It sound incredible. You can mess around wih all kind of filters, but a simple way is to 'fool' your white balancing, by balancing on a light blue colour. This will shift our image towards yellow. Apple's position on FireWire drives goes back to early early FireWire drives before drivers, bridges, etc., were proven. We have sold hundreds and hundreds of FireWire drives that do work when properly configured and connected.
Some configurations can be cranky.
Some FireWire cables can cause issues due to lack of shielding and gauge of wire, etc. Also connecting multiple devices to the same FireWire port can be an issue in some cases with some computers. And there is a difference in FireWire ports to contend with and the same is true with various bridge technology used in making the EIDE to FireWire bridges. All modern ATA and FireWire drives do multiple times that rate. But remember the rate is one thing and having a clean stream of data is annother.