Before you look at any other camera...

Take a look at Sankyo's reputation. A legendary company, started making 8mm film cameras in 1957, their experience lead to this camera. XL stands for eXiting Light shutter, 220 degree wide. Coupled with fully automatic exposure control, filming naturally in low light conditions has never been easier (naturally there's a manual over-ride for your special shots). What else to say besides it comes with an ultra fast f/1.2 lens with manual or power zoom and macro focusing. The viewfinder is large and exceptionally bright, split-image range-finder will give you precise focusing and to sum it up, you could be looking at some pretty exciting films soon.