I quite like the Sony range. Like the Sony Z5 or the Sony Z1. :) x

I got a very good chance to test my new camcorder yesterday recording my son's school concert sitting in a middle of a dark concert hall and using a monopod for my exercises. Surprisingly the camcorder did great. I got a very stable, bright and sharp picture. It was even more interesting because I saw many people sitting closer to the scene and shooting with their camcorders. Not even close! Their images were blurring, with white dim, color noise especially noticeable at the dark parts of their frames, etc. I didn't see anything like that on my camcorder screen while shooting. And the same nice picture appeared when I copied the footage from SDHC to my computer when I got back home. The 60p mode is unbelievable! I was also surprised with absolutely sharp borders between white dress of the musicians and very dark background even when they were moving on the scene. It's a mystery for me how Panasonic did that keeping in mind a small size of this camcorder and optical effects like diffraction that should be there. Even the maximum optical magnification was great. Sadly for me, this "toy" shoots even better than my Canon GL2 camcorder that I bought several years ago and already used to record several dozens of tapes. The progress is very obvious. Of course, GL2 has a lot of other features being a semi-professional large camcorder with a large lens outside and fluorite lens inside. But for a small Panasonic SD90 for its price the quality is unbeatable. I'm pretty sure now that I made the right choice first reading on the Internet and searching for the best camcorder of this particular size and price range before I bought this model.