Thanks, Kaushik. I need to buy a decent tripod with a fluid head. The above was shot with a monopod and crappy head.

Yes, great footage. That's quite a pullback shot on Lincoln, wow. This is probably a loaded question and there is probably a forum you could point me to, but I'll ask-
Do you use an auto filming mode? or are you getting in there and manually adjusting
A/S?

Hi Hoop -- these shots were all done in auto mode. I shot these clips on my way home from the store right after I bought the camcorder, so I didn't have time yet to get familiar with the manual settings. I used a monopod, no tripod, so the video is a bit shaky. No post-editing either; I just imported the clips into iMovie on my Mac and exported them to a Quicktime movie using MPEG4 compression.

Wow. DC does lend itself to amazing visuals...

great footage! I really impressed! I bought HF10 couple of days back and was trying here and there and notice that when I go in low light mode I am seeing grains :( though when I look at your footage it does not have any. Should I consider something before taking any low light shot!

you can change the white balance setting and sometimes it just looks grainy on the cameras screen but not when you put it onto the computer

looks great... good job
i hope i can take it like that too