I was @swylie’s today, doing var­i­ous stuff, and saw an incred­i­bly cool cam­era.  Gim­micky in parts, but still unde­ni­ably func­tional and gen­er­ally cool.  I *think* it was a Sony DCR-TRV950 MiniDV cam, but wasn’t tak­ing notes… if you read this, Steve, feel free to correct ;)

The image qual­ity was drool-worthy (3CCD’s do that), with a full colour(!) eye­piece, as well as an enor­mous flip-out screen (if the cam­era is the TRV950, then it’s offi­cially 3.5″ — bloody huge, com­pared to all other hand­held cam­era screens I’ve seen, at any rate) which is touch sen­si­tive and comes com­plete with sty­lus!!  It was kind of scary, though — I kept think­ing I was going to poke a hole in the screen… was the only un-cool thing about the whole experience.

As for the gim­micks?  Hmm.  Blue­tooth.  Need I say more?  No?  Thankyou.  Net­work stream­ing over Blue­tooth is bla­tantly ridicu­lous, espe­cially on what is meant to be a pro­sumer class cam­era.  That said, I wouldn’t mind see­ing how it worked, just as a once off.  I can’t see it being great qual­ity, see­ing the through­put of Blue­tooth is appar­ently less than 750Kbps, as opposed to the enour­mous powah of Firewire (or i.Link, as Sony insists on call­ing it) at 400Mbps, but still… it’d make for a cool tech demo.

Long story short?  I want one…