Not impressed.

icicle22 said:
That was the tone of the info I heard just a little before the official announcement. So I have never thought of this as an HDV camera. But to each his own.
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Well than this brings up the question on who has the best deals on HD Decks?
These are not cheap. Are there other cheaper HD-SDI solutions?
 
The only other solution and a cheaper one, is to bring a desktop computer with a RAID hard drive set-up to your location, and capture with your NLE. For studio environments this shouldn't be a big problem, on location it could be.
 
Yeah, I have a Sony Z1 sitting around, but of course it's HDV and that sucks. But it does have component output, and I also have a Panasonic HD1200a DVCPro HD deck. So my big idea was running the component out of the Z1 into an Aja Io and then SDI out of that into the Panasonic deck.

No dice. The $2000 Io (in addition to having to be tethered to a Mac just to select inputs) doesn't do HD. Lame.

BUT, Aja also has a little converter called the HD10A, which looks perfect for this. Unfortunately, the Panasonic deck is still $20,000 I think, and although it's small for a deck it's bulky for a portable setup. Still, this seems like the cheapest DVCPro HD setup for the time being.
 
wabbit said:
I have read a couple of these post about how good the Canon looked and have been wondering why no one cried foul on this.
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Yeah, I thought that was goddamned weird too! Thank god, someone in the RESfest L.A. audience pointed that out in the Q&A, and I was like, "Whhhhaaaaaattt???" Then they showed this BTS footage of the Canon H1 demo shoot. They had as much gear on that shoot as I've seen on any Hollywood feature production! Camera cars, cranes, dollies, huge HMIs . . . I mean, the scale of production was ridiculous. And to record that to an HD VTR is just plain misleading. Shame on Canon for not ANNOUNCING (without being questioned by a savvy attendee) that what we were watching was actually a goddamned full-res, 4:2:2, non-MPEG, HD signal.
 
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