No, P2 is taking over in the broadcast realm. Well, "has" taken over. If anything, I see a gap widening between the lower end and the ENG/broadcast end. AVC-Intra and AVC-Ultra will be the future of P2. But for those who want/need inexpensive/commodity recording media, that's what AVCCAM is for.
Yes it's much more heavily compressed. It's 21 megabits, and it's long-GoP, and it's 4:2:0, and it's 8-bit. That doesn't make it "bad", it's far far better than HDV and it's even better than Sony's XDCAM-HD and XDCAM-EX formats. But it's not AVC-Intra by any stretch! That's why many of us are pining for a second camera, an AF150 or something like that, that uses P2 and AVC-Intra.
The HPX171 does lots of things the AVCCAM cameras don't, like HD-SDI output, variable frame rates, and P2 is a much more robust recording format, and it's the broadcast industry standard and it's an edit medium that supports up to 12 streams of realtime HD.
OMG! this thing is UGLY!
looks like an old 8mm camera minus the pistol grip........
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Well, it's aimed directly at digital cinema; I don't know that you could call it "Panasonic's first attempt" at digital cinema, I mean, they did kind of dominate it with the Varicam; they sold about 8x as many Varicams as Sony sold F900s.
Who would have wanted it? What lenses would they have used? 1/3" interchangeable has been done, and in the handheld form factor it was pretty much a flop. The DVX outsold the XL2 by, what, 100 to 1? The HVX and Z1 outsold the XLH1 by maybe 500 to 1. Handycam interchangeable lens was never a big priority.
Nonsense. JVC's had an interchangeable-lens 1/3" camera since 2005. Canon's had one since 1996. Sony's had one for a couple of years. None of them have been big successes, all have been dwarfed by the sales of non-interchangeable-lens 1/3" cameras. How many XHA1s do you think were sold, vs. XLH1s? Probably at least 40 to 1, my guess.
Really? Being the very first manufacturer with a sub-$6,000 interchangeable-lens digital-cinema camera is being "too late"? Since when is being first, "too late"?
Surely you're not talking about Scarlet, a product that a) doesn't exist, and b) will be 2/3" anyway, so that's pretty irrelevant when compared to an AF100. Or are you talking about the Red One? $30,000 for a kit... Panasonic has been making Varicams for about a decade, so ... what does that have to do with the AF100?
From a Red One? Certainly. Which is one reason why it costs 5x the price for a shooting kit.
Well, not for 4K, certainly -- because the AF100 doesn't do 4K. Or 3K. But in 1080p... well, let's put it this way -- for the folks who happen to think that DSLRs compete with Red footage, then they should be thrilled with the AF100, which should be handily better than any DSLR.
It will be a 1.18 crop off of the cinema frame.
