This is Sony's top end product that competes very nicely with the Canon XL1. Also a 3CCD favorite of producers and filmmakers. I know a wedding videographer who swears by this camera, and his backup, the Sony DCR-TRV900. The next model down in Sony's lineup. I don't think I have yet used the eyepiece viewfinder, because the LCD is so huge.
Every parent is really a documentary filmmaker.
This is a very light and easy to carry digital camcorder. Don't let it's small size fool you. It's packed with technology that rivals the big TV station Betacams. The big ones that the TV news reporters use. If the videographer uses a JVC KY27 series, you have it made in the shade.