We got the HV30 as a gift when our son was born, and then were able to get this HV40 camera as test consumers, so we have used both. The bottom line is that for people that need and want a camera to shoot home movies, the HV30 and the HV40 are pretty expensive and complicated way to do that. I am not advanced enough to even be able to tell differences between them, but if you read other reviews, you can see that there are slight differences.
Honestly, I wish we would have gotten something simpler and less expensive. I gave it four stars because it is a great camera - the picture is AMAZINGLY clear - but really just about everything I could write in this review about the camera makes no sense to people like me who just want to shoot videos of their kids or family gatherings. The sound is good, the picture is fine, everything worked well as far as I can tell. It is a solid camera.
Based on what I have read, both the HV30 and HV40 are slight and expensive improvements over the perfectly fine HV20. Here is what I wish someone would have written in the reviews before I got this camera:
1) This is for people who are REALLY into shooting videos and want to do all sorts of fancy things and edit the videos and want to watch movies in high definition on your big screen flat television screen or make movies for public consumption.
2) It will take you many hours to figure out all the special features that this camera has.
3) You cannot hook this camera up to your mac computer without a firewire cable. If you computer does not have firewire capabilities, you cannot hook it up to your mac computer AT ALL (this applies only to the macs that came out in October 2008). If you have a mac, go ahead and buy a firewire cable with this camera if you don't have one because it is the only way to import the video into your computer if you plan on doing that.
I know this review will not be helpful to people who are advanced users or electronically gifted or really into new gadgets. But I hope it is helpful to people like me who just wanted a good decent camera to record home movies on.
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