Many people hesitate when it comes to buying a high-def camcorder, but this one is probably worth the $1,499 it’s sold at. Why?
SD1 can take 2.1MP stills when shooting video. It’s smaller, as it’s tapeless and it stores your footage onto SD and SDHC - you get a 4GB SDHC card, which lets you record about 40 minutes of 1080i video.

It’s got a 3-inch widescreen LCD and HDMI output and that makes up for not having a HDMI cable. Except for when shooting moving objects in dark scenes, the image is flawless.
Downside is maybe that the format it records is not supported by many applications.