I took this camera to Turkey and shot 2 months in various conditions. I used cinebags cb 25 for my travel needs. I also used pelican sd card holder. It can hold 8 cards in water tight hard case. Also, I have bracket 1 from
http://www.bracket1.com . It holds my wireless receiver. Yes AVCHD is not the best format for your NLE. But I transferred my SD cards to my Mac book pro's hard drive. 16gb holds 99 minutes of 720 24p HD footage. 6x 16gb cards of footage was in my hard drive as backup. I am still going over my footage ( log and transfer is a bitch) so far, I am very happy. It also complements HVX 200 very well. I mixed footage of both cameras.. and only I can tell which is which...