GH1 vs Camcorders and other Stills Cameras  Started Mar 7, 2009
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Stills Cameras Mar 7, 2009  The previous thread hit the 150 max,
and that stopped me from answering at least one person's
question, so I'm responding here:  To my untrained eye, the HF10
takes as good or better video than anything I have seen yet,
including broadcast 1080i on my plasma 50 inch TV.  Sounds like
a perfectly fine camcorder, and nothing you should be unhappy
with.  but how would the video be better? Since they are both
1080i, wouldn't the results be at least similar to my untrained
eye on my HD TV? In what ways would the GH1 be better?  Two
fundamental advantages of the GH1, neither of which may be
signfiicant to you and I'm certainly not saying you should get
the GH1 when you already have a camcorder.  The advantages of
the GH1 are: Depth of field-- the much larger sensor on the GH1
lets you have a shallower de