True North
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For the shooting I do with Camcorder style cameras, zoom is essential. While a 20X's zoom would be nice it's not essential for most of the things I do with Camcorders. To me the biggest hindrance that I perceive with the DVX200 is with the aperture range at the long end of the focal range.
It seems as if at this point in time we have reached a bit of a road block for Prosumer 4K Camcorders with decent zoom capabilities.
My initial hope for the DVX200 was that with it's larger sensor it would have solved the issues that the current 4K 60P prosumer camcorder units have with working in low light situations. But alas the larger sensor brings it's own challenges as the physics of building a lens with much wider apertures on a M4/3 sensor, I am guessing, would have driven the price up by about another $3000-$4000 dollars. With that being said, I think it might be worth it for Panasonic to consider building a camera with the same body and functionality, but with a larger aperture lens.
The cost of good fast glass is not going to go down any time soon so I believe the only real hope for fixing these low light challenges is with smaller sensor technology so that raising ISO's or DB's doesn't really become an issue in terms of creating too much noise and or losing image detail. Of course that sort of technology won't likely make it's way to the prosumer market in the very near future (1 year) but as sensor technology improves so will the costs and then prosumer versions can become a reality.
Until then it would seem that we are kind of stuck in no mans land when it comes to decent low light 4K camcorder performers with good zoom lens performance in the prosumer price range.
It seems as if at this point in time we have reached a bit of a road block for Prosumer 4K Camcorders with decent zoom capabilities.
My initial hope for the DVX200 was that with it's larger sensor it would have solved the issues that the current 4K 60P prosumer camcorder units have with working in low light situations. But alas the larger sensor brings it's own challenges as the physics of building a lens with much wider apertures on a M4/3 sensor, I am guessing, would have driven the price up by about another $3000-$4000 dollars. With that being said, I think it might be worth it for Panasonic to consider building a camera with the same body and functionality, but with a larger aperture lens.
The cost of good fast glass is not going to go down any time soon so I believe the only real hope for fixing these low light challenges is with smaller sensor technology so that raising ISO's or DB's doesn't really become an issue in terms of creating too much noise and or losing image detail. Of course that sort of technology won't likely make it's way to the prosumer market in the very near future (1 year) but as sensor technology improves so will the costs and then prosumer versions can become a reality.
Until then it would seem that we are kind of stuck in no mans land when it comes to decent low light 4K camcorder performers with good zoom lens performance in the prosumer price range.
