You put your index finger just above the line on the front. That’s there so you can feel it so you don’t have to look.

The cam is built to be small, and functional. It is much easier to hold and film movies rather then a standard video camera.

The quality of the filming drop considerably when you switched to your POS cam.

You failed to mention the built in software that comes on the camera that is accessable when you connect the usb. You can use it on any pc with usb, with no other software, its right on the cam.

You also failed to mention that the cam can be used as a webcam as well.

As for it standing up, its a no brainer that you flip the lcd down to stand it. even better, it does have a tripod mount on the bottom, and walmart sells a nice little tripod for $9 that is about 12″ high and has bendy legs that you can wrap around things to mount a camera.

You also forgot the built in memory on the camera, although not very much.

you also forgot the software that comes with it that makes it easy to upload right to youtube or other media sites.

You also forgot about the sharemarking.

and what camera can you take out side one a super windy day and not expect to get wind noise. I have taken mine out on some fairly windy days and gotten no noise from wind. You must had a tornado near you osslt.