impressed with pluto's sony hc-30. that looks to be the same quality as the sony pc-100, 109, 1000, all excellent cams.
a strong light glare on a performer, filmed on 8mm (or even mini-dv), can not be cleaned up, and the 8mm quality looks like vhs compared to mini-dv. no offense, but either a triple chip mini-dv or one of those carl zeiss lens sony's are as close as you can get to pro quality, at a consumer price.