New York Times Article!!!

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dv-davie

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did any of you guys see our beloved DVX and XL2 featured in the circuits page of the New York Times (12/16/04). although the article highlighted information we all know already, it was still cool to see. i think it was a little funny though that the only con they could come up with for the DVX is that is requires user experience to operate and the XL2 is just bulky. :P
 
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When they called for a camera to review I was wondering how it was going to turn out. Then when I talked to the reviewer, I wondered even more. The fact that he said it requires user experience to operate means that consumers won't buy it and I won't have to deal with questions like "why does it stutter when I pan?" ;-)

But its a mention in the NY Times, that's pretty cool. The little camera that could is just popping up everywhere. It's in the opening film at Sundance, Happy Endings, in a starring role, with Lisa Kudrow as the filmmaker; it is in John Bailey's new film" Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," and actually gets to have some of its footage used in the film, though the majority is on 35mm. I have another picture of Darryl Hannah holding the little guy in her latest film. I know John Kerry had one, but obviously he didn't use it correctly or he would have won. ;-)

Does anyone here know which if any of the films at Slamdance or Sundance were done with the DVX or the SDX?

Thanks,

Jan
 
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Jan - I know of at least one film that was shot with a DVX that DIDN'T get into Sundance (or Slamdance) :'(

Oh well - maybe next year!
 
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Jan, if you go to the IMdB (Techinical) page

http://www.imdb.com/SearchTechnical/

And type "DVX100" (not with the "A") in the field on the left side that is headed "Search Again" you will get a list of 72 films shot on the lil' one.
Whether they made it to a festival or not, I don't know, but you might recognize some titles.
 
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Here's the 100A portion of the review, which did NOT single out the DVX100A as requiring more user experience.

More expensive camcorders have more customizable settings and features, but taking advantage of these requires more knowledge. Although a camera like the Panasonic AG-DVX100A (list price $4,000) can operate as a point-and-shoot, its principal charms are that it can be extensively configured using manual settings and that it shoots in a format that can be easily transferred to film.

The DVX100A's C.C.D.'s are a further step up from the Sony, this time to one-third-inch, 410,000-pixel chips. With this camera you can set shutter speed and exposure and alter color tint in the camera to create a blue-tinged, shadowy feel, like the look of "C.S.I.: N.Y.," which you couldn't get with automatic settings. The camera can record in the standard 30-frames-per-second format for video to be viewed on a television, or it can record at 24 frames per second, which is the speed of movie film. If plans call for transferring your homemade epic to film for a theatrical release, that would be especially important."
 
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Were they pitting the DVX against the XL2? Or just juxtaposing them?
 
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