I am looking forward to get the Panasonic NV-DS50EN MiniDV Camera with the following features:

10X optical and 500x digital zoom
PCM Audio Dubbing
Ilink + USB
800,000 pixel CCD
0 Lux Nught View

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The camera is available in India and I could not locate it on the Panasonic USA website, so I don't know if it is available there.

I wanted to know if this is a good choice as this will be the first ever cam i will buy.

As I understand, ILink is Firewire port and It offers direct capture for firewire upload to the computer.

Has anyone else heard of it?

Thanks In Advance
Sumit