Jan,

Can you say if the new camera will use the same kind of zoom controller as the dvx100?

Any chance the new camera has a remote Focus port? This would be a life saver!!!!!

Jan really isn't in any position to comment on the feature set of the HVX beyond what she has already done. Please don't pester her with questions she's not allowed to answer yet. Instead, let's all speculate! Speculation is just as definitive as not getting an official answer, and much more fun. My own speculation is that it *will* have the Aux jack required for a VariZoom-style remote lens controller. As for focus, that depends. If the camera has auto-focus, then it has a motor, which could be remotely controlled. If it's manual focus only, then there's no focus motor, meaning any remote focus control will have to be a mechanical link to the ring, like a follow-focus mechanism.

Well Im hoping if the camera isn't finished yet and does not have a remote Focus port... That we should petition for that feature!

Please give us the Remote Focus Port

Well, I'm pretty sure the feature set has been locked in.

To recap: if the lens has autofocus, that means there's a motor that might be controlled remotely.

If the lens is manual focus only, then there is no focus motor, and remote control will be a mechanical linkage to the focus ring.

Hope that's clear,

<<<-- Originally posted by Laurence Maher : Hey Jan,

So everyone was figuring for a while the Panny will have a fixed lens. But now rumors of interchangeables are flying. Will lens be fixed or interchangeable please?

Hoping so, Hoping so ..... -->>>

Which rumours of an interchangeable lens?! The "under the covers" picture tha's out doesn't look like your standard interchangeable lense to me and I doubt they'd do that. In fact, don't you dare do that Panasonic, I would have a heart attack and empty my bank account in one fell swoop.

Aaron

No Jan, NOOOOOOOOOO

The pain . . .

THE PAINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!

Thanks for response, though.

Aaron,

Ya, I know, just heard a bunch of rumors, that's all. Had to ask.

Chris,

Here's a quote from you . . .

"Speculation is just as definitive as not getting an official answer" . . .

LOL . . .

Strange statement. Never bothered looking at it that way, just struck me as funny, kind of like, "A platapus is just as definitive as a pink platipus." See, neither a platipus, NOR a pink platipus gives one answers to the "meaning of life" question. But it's kind of funny to say anyway.

:)