The New Panasonic HPX-300...
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$10k+ for a 1/3" camera seems dated.
RED's announcements and the new DV-SLRs have changed expectations. |
Too late.
Panasonic needed to do this a year or two ago. Now there are so many options it's hard to sift through all the camera choices anymore. |
CMOS is a huge offset for me, since this would still be impossible to matchmove accurately due to the Rolling Shutter.
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I don’t know about you guys, but a $10,700 camera that records to AVC Intra at 100MBPS seams extremely impressive. I just wish it was as small as Sony’s EX3 and JVC’s HM700 but then again all that horsepower might not have fit.
Here’s a couple of videos: Abel Cine Tech - Video: A First Look at Panasonic's HPX300 |
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HPX300 looks impressive, the only catch is still the use of 1/3" chips, but again...price must be kept down for both lens and chip. http://www.panasonic-broadcast.com/c...E_Brochure.pdf |
Cameras usually gets released for much less than the announced price so it’s better to wait until we get prices from places like B&H, etc.
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Interesting that this camera costs the same as the HPX-500.
It will be interesting to see the 1/3" full raster vs. 2/3" pixel shift in terms of image quality. I will always want the larger chips, but they are pricing them like they are equal. But I agree, Do we need another 1/3" chip camera? This camera a year ago would have made much more of a splash. |
Do we know if that $10,700 includes a lens?
There's quite a lot of good things with this camera, and full marks to Panasonic for the 3 2.2MP chips and shouldermount. I'm also pretty amazed to see true pro features such as proxy abilities to SD card, and integrated radio mic support on a camera in this price range, to say nothing of a few other features. Personally, I'd like to roll this and an EX3 into one - keep the 1/2" chips and SxS/SDHC media of the EX3, but form factor and other features of this. Either way, it looks as if 2.2MP chips are here to stay. |
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I'll guess around $9k as street price, and i'm suspecting "bundles" either from pana or dealers with two 32gb P2 cards will be about $10k. |
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Good correction. Sorry.
I did not realize the 17x lens was part of the package. But, I think for this camera to really have 'whooped up' on the Sony it would need 1/2" chips and offer the option of SD card recording like the HMC-150. Now that the M&R solution is in use, the EX-1 for $6,000 is a lot better value than the HPX-300 at $9,000 given they are both CMOS and the memory price comparisons are pretty far apart. |
Does SDHC have the through-put to record AVC-I?
I was all set to sell my original HVX and upgrade to this camera.. but the 1/3" chips have just killed it. Im keeping my hvx. Still, a lovely camera though, its a shame its going to cost a stupid amount of money down here with current exchange rates. I'd rather invest more and go 2/3". |
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I don't know but Sandisk has SDHC cards with advertised 30MBps read & writes.
The HMC-150 can record 24Mbps using class 4 cards so maybe 50Mbps intra might not be that far away? |
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