I hope I am not hijacking.
I hope I am not hijacking the thread, but to stop any duplicate threads I thought it may be best to ask about the HV-40 here.
I have been looking at recommendations and specifications of the HV-40, but being in an area that Canon does not service well, I find that there are no units to look at and test within hundreds of kilometers. In fact, I have not found one store at all yet that has a unit in stock, or are planning on stocking one, and I am now calling 500 KMs away.
I want to put any camera I purchase next to a very specific roll so I need to know a couple of simple things for sure. I hope that someone with a PAL version of an HV-40 can edit and post online a very short uncompressed clip of a couple of dozen frames so I can see what it is capable of. It would help me immensely. All I need is for the video to be captured in 24p with no pulldown, and for the lens to be set to the forced infinity setting. If you can have a small object held at 5 feet, 10 feet and maybe 20 feet it would let me know how good the optics are on the camera (distances do not need to be exact). If file size is an issue, a dozen frames would be great as long as they are not compressed.
Any help would be welcome and appreciated.