When is the Next Generation HVX200 expected on the market?

I do a lot of on the go, street stuff and other than framing- the LCD is useless. I've suffered many out of focus shots.
I just bought a marshall- but that doesn't help in run and gun.

I hope Panasonic will improve the low light performance as well.
If I know I'll be shooting indoors with low or available light- I go with the 100b.
Realistically, you just can't light for a ballroom event.
So it's far less worries and I still love the 24p image off the 100b.

And yes- get rid of the tape deck and stream line the camera camera body.
Also- "a last clip delete button" on the camera body.
And lastly, it would be nice to be able to change frame rates without going into the menu. Maybe a dial similar to an old 16mm Bolex?
 
AshG said:
if they want to blow the @ss off the tapeless workflow, they could put a blueray drive instead of a miniDV drive and leave the two P2 cards. By doing that, I think they would effectively KILL Sony and force Canon to provide a non-HDV HD option on the XLH2...
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Except that they wouldn't kill Sony, because Blu-Ray is a Sony product. ;) Just something ironic I noticed in your post.
 
Well, it would be interesting. I wonder if Sony would even allow them to license the tech.


ash =o)
 
Bokes said:
I do a lot of on the go, street stuff and other than framing- the LCD is useless. I've suffered many out of focus shots.
I just bought a marshall- but that doesn't help in run and gun.

I hope Panasonic will improve the low light performance as well.
If I know I'll be shooting indoors with low or available light- I go with the 100b.
Realistically, you just can't light for a ballroom event.
So it's far less worries and I still love the 24p image off the 100b.

And yes- get rid of the tape deck and stream line the camera camera body.
Also- "a last clip delete button" on the camera body.
And lastly, it would be nice to be able to change frame rates without going into the menu. Maybe a dial similar to an old 16mm Bolex?
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Bokes,

I agree with all your points, but the last one concerning frame rates is pretty easy to fix. I created a combination of User File and Scene File setting that I call Varicam. So my User File 1 sets the camera up for 720pn/24 and my Scene File #1, that I labled Varicam, has every setting the same except for frame rate.

Scene File Dial Setting:
1 = 18fps
2 = 22fps
3 = 24fps
4 = 32fps
5 = 48fps
6 = 60fps

Since all of my other color settings are the same I can easily pick frame rates quickly. The only thing I have to change is the exposure between settings. I use it often and have shown it to a couple of Varicam operators and they thought it was slick.

Since my settings are saved to my SD card, I can easily return the camera to its default settings for rental or other purposes and then load my stuff right back up.

Give it a shot.

Rob
 
Sony will announce the FX7E at the IBC 2006 next week (at least a first model) and it will be on the market next year so I think Panasonic has to come with the HVX200a next year as well if they want to keep up with Sony and Canon (the latter already announced 2 new models).
 
ovjamaica said:
Except that they wouldn't kill Sony, because Blu-Ray is a Sony product. ;) Just something ironic I noticed in your post.
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Blu-Ray isn't a Sony product, Matsushita is part of that coalition.

XDCAM is a proprietary version of blu-ray that is Sony-only.

The original announcement for AVC-HD was apparently intended to be based on mini-blu-ray discs, but blu-ray has been so slow in getting out that they launched it with regular red-laser mini-DVDs. But the plan is apparently to go to mini-blu-ray when it's practical, and both manufacturers will be offering it that way.
 
Barry_Green said:
The original announcement for AVC-HD was apparently intended to be based on mini-blu-ray discs, but blu-ray has been so slow in getting out that they launched it with regular red-laser mini-DVDs. But the plan is apparently to go to mini-blu-ray when it's practical, and both manufacturers will be offering it that way.
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Hmmm. Sacriligeous to both Sony and Panasonic, but presumably AVC-HD on a red laser disc would also be playable on a HD-DVD machine (unlike Blu-Ray)?

It also makes me wonder whether the mini-blu-ray drives will have the ability to record to red laser discs as well?
 
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