EVA1: Anyone Received Notice Regarding Delivery of your EVA1?

ntouched

ntouched

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I'm going to pull the trigger on the C200 or EVA1 within the next few days. Leaning towards the Canon C200, but still waiting to hear from a few additional forum members on the EVA1 (just a few more reviews from forum members)!!!

Anyone received notice on delivery?
 
I just got shipment notification from B&H for my EVA1. Should have it Friday (I'm in California). I preordered 1 hour after announcement.
 
I got mine on Monday, with 1.05 firmware already on it. I have one big problem so far. I am using Lexar SDXC 1000x 150mb/s U2 cards (2 256gb and 2 128gb) and after recording a few clips, the card becomes corrupted, and I lose all footage on the card. Putting the corrupted SD card in a computer gives me the "you must format before using" error. So as of now I don't have confidence using it on a job. I am guessing I should not be trying all sorts of different frame rates on the same card, maybe. The 240 fps looks great. I recorded some outdoor 4k 60P stuff today but the card became corrupted before I could see it. I created a "Cheat sheet" for myself to remember how to do specific things with it, like changing the native ISO from 800 to 2500. It's a few steps. So far I have not figured out how to set a white balance with a card.
 
Friday 11/10 update: Today I shot a bunch of short clips, just off the tv screen to try to replicate the card crashing I've been having. I decided not to change resolution modes in case my crashing was due to switching to 4k, so I just used basic 1080-30P at 50mb/sec. I also recorded to 2 cards simultaneously. I also recorded via SDI to my Convergent Design Apollo recorder. After successfully recording several clips, I got a beeping sound and error message while recording. I shut the camera down and rebooted. The footage on the Apollo is fine, but I lost 2 of the clips, plus the 3rd clip that was being recorded when I got the error message. So I need some serious help from Panasonic at this point. I think I could use it on a job as long as I have the Apollo running. Hopefully not everyone's EVA1 has the same problems.
 
You should try different cards (if you can) even if the ones you're using are high-quality. Sometimes cameras are picky, especially new ones in which all the kinks aren't worked out yet.

Nevertheless, it shouldn't be happening.
 
I always used to use Lexar cards until I bought a SD 664 and then a C300. I had issues with Lexar cards in the 664 and I believe (at least at the time), there were no Lexar cards on the recommended list from Canon. At that point, I switched over to San Disk cards. And this was after years of using Lexar cards with no issues shooting stills on 5D series cams and a NanoFlash on my VariCam.
 
That's the downside to a cheap media choice for a camera. There are so many cards that are bad or not good enough so these things might be an issue.

Then again I hardly ever seen Sandisk Extreme cards causing any problems.
 
The issue is the card, not the camera. Both the brochure and the manual note that for currently available recording modes the minimum card requirements are SDXC Video Speed Class V30, UHS Speed Class 3 or faster. That card does not meet the qualification.

When additional recording modes are added in early 2018, those modes will require Video Speed CLass of V60 or better. As Panasonic does not make V60 cards, we instead recommend our V90 class cards. We have two SDXC cards (64G and 128G) as well as a new MicroP2 card in 64G that are all V90 rated.
 
Mitch Gross said:
The issue is the card, not the camera. Both the brochure and the manual note that for currently available recording modes the minimum card requirements are SDXC Video Speed Class V30, UHS Speed Class 3 or faster. That card does not meet the qualification.

When additional recording modes are added in early 2018, those modes will require Video Speed CLass of V60 or better. As Panasonic does not make V60 cards, we instead recommend our V90 class cards. We have two SDXC cards (64G and 128G) as well as a new MicroP2 card in 64G that are all V90 rated.
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I feel like a broken record because I'm always saying, "Use cards from the manufacturers recommended/approved list". Or lacking specific card(brand & spec) recommendations, they meet recommended specs. So many "problems" could be avoided in the first place if people would do that one simple thing. One would presume that those buying brand new cameras would at least read the manual or other material to know what type of media they need to work properly in their new gear.
 
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