Thanks Mark, the focusing was a concern of mine as it seems the placing of the focus dial is in a bad place and there is plenty of opportunity to hit the camera body with your finger as you try and find it. Maybe I'm wrong, if someone has come up with a way to over come this then I'd like to hear about it. I was also looking at the Panasonic HDC-SD100 which has a manual focus ring on the lens but it uses 3MOS and there are doubts as to whether they can cut it compared to 3CCD.