Spillicus

Have you looked at something like a Sony NEX-3N?  You can get one with the 16-50 powerzoom lens for about $450, and image quality would be very good, probably even better than the RX100.  It is an...

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My kids are the same age; I just let them use the cameras on our old phones that have been replaced the last time we upgraded.  They're happy with that.

Nice.  And you just got a nice new camcorder while you were at it.  I agree with corkcampbell about getting a prime, although I'd go for the 35/1.8, I think that focal length is a little more...

Seems kind of expensive for a used 55 to me

That's surprising, I thought most insurance companies offered that.  Sometimes it's called a rider, sometimes a personal article floater, but something like that. If yours doesn't, you might look...

If you are going to have a somewhat expensive camera and plan on adding things like lenses and accessories over time, you might want to look into a valuable personal property insurance plan.  You...

Since you are using Amazon to handle payment processing, does that mean we can use Amazon gift cards to pay at Gearshop?

I can't say for sure that Sony isn't competing with Canikon well; they started off with such a small market share anyways, that even if it doubled, say from 3 to 6%, Sony would probably consider it...

RAID 5 is your friend.  Minimum 3 drives, the capacity of 1 is lost to parity info, but it writes in a very fast striped mode and is fault tolerant to a drive failure.  2TB is a lot of video.  I...

I look at it the other way; compared with the NEX5, FS100 footage on the internal codec isn't so different (a little better for FS100, but not miles).  But if you output to the external recorder in...

Agreed, compression is probably the issue.  What will be interesting to see is how much is hardware versus software.  I have no idea what it takes to make the image processing system in the camera...

I don't think Sony is trying to protect their camcorder line; if you look at camcorders like the NEX-VG20, it uses the same compression type and data rates.  You have to go pretty far up the food...

Another big difference between the C300 (and other video focused cameras) and NEX cameras is compression; the C300 does 1080p with 4:2:2 compression, so it has double the vertical resolution of the...

Another vote for the Tamron 70-300 USD.  I have this lens and really like it, and focusing is fast and quiet so I use it for video too.  I've used it a lot for kids sports; outdoors it is...

I think the term "standard DVD" is referring to the DVD format, which would be a downgrade in quality.  But you can use a writable DVD disk, the physical kind, and format the disk as a Blu Ray.  It...

That's only true for raw, uncompressed video.  But the video from your NEX is recorded in AVCHD and so undergoes quite a bit of compression.  And remember, video is not just a stream of still...

Yes, you can output directly from the camera to PS3.  There is a PS3 version of that Playmemories program for your computer called Playmemories Studio.  It lets you view and download pictures from...

A 16-50 F/2.8 would be an enitrely different sort of lens than the kit one.  I agree with you that the current E-mount power zoom 16-50 is a good little kit lens for compact size and low cost and...

Well, the A-mount version is $750 or so, but doesn't include (or need) stabilization.  So probably at least $1000 I'd guess.