Hi. I recently purchased the above camera and have been HUGELY
impressed with the image quality for stills. However, part of the
reason for not going true DSLR is that I wanted some video
capabaility. While I never expected anything like 'handycam' quality

I think I had  been posting on the wrong digital group and the Dimage is a
slr. Please advise.
Directions say to select accessory setting to use the wide angle converter.
But then all zoom capabilities are lost.

A couple of youtube videos of the new SP-550 UZ model:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEe7AoQendE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skCa4hXwFlQ
/Per