just learned today VIs now being dispached to customers first date was
4 th december then put back to 13th december but arrived today in uk
8/12/06 so hopefully not to long for some stuff.
There's some discussion going on in DVinfo.net about the image quality. It seems that the progressive frame grabs are as bad as the pre-production models reviewed by Simon Windyham.
The reported problems have specifically been with the V1's progressive modes. The 25p of the V1E has been called "unusable" due to some sort of blurring effect. That is, the camera appears to have a production flaw.
This problem was already found in a pre-production version of the V1E. Everyone thought it would be solved with the production models, but a new owner is reporting the same problem.
Maybe this is just a rare issue, but it's not encouraging. The main reason to get this camera over the FX7 is its 24p mode! If that isn't reliable, well...:violin:
We should start seeing V1E footage this week. I'm going to give it a fair shake before drawing any conclusions.