DVXuser.com exclusive hands on with the HVX200

All 16:9 cameras offer a 4:3 recording mode as well, for standard-def (all HD is 16:9). You could choose to record in 4:3 if you wanted, in standard-def.

I think your dream is a little premature. Right now 95% of American households, and 100% of European households, have no HDTV sets at all. 16:9 is much more common, and becoming more common every day, but all over-the-air broadcasts in America are still done in 4:3 (excepting the few HDTV broadcasts, of course).

We're going to have a square-peg-round-hole situation for many years to come!
 
Pending footage. I am STANDING IN LINE for this camera. As long as Panasonic deliver the goods with a really good high def image, then this is my gift to myself. I am more concerned with doing transfers to film, even though most of my work was distributed on DVDs. The majority filmmakers I deal with want to do high def shorts, then transfer to 35mm or at least stream from a WM9 codec. Considering the cost of the VariCam and the CineAlta, the VariAlta (hey how about the AltaVari?) will do just fine with me. HVX lives baby!!!!
 
P.S. I will keep my DVX until I see the footage. If the camera delivers, there will be a DVX for sale sign on my front door. Peace!
 
The camera looks great! I started making films with a K-mart GAF Super 8 camera and a Radio Shack cassette recorder a long time ago and the HVX-200 is a dream come true...
Like many, I have a question about archiving. I was thinking of setting up a DLT tape archive system for my move to HD with this camera system. I don't know that much about DLT, but it seems to offer enough storage capacity to make economic sense. I mean, the images and sounds are just data right? It seems to me that the optical disk systems discussed are still a little short on storage capacity and it would, in my opion, take much more effort to archive the data in such small chunks. Can anyone offer some advice about DLT systems (or other large capacity data storage systems)?


Thanks

and I know I need to get out more and stop dreaming about cameras!
 
Thanks BARRY and JARRED for this wonderful article giving me(who lives in the other side of the world) such a close view and info about this wonderful product.
 
Barry_Green said:
All 16:9 cameras offer a 4:3 recording mode as well, for standard-def (all HD is 16:9). You could choose to record in 4:3 if you wanted, in standard-def.
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Do we know how this is handled on the HVX yet? I remember being shocked when the XL2 came out that they basically took a huge 4:3 CCD, rendered 20% of it unusable (and in essence letterboxed it to acheive a "native" 16:9 chip) and then letterboxed it *again* to achieve the "4:3 mode" image, giving it worse 4:3 resolution than the DVX actually records. Any information as to how the HVX is going to handle 4:3/SD imaging?
 
There is some info regarding 4 channel audio but I only see the 2 XLR connectors similar to the DVX100. How do you input 4 discreet channels of audio into the camera?
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Barry, do you know if Panasonic has any plans to get a Histogram display on this Hot-Rod of a camera, you know, like the pro digital cameras have? :huh:

Having a live constantly running Histogram is an excellent means of seeing where your exposure is, by noting the distribution of the pixel values, like IRE's, but more friendly. Boy that would be the best feature. It negates Zebras completely, and could be a mere 3/4" across by 3/8" tall in the bottom right hand side of the LCD (In the empty 16:9 area).:thumbsup:
 
Now that would absolutely rock. I'd love to have both actually. A histogram and zebras in combo would be sweet.
 
Can we throw in a waveform/vectorscope while we're at it?
:)

Seriously, a live histogram would be amazing, that would be something that would completely sell me on this camera (as if I wasn't sold already)....But, I doubt we'll see anything like that. I mean, does the Varicam have a live histogram?

(i can hear you guys responding already, "but the varicam doesn't do 1080/24P either Luis"
 
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