[Robert Floutier]

Craig I really appreciate your help.

So essentially I would need to find out what firmware the camera has currently? (how do I check this? baring in mind I bought the model 2nd hand)

lets say my firmware was not up to date, how would i go about making it so? and briefly what exactly is it? is it software?

Once updated i would buy the cards themselves (any you would reccomend? is there a quality drop for SXS to SDHC cards?) along with the adpaters and im ready to go?

taking in consdieration there is a slight delay in record time?