I haven't seen any talk about the prototype shoulder mount avchd camcorder from panasonic that is fashioned from the dv mini models like the dvc 60 and dvc 7.

I stumbled across this video from WEVA's web site that shows it. Anyone think it'll have bigger ccd's or will it be a direct copy of the sd1 camera with a focus ring?

http://www.weva.com/cgi-bin/newsreader.pl?storyid=3752&type=i

(click on "click here to watch" link.)

Thanks for that link -- it's great to see my old friend Steve Golub from Panasonic. Hard to say what the chip size will be as it's too early to tell, but it's nice to know that they're pressing forward with that idea. Much appreciated,

Wow, a shoulder mount AVCHD format camera would be pretty cool, especially if it had enormous "see in the dark" CMOS or CCD chips.