V1E available in Germany?
 

Of the European coutries, some have been late to make the V1E available (probably because their local Sony branches were aware of the 25p problems). In the UK and Poland, the camera was available last December already - and the early adopters ther (like myself, or Tony, or Zsolt) had to send theirs to Prime Support for fixing.

Now, do you know if in those other countries (like Germany) the V1E is already available, and if not, when is it expected to arrive? Thx.

VIE avalaible in France till beginning of december
 

Hello, sorry my english is not very good.

I've got my V1E in France at the beginning of december 2006
It is also affected by the 25p issue, and I'm now waiting for UPS taking and send it to Prime support.
Sony never called me to give the info, my dealer is not aware, so big thanks to this forum and especially Piotr, Tony and others... ( without "dvinfo.net" my V1 would stay unfixed!)
The poor resolution in 25P is very noticiable on my unit and I hope it will get better.
Be sure i'll tell you how is the 25p after fixing
Otherwise I'm very happy with my cam, I'll shoot watersports with it, so 25p is not very important to me.

I got an email from a UK shooter:

"my V1e came back last week with the firmware update and +3 sharpness is the recommended setting for 25p now by Sony UK and it works well with knee set to low, cinegamma 1, cinecolour on and blackstretch on.
The V1 is a classic cam, a joy to use and too my eyes gives a nicer image than my Z1."

No Steve I very seriously doubt I will be in the majority as I am one of the few people to actually know what I am looking at. You don't do the job I do for the clients I work for without being able appreciate an image.

I can't understand why you seem so pleased to be backing a camera that doesn't fulfil its marketing promise. This only stores up trouble for future product development. If Sony think they can get away with the oil paint effect no what will they try and get away with next time?

If there wasn't a problem Sony wouldn't have given me a full refund. Would they? Thank you Sony I was very happy to get my cash back.

BTW the V1 might produce a better image than the Z1 but it absolutely cannot live with a properly set up XH-A1. I could put several posts up showing how superior the resolution and compression is or how the CMOS latitude is a figment of someone's imagination compared to the XH-A1.

The biggest mistake I made was not conducting the demo thoroughly in order to better set up the XH-A1 and being swayed by the amount of Sony accessories I owned. I could have saved myself 2 months of wasted time.

It is only when one uses the camera for an extended period that one can really see how superior the XH-A1 is. It exceeds my expectations daily.

Cheers

TT

I wonder if the problem shows up with HDMI direct? Or is it a DSP to tape problem. Would be interesting since you can record direct through HDMI via BlackMagic Intensity. Limited use perhaps but still an alternative.

The oil paint effect only appears on tape recorded pictures, reading tape on TV or m2t file with PPro, AL 7.1, VLC ...
No trouble when I connect the cam ( in 25P mode) to LCD TV full HD as monitor by HDMI .
I don't have Intensity card.

Thank you Steve Mullen, the E-mail you've got sounds good to me!

Odile

You are quite wrong. The oil paint effect is on HDMI, component and taped output from the camera. It is a fundamental flaw with the camera. There is no escaping it.

I am not paid by Canon nor have I received a loaner camera from them. All my views are my own and can back up everything I have ever written with clips from the V1E.

TT

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Piotr

As an answer to your question.
A new batch of V1E has arrived in Switzerland, so I got mine 2 days ago.

I had some offers from Germany, they didn’t say "out of stock", but the price in Germany is to high, even with tax refund

volki

if the v1 might produce a better image than a z1 but not live with the a1,why do lots of sites have brilliant sony clips like this fx-1 short film

http://www.thehdepot.com/demo1hi.wmv
please as you say you can show some a1 footage [wmv]will you send some for me to see,by the way i only have a humble fx-7.chris

Per similar requests from you regarding people with the oil paint effects, could your contact provide some properly shot footage in progressive and interlaced mode for comparisons? Thanks.

Tony, please drop me an email?

There are many people I receive emails from who will not post at dvinfo.

The fact that there has NEVER been a post of correctly shot V1U video with the artifact tells us there is no issue with the V1U.

One of my fields is statistics: I don't defend products -- but I will point out the statistical chance that a claim of a bug is true when so few report it. It looks like IF there is an issue -- it is a per-camera problem. Not unlikely given the number of units now in the field.

So, folks have to decide if they believe one person in the world has such good eyes he can see what others seem not to see. And, how much they can trust anyone who claims the same fault is in a camera (V1U) he has never used. And, who claims he knows "what's wrong" but won't say.

I have managed to shoot some really colorful clips of exotic birds and butterflies in Singapore yesterday. I dont even try to shoot in progressive, as I have very limited chances to view my takes on a proper monitor here.
I managed to convince an electronic store sales person to connect my V1E to a Pioneer 1080p 50" plasma.
In fact people stopped nearby to watch my video rather than looking at other TVs with the usual HD promo clips running on them. The results were amazing - unfortunately only in interlaced.
Maybe I will shoot a tape with p just for comparison, cannot risk more. The only thing I noticed, the cam is sensitive to CA in extreme contrast situations.

In interlaced I have not noticed any artifacts during the short viewing, apart from the CA I have mentioned above.

I will post clips once back home - a couple of weeks later.

Dear all,

I've started this thread without any hidden intention to revive the V1's flaw discussion. I already sort of accepted that the progressive mode is what it is; I am in a very comfortable situation of both options (Canon A1 or Sony V1) still open. Having tested the Canon really thoroughly, I'd like to give the Sony one more, final try. However, I'm not interested in testing a camera "fixed" by Prime Support; no thank you - there have been enough indications of them not treating the cameras with care and their owners (including myself) with respect. Instead, I'd like to check the performance of a brand new V1E as being produced NOW, because they're supposed to have the final version of firmware when leaving the factory. Unfortunately, my local dealer doesn't know when he will get a new batch, hence the question about availability in countries that were not the first to import the flawed series (like Germany).

If you want to know my opinion, the Canon is simply a great camera - the multitude of manual controls being a heaven for us, old guys who will never grow out of the boyish love for toys. However, there is a number of ergonomy aspects that make me still consider the V1. Frankly, the incident with the handle flap falling off (see my thread on the A1 forum) shuttered my faith in Canon's build quality, too.

Anyway, if the oil paint effect is really gone with the new V1E, I might settle with the Sony, after all. The line flicker and other artefacts that even the Prime Support admits are present (and require turning the sharpness down), I think I can live with. And Tony, I think it'd just be fair to all interested to add that you can't be sure ANYTHING was actually done with your camera during the "fix" attempt, hence the oil paint efect still present after you got it back. In any case, NOTHING was done to mine - that's what the Prime Support admitted when they called me recently. This is why I still hope the true fix that arrived only AFTER my (and probably Tony's) camera returned, has eliminated the 25p softness.

On the other hand, I'm very surprised (and even worried) by the lack of input from the "satisfied" V1 users on this forum (as well as all the others), as opposed to lots of positive and constructive response from those using the Canon. Steve, can you explain this?

Anyway, I hope next week I'll be able to give the V1 one more, final try - and who knows, perhaps I'll be changing details of my signature here...