Any comments on the Canon Optura 10 miniDV

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.