AG-HPX500 Info Available On Panasonic USA Site

Weird how the 2000 which is double the price doesn't have the 8 Cinegamma settings. Must be a reason they're pushing this unit over the others...would hate to have a Varicam for $45,000. Yes it doesn't have pixel-shift but the 2000 should offer the same features as Varicam. Except the 2000 doesn't have variable frame rate.

oops -I found this from Jan today in another thread:

The HPX500 has 620,000 pixel CCDs vs. 1.1 million pixel CCDs. The HPX2000 has an optional card that will allow it to go to the AVC-Intra codec this fall, the HPX500 cannot. The HPX2000 has 5 P2 Slots the HPX500 has 4. But the HPX500 can do variable frame rate recording and the HPX2000 cannot and will not.

On the lens question, I do recommed one of the Chroma Aberration Correction lenses if you cannot afford an expensive HD lens. The @$10,000 price race is at the level where the CAC is required to rid itself of the CA, because at that price and lower the money cannot be spent to resolve the registration errors that are inherent in the lens design. The more expensive the lens the more money can be spent on this and thus the less apprent the CA is on the $20,000.

So we did put some very nice packages out with the lens and P2 cards included, and I think they make really nice packages.
 
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