Now or wait

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Nasser

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Hello
Just sold my Sony EX1 and Canon XHA1 , shall I get AF-100 or wait for 2012 NAB announcements , I do have 5D Mark II .:happy:
Any thoughts ....
Thanks
 
that rebate puts the camera under $3850. I'm biased of course- but most would agree that's amazing for what this camera does. 'Course that offer ends right before NAB :happy:
 
Ed Kishel said:
that rebate puts the camera under $3850. I'm biased of course- but most would agree that's amazing for what this camera does. 'Course that offer ends right before NAB :happy:
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+1 Great deal.

That just kills the used market for folks gambling that a new whatever is coming………
So if you can get a used AF-100 for possibly $3K or less? Wow.
 
It would be nice if that offer extended to Canadian residents...I hate how you Americans get all the perks!
 
The distributers have been trying to sell AF100s with bunch of freebies. As mentioned above you can pick-up a used Af100 close to or less than $3000 in few weeks/months. Check out how Sony is coming to market. The price of FS100 hasn't been dropped or you can hardly find a used one on ebay, on the contrary bunch of AF100s on the market for sale. In the light of price cutting of S-log Now either sony is coming up new version of F3 or something new from scratch.
IMOH, the empire of HVX200 has been taken by Sony and Canon - unless Pan is cooking something evolutionary in the oven it will be like this quite while.

As current owner of HPX250, HVX200 and ex-owner of two Af100s, i would suggest you to "wait and see"...
 
Panasonic should brew this: a baby AF- a re-packaged GH2 with XLR inputs, zebras, timecode, and scene file adjustments.
They have done it before with thier pro-sumer line:

DVX100.... to DVC30
HMC150... to HMC40
AF100.... to AF60?

Put a nice hassleblad-like rotating grip on the side, leave the firmware open and slap on a $1950 price tag. Done and done. Save VFR, waveform, NDs and dual SDHC slots for the AF100.

I would expect/hope for this announcement before an AF upgrade.
 
Just remember that any new "toy" you see at NAB will unlikely be on the street for several, sometime many months. I've seen it take as long as a year (much longer for the "RED") Never a good to jump into the product cycle. Just hold your nose and jump. I figure my camera rental at around $400 of my day rate so the pay back on the AF-100 did not take long. But since you're this close to NAB might as well wait. If you see a better camera you can always rent until it's available.
 
There will always be a new camera in the pipeline no matter when you buy. At some point you just jump in. Usually that time is when a new camera will get you more jobs.
 
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