manglerBMX
Veteran
anyone heard of any more details on the hmc40? such as filter ring thread size?
Live from the Panasonic NAB press conference...
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Matt Gottshalk
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Tom 4
Well-known member
HELL chip, just demand a 1TB card by year end ! ... and at a lesser cost than the E series (Explosive/Economy/Elite/Endless/Euphoric/Etc) card.
Phew...
Tom K
Barry_Green
Moderator
Spec-Comm has posted that they're taking pre-orders...
dregenthal
Veteran
Jan- I think I'm going to get in on this one. Do you have any specific details on it yet?
Thanks.
Pufferfish Productions
Member
excited about this add-on configuration~
Anyone got any photos of the prototype @ the booth?
puredrifting
Major Contributor
The GH-1 is from the stills division, not from Jan and Co. The stills division does not attend NAB. Unless the president of Panasonic is there, there is likely nobody at the show who would be in the GH1 loop, unless they are going to re-align divisions and give Jan and Co. VDSLRs.
Dan
puredrifting
Major Contributor
Now that it seems all DSLRs will probably support HD video since the massive success of the 5d MKII, it does sort of seem to exist in a nowhere land. The still guys don't seem to know much about video and the video people probably see the further success of VDSLRs as a threat to their own video product lines.
Wish I had a crystal ball to see where this wil all be at this time next year.
Dan
Wish I had a crystal ball to see where this wil all be at this time next year.
Dan
Happy to say not the same as yours especially when you've invested heavily in P2 like you have.
Matt Gottshalk
Resident Preditor
And it's made me money.
puredrifting
Major Contributor
I stand corrected. Stu Maschwitz posted on his blog that Canon did have the 5D MKII at the booth there. Very unusual since up until now, the still guys and the video guys at Canon have never been able to mix and meet supposedly.
I think the VDSLR is really shaking things up these days, both with the market and with the internal structure at these companies.
Dan
I think the VDSLR is really shaking things up these days, both with the market and with the internal structure at these companies.
Dan
ullanta
Veteran
Ummm... Panasonic is saying that it will fail, after around 5 years of daily use. Everything fails.
I'm just wondering how gracefully it degrades... that is, we know that P2 verifies the write each time, but is there any clear mechanism for tracking/reporting the rate of write failures? Some way we can know it's time to stop using the things? Or will it one day (far off!) just say - "Error: Your Footage is Gone!"
Actually, they are saying that five years is a "use" limit. My understanding of what Jan was quoted as saying was that the card is meant to be written to 1825 times, which is once a day for five years. As the card approaches its limit, it is supposed to warn you of its impending doom. The card supposedly stops recording after that limit is reached (I assume it will still allow itself to be read).
Jan_Crittenden
Veteran
It doesn't fail, it stops working. The fact of the new memory is that it has liminted number of rewrites. If you use it EVERY day fill it completely EVERY day, it will stop working after 5 years. The rest of the construction is identical to the other P2 cards. If you don't fill it every day say you only record it half way every day, then it will last 10 years. It is a matter of rewriting the memory.
P2 Formatter will allow you to monitor its use and look at a Fuel Gauge. Additionally there will be warnings in the VF that say your card is running out of life. When it finally unable to record, and you will be well aware in advace that it is happening, you will be able to offload the last recorded video, nothing has failed.
Thanks,
Jan
Parker Yates
Member
5 years of daily use for the new p2 cards is a lot. This is great news for Panasonic and it's users. I wonder why its lifespan is shorter than the A series.
