ROLLL CALLL: who has a A1? and where

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phally

Well-known member
Hey Guys this is just a roll call of all the A1 owners. I am just intrested to see where and who has the camera.

I'll start first

Name: Phally
Location: Philadelphia
Purpose of Purchase: GRAD WORK BABY - various doc.

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Just ordered mine today....

Jay
Central New Jersey
Purpose? Did I need one?



lol, j/k..... Investing in my filmmaking future homie!
 
Keegan Gibbs

Malibu/Los Angeles, California

Couldn't live without it/Industrial-Commercial Videos/Student Films/Music videos
 
Expecting one this week.

Name: Drew
Location: Austin TX
Purpose: make my own short films, rent it out to help pay for it, maybe make music video or assist in a wedding shoot for $.




BTW my parents bought this for me, and any money I haven't paid them back with by the time I am 16 (10 months) comes out of my car. So my car might be worth $1000 but I'm not complaining.

Anybody have any suggestions on how I could advertise renting my camera out? I also need some sort of contract that says if they break anything they pay for repairs.
 
Got mine last saturday

Devan Woodruff
Sandy Utah
Filming Snowboard Vids
Amazing cam especially if you know what you're doing with manual controls :D
 
Got mine today at EVS. Excellent camera but does have a steep learning curve but just as much as when I learned the DVX.
 
coffee said:
Just ordered mine today....

Jay
Central New Jersey
Purpose? Did I need one?



lol, j/k..... Investing in my filmmaking future homie!
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good to have you aboard Jay.

Name: Noel Evans
Location: Tokyo Japan
Purpose: Porn - Picking up a second this coming weekend.
 
ncje said:
good to have you aboard Jay.

Name: Noel Evans
Location: Tokyo Japan
Purpose: Porn - Picking up a second this coming weekend.
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Hey thanks Noel, I'm happy to be aboard... :dankk2:


Nice purpose dude... lol
 
Name: Nick James, that's right. My name is Nick James, BIOTCH!!
Location: Louisburg (40 min. drive south of KC), Kansas
Purpose: knock the garter belts off my brides with these cams, get some cool events....like the half time show at the Chiefs game, and warm up my filmmaking abilities until the motherload camera comes in....RED :)
 
Clint Omelaniec
Langley / British Columbia / CANADA
Documentary (Ghana, Africa in June!) Event, Studio / for Northview Community Church
 
Brent Graham
San Antonio, Texas
Commercial Marketing Videos/Weddings/Indie Films/Anti-Commercials
 
Name: Larry Huntington
Location: Grass Valley, CA
Purpose: Events, Short Films, Nature, Underwater

Sold 2 XL2's and lenses for this one cam. I have had it for almost 5 weeks now and it's like starting video all over again : )
 
Update: Got the camera 2 and a half weeks ago... don't know why I didn't update this. Haven't had the time with all of my studying for midterm tests.

I want to upload some of my footage but I don't have any web space. If anybody will host it for me, I have some 720p footage that I think really shows off the A1's colors.

Some comments:
-The image stabilizer makes for some pretty good handheld footage, unless you've zoomed in all the way.
- 20x zoom is awesome.
-Only limitation I've encountered is the lack of rack-focus capabilities. I'm sorry but the 1-way rack focusing just isn't enough.
-I need a UV filter and some lense cleaner. My friends (one in particular. no more close-ups for him) are always spitting on the lense.
-HD takes up a lot of harddrive space. Good thing I have 2 new external harddrives
-The eye-cup isn't very good, like it has been said before. I never use it
-Learning curve isn't near as hard as some people have said, and this is my first pro/prosumer camcorder. Only thing I'm having trouble with is the direction of the rings. I instinctually turn all of the manual rings the wrong direction for a split second, but I find it can look slightly 'cool' in post if not overdone. The reason I don't change the direction of the rings is because I don't want to get used to that, and then have trouble using somebody elses' camera.

Image quality and colors are superb.

Somebody get back to me if they want to host my vid. edit: forgot to mention its only 45 seconds long, 84 meg.
 
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