, that means a lot.

and when I said don't waste your time I didn't mean with video, I meant with that camera :-)

Mike, If you want a small camera to carry in your pocket consider the Panasonic GF2 or the Sony NEX 5, both with a pancake lens. They take stills and HD video and you can change the lens.

I sell lots of SD clips at poind5. Maybe 25% are NTSC or PAL. A Canon HV30 - 40 would be a good "opportunity cam" to have with you on sunny day. At least it produces HD. Seeing as 60% of the work is in the uploading, submitting and keywording it would be a good lesson in the video end to submit SD. But long term you need a camera which produces competitive images. I don't think SD clips are going to compete, unless the content is super unique.