Any comments on the Canon Optura 10 miniDV
 

Any comments on the Canon Optura 10 miniDV

I've read somewhere that they're very noisy, that the camera noise can be heard in the integrated mic.

I also read that the image quality is very good, for a camera of that price.

I'll be paying about 370 USD for one, brand new in the store.

It that worth it?

Gave it about 10 minutes to search G and didnt come up with noise issues.
I did come up with a few sites that give reviews and had found
alot of online stores give it full stars. But some gave out that the
battery does not last a great deal of time between charges.
Also sent an email to sales at canon and just noticed it bounced back, so
I stopped the search after that.

"This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed."

hmmm, I seen that you bought it, on your other post. I think it was a very good buy, well done.

Thanks Monaro. I spent about an hour with different search engines.

I found only one rant about noise.

For short-duration of the batteries, I don't care really that much because my still cam (Canon OES 10D uses batteries that fits on the video cam as well, so it saved me a bundle of $ buying spare batteries. I already have 3 still cam batteries. The video cam battery does not fit inside the still cam though, the shape of the battery housing is not the same.