Barry's HVX Book?

Barry_Green said:
Well, yeah, but if you did find it, it'd probably still work... :thumbsup:
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Yep! Maybe so! But don't under estimage the power of Murphys law. It stipulates that it will fall on the only rock sticking out of a lake! Or as in the case of the people vs peanut butter toast; said P2 will be swallowed by a passing-by flying whale to be digested for a period of no less then 2 months, and no more then 5 months.

Other then that! I wonder how a P2 will fair if falling on plush grass from an altitude of 3000 feet? God forbid if it falls on someoned head. That person will have reduced long term memory! :laugh:
 
cici said:
from Barry's HVX-book:
- Three long beeps (---) mean: open parachute... please! Otherwise you're gonna be a pretty Pizza four Seasons (PAL-version: ketchup)
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1 long beep = 1sec
1 interval = 1 sec
3 long beeps with 3 intervals = 6 secs = 2.000ft = instant pizza
 
Flintstone said:
I wonder how a P2 will fair if falling on plush grass from an altitude of 3000 feet? God forbid if it falls on someoned head. That person will have reduced long term memory! :laugh:
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lol - I just imagine the man running madly around with a P2 card stuck in his head:

Some will say: "Behold! A cyborg!!"

Others: "P2 is more versatile than I thought!"

Me: "can you see any footage, silly man?"

Him: "No, but thanks God it wasn't a Firestore!"
 
The HVX is the ultimate camera for shooting skydiving. Have you guys forgotten about "jetpack mode"?

:laugh: :thumbsup: :engel017:
 
Wow! - This camera is already a "cult" even before appearing on the market! - It reminds me on the Commodore 64.... that one was cult too! The HVX might possibly pass the cult-degree of an F4.... with or without jetpack mode!
 
Hmmmm! Commodore 64! Fun times. Those were the days! All play, no work!


I want the "Ark II" truck with my Jetpack HVX!
 
All play? - I mean: I definitely played more than I programmed, but BASIC-programming and assembler and cracking were important parts for C64 too.... I still have five C64s stored... and tons of books and C64 magazines... - one cold winter I'll install them and you won't see me over ground for weeks!
 
How high up can you be in skydive mode mode before you have to bring the laptop for downloading?

Lets se

1080P 24 = 100 mbs = 16 min (2p2)
avarage fall rate = 250 kmh

Thats 66 and 2/3 km

So remember dont pull the parachutecord, or your footage will risk to not be captured from the beginning to the end. HAHO is out of the question.
 
Barry_Green said:
The HVX is the ultimate camera for shooting skydiving. Have you guys forgotten about "jetpack mode"?

:laugh: :thumbsup: :engel017:
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I haven't forgotten, Barry. I was lucky to be in on that thread!! The fact that you never mentioned jetpack mode in the DVX book really had me wondering for a while there about your expertise on that camera. Hehehehehe:evil: :grin: :evil: :grin:!!!!!

Seriously, I'm really looking forward to your HVX book.:thumbup:
 
If no other info is given, I suppose it's gonna be done with help/participation of Jan and it's gonna be automatically a little bigger than the DVX book, as there are more modes to handle (formats, recording devices, framerates, etc.) including the chapter about skydiving and jetpack mode :)
 
cici said:
Wow! - This camera is already a "cult" even before appearing on the market! - It reminds me on the Commodore 64.... that one was cult too! The HVX might possibly pass the cult-degree of an F4.... with or without jetpack mode!
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Do any of you guys or Barry remember the Commodore Amiga? I bought one in 1990 from Montgomery Grant in NY City and it was completely defective. In fact, MG was re-selling defective computers as if they were new, and of course luring people in with too-good-to-be-true low prices. Getting the return was such a hassle, I just returned the computer and never explored Amiga again. Wish I would have bought it somewhere else. Talk about a machine that was WAY before its time. Here is Wikipedia's page on Amiga.
 
Amiga? No thanks.... I once bought 2 for 10 dollars from flee-market but honestly I threw them to trash for 2 reasons:

1) too tall for its performance (you better emulated the Amiga with a PC...)
2) too complex for understanding each part of it 100%

to point 2) - the C64 in the early 80s was a computer that you could know 100%: you could easily understand each electronic part of it, so you could "tune" it towards any desired direction (btw.: remember the C64 in Police Academy III ?) and STILL you could programm it in 3 very easy languages. As soon as you switch it on, it's ready to serve - no starting up like other computers. But from the Amiga on, people started to become experts for hardware, software, sound, graphics, etc. - nobody could control the whole thing anymore. It was the big change from home-computer to personal-computer. The 64 is 100% home-computer and you can use it to control your model-train or to write music or anything just within some few minutes. YOU write the program the moment you need it. And it's so easy - it so.... BASIC! :happy:

But let's keep this nostalgy away from this thread - especially the Amiga!! (go get an emulator from internet: WinUAE is possibly the best known...)
 
On the serious side, I think Panasonic should get the HVX in Barry's hand as soon as Jan has a working model and the HVX book should ship with the camera (with Barry's fee included of course).
 
Barry,

I'm also really looking forward to your HVX book. I got your DVX book a little while after it came out, and I had already owned a 100 and 100a for a while. I learned a lot from your book. It really made a difference in my projects.
 
Mid-November was my guess. I don't know what will happen with the camera when the US receives it, but heck, I'm sure there are a lot of people clamoring for it -- and no, I'm not talking about just shooters, I'm talking about Panasonic US's internal r&d team, or the people writing the English-language version of the manual, and companies making accessories like VariZoom and Century Optics, people needing to see files from it so they can make sure their software works with it, sales staff that need to be trained on it, etc...

So it may be a while before it's put in the hands of some shooters to make some releasable footage.
 
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