I bought mine in Kingston.

Welcome Frank!
I'm in Barrie. I travel fairly extensively and maybe can help you find Canadian sources.

Thanks Brian if you can find a standard body kit with Manual Servo 16X lense for under $6000 let me know.

Frank
When I was shopping areound and still undecided I got my best price on an XL1S at. Edcom have branches all over Ontario and prices seem to vary with just how hungry the salesman is when you call.

Edcom Multimedia Products Inc.
350 Shirley Ave. Units 9 & 10
Kitchener, Ontario N2B 2E1
Telephone : (519)578-2260

I'm very surprised you got a good deal at Edcom. The Edcom her ein London deals primarily in Panasonic, I don't know what it's like elsewhere.

I think Edcom may deal with Vinten...

newbe From canada
 

Hello all

First off i would like to say that this is the biggest forum Ive seen related to this great info I am very new too. I can really learn alot here.

Im an artist from ontario canada, and have been wanting to do some short films for awhile now, I do some props, costumes and FX and have always loved film and the process from camera to editing all that fun stuff! some of my work that can be seen here:

http://www.kre8tivearts.com/

I have just purchased a sony DCR VX2000 e I was told that the quality is better with PAL but dident realize that my NTSC monitors wouldent work and that there is a trasfering process also involed that Im tring to find out about more everyday If I should sell it and get a NTSC model.

Another thing is my name is Pete Mander I wasent looking I quess when I typed it, Hopfully this can be changed?

anyway hope to meet a few of you soon, and talk later.

-Pete

Welcome Pete! Where from Ontario? Kenoro? Ottawa? Niagra Falls? :-))

I used to live just outside of Dinorvic (probably not spelled right---it was a long time ago).

Hey Pete!

I used to live in the Niagara region before I wised up and moved to Vancouver. :)

Thanks!

Hmmmmm Vancouver?.....very odd you mention this...I have the vancouver sun and a few realstate adds saved in my favs for house searching..just need to get the wife more interested...she says it rains to much there..LOL

never been there myself. but I do have many reasons to get out of this small little gargen city.

-Pete

It does rain alot.

On the other hand, I remember one sunny day this Febuary, I was washing my car in shorts and a t-shirt and got a phone call from my sister in Ottawa where it was -20.

And don't forget our most lovely, "Wreck Beach."

I'm just outside of Ottawa - but I'm originally from the North of England, so I'm well aware of both PAL and NTSC, and have even gone to the bother of writing software to convert between them.

PAL is only really of use in Canada if you intend your video to end up on film - otherwise those extra 100 lines of resolution are more hassle than they're worth. I've had to get multi-standards gear for the most part so that I can keep working on my UK projects, and be able to test things like standards converters. But I decided to get an NTSC camera because of the compatability over here, and that I can experiment getting 24p rather than 25p, which altogether a greater challenge - but one I managed to crack! But my deck is the DSR-25, which is PAL and NTSC and very useful!

Graeme

I can think of 2 other reasons for using PAL in Canucksville.

You're producing for the Beeb?

Graeme

the what? lost me here...LOL