HVX200 For ENG Work?

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JayMitchell

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I am interested in knowing, if anyone is using the HVX200 for ENG work. Specifically, I would like to know how the camera handles low light, outdoor shooting of nightime crime, crash and fire scenes.

Also, how is the camera when working around emergency vehicle lights, rotators, strobes and flashers.

Thanks,

Jay
 
I need it for that kind of work too. I get mine next week, so I can test it. Begin with a documentary about the police here. But I care most of dvcpro50.
 
jamestmather said:
sounds like there is a noise issue at low light - I'm moving onto the canon
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As has been discussed here a few times, the Canon also has a comperable amount of noise... in fact all 1/3in CCD cameras have visible noise, with the Sony Z1s/FX1s being the quietest.
 
Then again you would expect that the HVX is less noisier than the Sony since the pixel size of the HVX is larger than of the Z1/FX1. There is still something strange going on with the HVX, it does not add up !!!!!! I am curious how the PAL version will perform.


Alex Leith said:
As has been discussed here a few times, the Canon also has a comperable amount of noise... in fact all 1/3in CCD cameras have visible noise, with the Sony Z1s/FX1s being the quietest.
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You know, if you have a networked storage news-cutter kind of environment at your station/facility, then ENG becomes the killer app for this camera. People don't cut tape anymore, so why shoot on it?
 
Cees Mutsaers said:
Then again you would expect that the HVX is less noisier than the Sony since the pixel size of the HVX is larger than of the Z1/FX1. There is still something strange going on with the HVX, it does not add up !!!!!! I am curious how the PAL version will perform.
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Cees, please try to stick to facts rather than sending up six (yes, SIX) exclamation marks.

If you want things to "add up", you might want to look into the HVX being at least twice as light-sensitive as the Sony!!!!!! and then things all magically fall into place.
 
He's right!!!!!!!

I thought I would top it by using 7 exlamations. Forgive me if that seems a little punctuation crazy but thats just how strongly I feel about the whole HVX/punctuation thing.

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Alex Leith said:
As has been discussed here a few times, the Canon also has a comperable amount of noise... in fact all 1/3in CCD cameras have visible noise, with the Sony Z1s/FX1s being the quietest.
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Not sure about that, but fair enough, comparable...but my subjective opinion is that the H1 has less obtrusive noise in low light.
 
Barry_Green said:
Cees, please try to stick to facts rather than sending up six (yes, SIX) exclamation marks.

If you want things to "add up", you might want to look into the HVX being at least twice as light-sensitive as the Sony!!!!!! and then things all magically fall into place.
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I may of missed this - but what are these "...things..." that "...magically fall into place."? There's really not anything all that magical about any of these cameras.

-Greg
 
You missed the point. Nobody was saying that anything was magical about a camera. I was getting frustrated with Cees' constant, incessant, incendiary habit of shouting "fire" in a crowded theater by always trying to raise some red flag somewhere or other. I've asked him before to tone it down but he doesn't. So now he's trying to stir up another question, and I point out that "oh, guess what, if you factor ALL the elements into the equation, guess what: things DO add up. Isn't that just like magic?"

Sorry, a bit fed up with the !!!!!! thing I guess.
 
To get back to what was originally being asked, for ENG work in a broadcast network's workflow then P2 makes a LOT of sense. They have the money to afford a lot of cards thus avoiding offloading in the field. This is the ideal environment for P2 technology and the one that by my understanding Panny have been pushing for around 3 years.
I don't know why several people here keep saying P2 is NEW, it's quite old, predates HDV by a long time.
The problem for Panasonic seems to be that broadcasters are very conservative, they really just haven't embraced P2 like I'd have thought they would have.
On the other hand XDCAM is taking off big time. I guess they see being able to put the disks on a shelf as an archive an advantage, doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me, the disks have a rewrite capability that's several orders of magnitude better than tape. I guess they're cheap so what the heck they think although I've heard one story about at least one station not realising they could be rewritten :)
 
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