Sanyo's High-End Camcorder Boxes You In

Sometimes things just don't work out the way they're supposed to.

Take, for example, this review of Sanyo's(SANYY Quote) Xacti HD 1000 digital movie camera. I brought it along with me to test under real working conditions -- at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, last month.

The idea was that my producer-cinematographer Dee Robinson would shoot me with his professional Panasonic camera (with a Leica lens) -- and I would shoot him shooting me using the Sanyo HD1000. Both of us would shoot in full HD. In the Sanyo's case, that means 1920 by 1080 pixels. The Panasonic was also set at full 1080i. The plan was for Dee to edit everything together when we got home.

Notice I wrote that in the past tense. ...