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February 21st, 2008, 11:51 PM | #46 |
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Brochure available
The brochure for the AG-HMC70 is now available on the Panasonic website.
http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp...Model=AG-HMC70 Ken |
February 22nd, 2008, 11:10 AM | #47 | |
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Panasonic put out a press release about their new 32GB SDHC (class 6) card coming out in April.
Here's the part I'm not so happy about: Quote:
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16GB Class 6 for $75 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820211245 16GB SDHC for $60, will be $30 in 3 months. Use these cards all the time.
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I don't know that I'd call A-Data or Patriot "off brand." They've both been making reliable RAM memory for computers for awhile.
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February 23rd, 2008, 11:10 AM | #51 |
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Would panasonic offer a camera with higher resolution chips than the hvx, but at a lower price?
On the other hand, why would they embrace their past history of pixel shifting low res chips, when all of it's competitors have shied away from the technology? This is quite the conundrum in my mind. |
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Well, I don't care about the bitrates or what it records on. All I care about is how the footage looks. If it can't beat my little HV20, then I can always buy an HF10 or HF100 if I want a tapeless HD camera.
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February 23rd, 2008, 03:42 PM | #53 |
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I think they will if they're releasing a new HXV at NAB. It's bound to be coming soon, the HVX has been around for a while now.
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February 23rd, 2008, 03:45 PM | #54 |
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But if you want manual controls in the style we've become accustomed, then you'll need something styled more like the HMC150.
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February 23rd, 2008, 06:56 PM | #55 |
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Manual control is available in the HF10 / 100 via the same work-around used for the HV20, but you're quite right in that there are some applications which call for a camcorder with a much larger form factor, such as the HMC70 and 150.
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For me the ideal alternative to the HVX200 would be something which doesn't rely on P2 cards, costs under $5000 and uses AVC-intra at a bit rate up to 50 Mbps. This camera isn't quite there yet but getting closer... |
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February 24th, 2008, 09:05 AM | #58 |
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They're not going to be roughly the same price.
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First of all, I think Panasonic's decision to offer an enhanced mode on the HMC150 was to counter what the competitions might be coming out with. I think its chips will be newly designed and not of the HVX's flavor. Successful companies move forward with technology, not backwards. I don't think the enhanced mode will be the AVCHD max of 24mb/s; I do think it will be 17mb/s or maybe a bit higher, 19mb/s seems to be what I'm thinking. According to the release, the lens appears to be a fairly wide angle one, so I don't anticipate it being more than a 12 or 13X lens. It does appear to be a very nice camera that has definitely caught my attention and one that I might consider buying.
On the other hand, the HMC70 seems like a disappointment. Why didn't Panasonic have an enhanced 17mb/s mode on this camcorder? Gosh, that higher mode is now being used on consumer models. |
February 24th, 2008, 11:20 PM | #60 |
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So why not just give the consumer the option to use the full 24mb/s? It never has made sense to me why they don't leave it up to the end user how they want to set their data rate. If the spec calls for a max of 24mb/s, why limit us to 13 or 17?
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