HMC40 or HMC41E for PAL UK?

[loothi]

.. Hello. I'm concerned as a UK buyer, that the HMC41E is looking like over 2k in UKP whereas in the US it's 2k in USD. We're really losing out. :(

Being as most of my work is in web, wouldn't it be fine for me to get a US one, and say shoot in 24p anyway?

Any thoughts?

Cheers
~loothi

[studio1972]

As lolg as you don't need to show any footage on UK TVs you should be fine.

[Barry_Green]

And you factor in any 50hz/60hz lighting issues, meaning that you're going to want to carefully watch your shutter speed to avoid the scrolling bands that can affect a CMOS camcorder under the other country's lighting.

Plus you won't have any warranty coverage.

[pablopmr]

Why so much difference in price for the same camera ? tv standards ?

US HMC40 $1800-$1900 + tax = £1150 +tax

UK HMC41 £1750 + tax = $ 2829 + tax

I have owned other cameras from panasonic eg dvx100 etc, but this amount of difference puts me off purchasing Panasonic.


Panasonic UK should adjust pricing.:angry:

[Robert M Wright]

As lolg as you don't need to show any footage on UK TVs you should be fine.

Actually, that's not really a huge problem. Shooting 24p, you would simply approach it much like converting movies (film) for PAL broadcast - simply speed up the framerate to 25fps (4% faster) and adjust the pitch of the audio accordingly (pretty easy to do really).

[Robert M Wright]

The other way to do it, is to encode interlaced (which would happen anyway for broadcast at 1080i50) simply duplicating a single field every 12th frame pulldown style (no need for adjusting audio pitch).