PROS: excellent video quality, good size for travel and home, 5+ hours of video on internal hard drive, cheaper than comparable solid state camcorders with internal drive, 10x zoom, easy menu navigation (although I'm used to menus from other Canon camcorders), very easy to use, feels good in the hand, image stabilization is pretty good, HDMI output is handy for watching videos straight away on HDTV , good LCD screen CONS: AVCHD format is good for viewing directly from the camera, but working…