It rocks for HD material, however I personally don’t like it for SD. I went back to my Sony PVM-9L3 for shooting SD. It nice and compact, easy to take on a plane though, I like having the waveform for reference, only wish it came it the IRE numbers! The Portabrace case that I have for it is pretty good, except for the hood, that needs a bit of improvement, too flimsy.
Just my .02 cents worth
Cheers,
KWS