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Old July 20th, 2005, 10:58 AM   #1
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Fairly comprehensive HD100 image gallery now online

Howdy from DV Expo East in The Big Apple,

I'll make a general announcement about DV Info Net's new Image Gallery (see new link in the nav bar above) sometime later tonight (hopefully), but for now, those of you who are interested in the JVC GY-HD100 can get a first look at our Gallery plus some photos of the HD100 which you haven't seen before.

There are other HD100 images online at other websites, but I think this one is the biggest yet, with more images and larger imagse sizes. If you're a lurker and not a DV Info Net member, then you're limited to just the image thumbnails and descriptions. You need to be a registered DV Info Net member to have access to the full-size images.

Our new Image Gallery is located at http://www.dvinfo.net/gallery/index.php

The HD100 image gallery is composed of more than sixty photos from the JVC booth at NAB2005. The direct location of the HD100 gallery is:

http://www.dvinfo.net/gallery/browseimages.php?c=13

That category is divided into sections covering the stock, studio and cine HD100 configurations plus the P+S Technik Mini35 option and more. Enjoy,
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Old July 20th, 2005, 11:43 AM   #2
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Thanks Chris! Good to get some additional looks at the HD100...
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Old July 20th, 2005, 01:09 PM   #3
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Not completely happy with...

How the camera mounts only to the front QR shoe, leaving the back dangle in space. In a decked-out situation, if I put a monitor on a bracket on the rear, add a A/B adapter plate with a Hytron100, on the front a 3 stage mattebox/eyebrow/flaps,wide angle supplement and on the top shoe the 80gig HD I fear the camera will snap in half. I've already done that to a DVX100a and it wasn't pretty. I'm pretty certian the front shoe is the same as our CineAlta uses. Even looks like a Sony VCT-U14 QR shoe. Only 4 (or 6) bolts hold that front shoe on, the rest of the weight sits on the back alignment spud. And what of the balancing and centering? Seems a bit forward on the stix. 6 weeks and counting 'till shipping. Any comments/suggestions?
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Old July 21st, 2005, 01:58 PM   #4
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Wow! Learned at least a couple of new things!

Thanks, Chris, for the gallery. After going through them, I almost feel as though I've handled the 100 myself. Certainly you've shown a couple of things that interested me.

One was that the JVC site mentioned the IDX battery system as being an accessory, but without definite info. Now that I've seen the setup, I'm glad that I'll be able to keep my 96 watt-hour batts and charger. The adapter seems to consist of a mock-JVC battery with the IDX plate attached to it. I wonder how long one could power the 100, sans light, on these batteries?

Another thing was the cheekpad monitor. When I first saw a photo of the 100, I thought that it was a speaker, but the literature makes no mention of it. You photo proves otherwise.

The tripod plate does look a lot like the old, familiar Sony type we all know. I still wish to know if I can keep mine, too.

Size comparison photo: With the IDX battery, the length is about the same as for the full-size camera, but the weight must be half. A huge bonus to us who only work outdoors.

About that matte box: is it a Croziel (sp?) I've never used one, but the knurled knob and lever intrigue me. Am I right that the knob provides a very fine geared focus, and the lever locks the setting? I realize that HD is less tolerant of focus pocus, so this might be very useful.

Thanks again for the pics!
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Old July 21st, 2005, 03:58 PM   #5
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Excellent job!
I couldn't tell if there's a backfocus knob on the lens--is there? The one I see just under the macro button could be back focus or it could be the release knob.
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Old July 21st, 2005, 05:31 PM   #6
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Hey Chris did you ever find out any information on the "box" that replaces the tape unit with a sdi output?

Depending on how much more this version of the camera costs this would be a better option for those who are crazy like me to edit uncompressed HD.

If it costs more than $1500 extra then I might as well just get a component to SDI converter or go with my current plan on getting a Blackmagic Multibridge.

That box sure does looked hacked however. Maybe it was a temp unit for the show and they will have a better looking one by shipping time.
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Old July 22nd, 2005, 07:06 AM   #7
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What I want to know is if that box is something you can switch out yourself. Then I could ues the tape deck when ever I'm out shooting post types of projects, but for my live IMAG stuff, I could slap that box on and CCU the cam...
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Old July 24th, 2005, 02:21 PM   #8
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You can actually hook it up to a CCU? Wow! So this means the tape mechanism is removable to insert other options?
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Old July 24th, 2005, 02:30 PM   #9
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Well, it's not removeable by the *end user,* no. That's just a conceptual prototype in those photos. I'll follow up on all the other questions posted here later on tonight hopefully.
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Old July 24th, 2005, 03:21 PM   #10
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I've got an order for two of them if they make that removable for the end user--that would solve a lot of problems for me...
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Hey Chris did you ever find out any information on the "box" that replaces the tape unit with a sdi output?

Depending on how much more this version of the camera costs this would be a better option for those who are crazy like me to edit uncompressed HD.

If it costs more than $1500 extra then I might as well just get a component to SDI converter or go with my current plan on getting a Blackmagic Multibridge.

That box sure does looked hacked however. Maybe it was a temp unit for the show and they will have a better looking one by shipping time.
Not SDI. That's Triax, for connecting the camera to a Live Truck or similar. It powers the camera, shoves video and audio down to the truck, and also sometimes has intercom.
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Old July 24th, 2005, 04:26 PM   #12
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Actually, from what I could see in the gallery, that same box had two SDI connections...
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About that matte box: is it a Croziel (sp?) I've never used one, but the knurled knob and lever intrigue me. Am I right that the knob provides a very fine geared focus, and the lever locks the setting?
Doug,

The knob is direct drive, not geared down. But it is a lot more accessible than pulling focus from the barrel directly, plus it can be marked by a camera assistant onto the white ring with a wipe-off marker. The lever is called a speed crank, and allows an assistant to make a very rapid rack-focus. This isn't really needed on a video lens where the total revolution of the lens is quite a short throw; on some film lenses, it can require several rotations of the barrel to get from one end of the focus scale to the other, necessitating the crank.
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Old July 24th, 2005, 05:43 PM   #14
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Actually, from what I could see in the gallery, that same box had two SDI connections...
I think you might have misunderstood me. The 2 silver ports are the Triax. It's carried over a certain type of BNC cable. Live trucks commonly use it, because it can be used for hundreds of feet with very little signal loss on small cables. CCU is the big cable. That thing you'd be pretty hard-pressed to do moving shots inside of a school with a Live Truck outside, whereas one of the local TV stations did this, using Triax. (I was there doing some filming on DV as well.)
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Old July 24th, 2005, 05:47 PM   #15
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Oh, my bad. I just made an incorrect assumption based on other people's reports of an SDI version.
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