Camera broke

nantnee

nantnee

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My canon a1 broke sunday. Luckily i had a service plan that gave me full credit back. Now the question is, what do I get now with the $3700 i have??

Should I get the A1 again seeing hows its only 3000. Or the HMC-150??

What should I do?
 
Wow who did you have the warranty with? Anyhow if it were me I would for sure go tape less!

Maybe the HMC or if you got the money a P2 camera.

BH has a used HVX 200a for 3,7500. They say never opened? Only catch no P2 card.
 
Best buy. i guess if they dont have it stock then you get store credit. I havent really read up on the HMC-150. Whats it compared to?

And the HVX 200 for 3700 is pretty tempting. i'll have to look more into that.
 
Wow you got to use an A1 for a while then got your money back higher than the current price! You made a return on that investment I'd say! If you don't already have a 35mm adapter I'd say go for the a1 again and put the 700 toward an adapter. If you do I'd say go for the 150.
 
i rejected the idea of buying such a thing at a place like best buy (pay damn near msrp)...but now i wish i was in your situation....Orchid has a great point...A1+35mm...on your way.
 
That was another consideration. I figure the extra 700 is almost half off of a sgblade.

By broke I mean the lens was not communicating with the viewfinder or lcd. I could do playback but couldnt see what i was shooting. One way or another, im still coming out ahead.
 
I was looking a the 170, but its a little out of my price range. I would have liked to have been able to use the P2 cards.

Is avchd worse/better than hdv in terms of compression?
 
AVCHD uses MPEG-4 AVC/H.264. HDV uses mpeg-2. AVCHD is significantly less lossy. Plus with AVCHD you get the full 1920 width instead of 1440 PAR 1.33. I hate dealing with PAR. I think despite all that its still the same data rate of 24 mb/s. Prolly the biggest bonus is no tapes!!! AVCHD obliterates HDV in every way IMO.
 
If I were to purchase a new camera, whether the 150 or A1, from where should I buy it? I would want something similiar to the Best Buy service plan that covers accidently damage and defects. So far BH seems to be the victor.
 
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