I have a friend on another social site that posted some outdoor videos of his hiking in Vermont.  He posted videos from every season and they were awesome.  Then I realized that he was zooming while recording.  So I asked him if he was using a camcorder.  He said no that it was a simple pocket camera. 

Now, we've had some brand X's and Y's and they all had a video mode but none of them allowed us to zoom while recording.  So I had to ask the friend what pocket camera allowed zooming in/out while recording and he said he had a Panasonic DMC-TZ3.

Well the rest is history.  Brand X and Y have been passed on to others and now I have a DMC-TZ5 that I absolutely love.  So now we go out and take pictures and HD videos of nature.

We've found where the local mob of Cormorants roost at