AF100 / AF101 - initial report

[Kobas]

Why do so many people comment on what the camera looks like? Isn't that the lest important issue? Or are you one of those people that spends $800 on a T2i and then $7000 on worthless overpriced matte boxes and fallow focuses that essentially do nothing but make the camera "look movie studio like"?

It looks fine just being a block with a hole for a lens. What else do you want... a spoiler and under-body neon's?

its not that i cant settle below an amazing blonde , i dont mind a decent looking brunette , but this is big fat mom !! .

lol no seriously , i know the looks doesnt matter , but for 6 $ ~ i think they could design it better but yeah it doesnt matter .

[bluesgeek]

Matte boxes and follow focuses do much more than make a camera seem bigger.

True that. They actually do make them bigger.

[agcohn]

It will be the first professional camcorder able to shoot such a frame rate at FullHD resolution...
If no line-doubling or some other interpolation technique is applied I think this new sensor has a huge work to do.
A great and unique feature, anyway.

Oh, BTW, any info about sensor's scanning mode?
I mean: does it line-skip as in HDSLRs or does it scan the full 12 Mpixel area for a later downconversion to 1920x1080?

If the sensor can't do standard 1080/60p, I'm not sure how it can do 1080/24p @ 60 fps VFR, unless it's some sort of burst mode that it can't keep up for long.

Can we confirm that it isn't just uprezzing the 720p VFR modes for 1080p?

[yabyum]

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I AGREE

man this thing is gonna be sooooooooooooooo coool!!!!

now just gotta bust my ass on projects so i have enough money to buy it

only disappointment is the 2.0x crop like the gh1. was hoping for a 5d full frame but alas! still going to be amazing

[bgundu]

can the second SD slot do redundant backups?

[BFever]

I like the shape and look of this camera. It looks like I'll be able to rig up much of my dslr rig I'm putting together with the AF100 as well. It's simple, at least there are no racing stripes.

[John Caballero]

Thanks again Barry Green!

[dmpsk8]

killer

[Emanuel]

Dude, I grew up in Las Vegas. And I >never< saw stuff there, like they have here.

Was shooting in downtown and we walked by a cafe that had a "no smoking" sign. Well, at least, that's what I thought it was: it had a picture of a cigarette with a circle and a slash through it." And I thought -- wait -- this is Europe, I thought you were >required< to smoke? So I looked closer and it said "Smoking allowed. No tobacco."

Ah, I get it...

But yeah, that was the tame stuff. Amsterdam is not a shy town.

LOL

As matter of fact, it is not. After Amsterdam only Hamburg, a second home. But I am in Rome these days. If you'll decide to fly a couple of hours and come to Mediterranean, let me know via PM. It would actually be nice to finally meet you in person beyond the forums.

E. :-)

[Jarek Zabczynski]

The AF-100 plus the KiPro Mini seems like a good combo. How would the two work in the 1080p 60p VFR modes? I'm guess not well if at all.