My New XH-A1s Photos

Taky

Taky

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In additional to my two Canon HV30s and XH-A1, please welcome the new member, XH-A1s. I still need to read the manual to try to understand and play with the new feature. I will report back shortly.

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There are more photos here -> http://lacolorshop.com/blog/view.asp?id=19
 
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Overall I like it very much. I also believe that's what XH-A1 should be. At least a firmware upgrade should fixed some of the issue with XH-A1.

One of the biggest annoying things of the XH-A1 is, it focus very slowly in 30F and 24F mode. I found the focus engine works a lot faster now. The ease-in and ease-out zooming machanism also help in my opinion.

Another annoying problem for XH-A1 is, when I pan and zoom out at the same time, in certain range, the screen starting to scroll (it's hard to describe). It shows on LCD screen also be recorded to tape. I don't see it today at all.

What I don't like, the zoom ring, focus ring and iris ring are very heavy. I like it the old way before.

AGC limiter rocks. I can now limit AGC to 3db max. It works very well in dim room.

There're other physical changes. Those to me are really minor. All the things that were not doing right in XH-A1 is fixed in XH-A1s. It is also definitely can be fixed by a firmware update.
 
Hello Taky,
one "silly" question: Is the colour / finish of the body absolutely identical between both cameras? I am selling some replacement parts on ebay, and announced them for both cameras (top handle cocer and top handle buttons cover) but now It came into my mind, that i read something about a difrent finish. But on your photographs, the finish looks the same...
All the best,
Frame
 
Frame, I don't really feel or see any different in the color/finish of the body. I think they are identical.

Taky
 
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