Duct Tape Films
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After seeing the beast in person, reading the manual cover to cover, noticing my incoming hire phone calls dropping off, and let's be honest - gear envy, I'm going to be upgrading to the XHA1 in the not too distant future. I'm wondering about a few things though, after using the DVX for years, and the XL1 for years prior, I always used a cheap DV cam (Optura Pi) to bring in my footage. I'm gathering that the cheapest similar option using HDV is about $1000, which raises a question for me - perhaps would that be better money spent on a Firestore for the A1, thus eliminating the need for a deck to bring in footage, but still providing the security that I felt was lacking, or simply too costly, vs. the HVX, meaning having two IDENTICAL copies, whereas all the HVX could offer was either a DV backup, or a more momentary backup (meaning you'd have to copy over the card). Shooting real time docs, this always gave me a weary feeling, and is what has kept me from the HVX. Would not getting a Firestore perhaps be the best way to deal with this bringing it into the system issue, and using the indentical tape backup as say, a backup?
