Well it's not me spending the money...so I have to make doubly sure that it's the right camera (because i doubt this opportunity will rear it's head again any time soon). I'm still quite the amateur so I'm not really sure why the dough is being dropped on this, but I am not going to let this opportunity slip by.

Mostly, I will be going for a more filmy look....the problem with the panasonic dvx100 and the canon xl1 is that they are a good deal over $2000 (at least from what i've seen, i could be wrong).

I'm off to do my research on the gl2 and the vx2100. Thanks for some good ideas.