This camera has moved on quite some way from the original XM-2. While it looks and feels very much like the XL-2 it is a fair bit heavier and can be tiring when doing long hand-held shots. So far I use it primarily for tripod shots.
Having worked with the SD cameras (XL-2 and XM-2) I found that moving to HD brings a totally different clarity and so it has become virtually impossible to mix and match in the same shoot. No amount of tweaking at the camera level or later in post can bring footage from SD and HD cameras (even HD shot in SD) into anything near compatible – pity 
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Recently I converted a bedroom into a chromakey studio and this is where the XL-H1 excels. Using the SDI port, I have 4:2:2 broadcast quality and it is a snip to get good quality chromakey – phenomenally better than the XL-2 which gives a very poor result (in studio). Will be posting some shots from my virtual studio shortly.
