Rik, thanks for the reply. Actually I don't know where the "Director of Photography" thing came from but I guess that's me.
I did several searches on technical sheets for camcorders etc. but came up a little short on some of the specs and pros and cons of real world use of the cameras. Some spec sheets might say "Shutter speed up to 1/15000 s" etc but I guess I need to get some hands on just to see how user friendly and useful they really are. I didn't fine anything like dprewiew.com for digital still cameras. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough.
I just discovered this site today and it looks like an excellent resource.
