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When will the next big audiovisual fair/expo happen? I'd like to know more or less when should I be crossing my fingers for a new panasonic hd camera.
 
yes, when will the next show that Sony might release a US version of this camera?

Could Panasonic pull something out of their hat?
 
Don't hold your breath. News can come any time.

Though IBC and NAB at the "big" shows, there are tradeshows all the time all over the place.

Cinex next week in Germany, Broadcast Asia is coming up I think, there's Cinegear in the middle of the summer in LA, There's DVexpo East .. and West. Canon has their own shindig in NY I think, etc... there are just too many shows to wait for the next one. And product announcements are even less predictable.

- Mikko
 
There are indeed many shows. Panasonic and Canon actually showed their HVX & XLH1 at ResFest, which isn't really a trade show at all, it's a traveling film festival.

Panasonic's first hands-on for the DVX, and JVC's first hands-on for a working HD100, was at the WEVA expo in August in Las Vegas.

The HVX's big rollout, and the XLH1's big rollout, were at DV Expo in Los Angeles in November/December.

But the companies don't always wait for shows to announce; the JVC HD100 was announced in press releases in February, no show anywhere nearby; they showed the first working prototypes in April at NAB.

And the XHA1 and XHG1 were announced unrelated to a show, n'est-ce pas? So even though this IBC was the first chance to get hands on a working prototype, they'd already been announced. And Sony announced their little AVC-HD consumer cameras in press releases, unrelated to any trade show.

So news can come at any time, although shows are a place where you can get first footage and first user impressions.
 
I've seen some other footage from the camera and it looks stunning. What I saw makes this camera WORTH buying. It's stunning and I recognized how this camera will benefit me, and many others.

heath
 
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Better as in? Latitude, detail, color rendition? what aspect? The V1 has lower resolution than the FX1 so I do find that suprising (but in a good way!)
 
When I tried this camera at IBC-Amsterdam I zoomed in 100% at the (horizontal) blinds and changed the mode to 25 progressive.
Horizontal contrasts are very difficult for camera's.
Unfortunately this created a LOT of moire patterns.
I suspect it's not a true 25 fps camera.
Look very careful at the specs, tests and try before you buy.

With CMOS you would expect more noise but the picture looked quite clean.
Don't know if this is filtered.
 
Fugitive said:
Better as in? Latitude, detail, color rendition? what aspect? The V1 has lower resolution than the FX1 so I do find that suprising (but in a good way!)
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What do you mean? I am at lost. FX1 and V1 both include 960x1080 sensors plus V1 has progressive scan. In 1080i they will go hand to hand. In progressive, well... do I have to say that?
 
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What do you mean? I am at lost. FX1 and V1 both include 960x1080 sensors plus V1 has progressive scan. In 1080i they will go hand to hand. In progressive, well... do I have to say that?
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I don't see how the V1 has less resolution than the FX1, and like Bogdan says, same sensor size.

heath
 
That was my mistake actually, based on a misunderstanding of interlaced mode of the FX1.

But the V1 has a smaller chip (1/4 inch) so they may not be absolutely the same in interlaced. Lets see...
 
Heath -

To be perfectly technically accurate I have to make one correction to what you wrote. Sensors resolution is the same, size is different :)

Of course, efffective resolution in 1080i may be slightly different. It depends on so many factors that listing them could earn me PhD ;-)
 
Yes, I already mentioned that Sensor size is indeed different. 1/4 inch compared to 1/3. Must have been a typo or somthing.
 
We'll see what happens when the camera comes out. A video engineer isn't the person to make judgments on quality with a good DP. Maybe 1/4 inch CMOS are like 1/3 inch CCD.

heath
 
I wasnt making a judgement on Quality, rather, on DOF. I think its pretty obvious 1/4 CMOS would have a deeper focus than 1/3 CCD. Unless I am missing something.
 
Fugitive said:
I wasnt making a judgement on Quality, rather, on DOF. I think its pretty obvious 1/4 CMOS would have a deeper focus than 1/3 CCD. Unless I am missing something.
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Sorry if you thought I meant you about the video engineer comment, but I get frustrated when people look at things on paper vs. using it. If you look at the sensor size of the HVX (960x540) on paper, you'd flip. But when you use it, it's great, just like the Z1, HD100, etc.

heath
 
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