Dino
Veteran
We have seen some odd product decisions from Panasonic the past few years, and I think it's a shame.
There was the HPX3700 Varicam that had no over crank, with pricing that was 2x what it should have been(A year later cut in half, ditto HPX2700).
The AF100 that had an inferior image to the GH2. Then nothing else on the large sensor front except AF100A. No Super 35 sensor camera. Imagine if there had been a large sensor ENG form factor Varicam? Or just a $10-15K large sensor camera, instead of letting Canon and Sony have that market.
The 4K Varicam is close to $60K when it delivers in the fall. No global shutter. It's as if we're watching Sony from a few years ago delivering the F35 flop. And F65 flop. Why would somebody buy the 4K Varicam for this price(without RAW recording), when a Sony F55 can be had today for half the price? I see the 4K Varicam getting a drastic price cut in its future(if it's to have much of a future). Is Panasonic not looking at the landscape of affordable 4K cameras? Their own GH4 is amazing.
The AJ-PX70 has been released without supporting many frame rates and resolutions with the various codec options. This is not how Panasonic normally delivers a product. it finally has the menu control that Sony has been providing with their palmcorders for years.
Why no affordable USB 3.0 P2 card reader?
I really want want to see Panasonic get back into the position they should be in. I know they had set backs due to financial losses company wide and the earthquake/Tsunami in Japan, but so did Sony, and it hasn't slowed them down.
We bought seven Panasonic cameras in the past six years, but I fear this trend will not continue if we keep seeing missteps from Panasonic.
There was the HPX3700 Varicam that had no over crank, with pricing that was 2x what it should have been(A year later cut in half, ditto HPX2700).
The AF100 that had an inferior image to the GH2. Then nothing else on the large sensor front except AF100A. No Super 35 sensor camera. Imagine if there had been a large sensor ENG form factor Varicam? Or just a $10-15K large sensor camera, instead of letting Canon and Sony have that market.
The 4K Varicam is close to $60K when it delivers in the fall. No global shutter. It's as if we're watching Sony from a few years ago delivering the F35 flop. And F65 flop. Why would somebody buy the 4K Varicam for this price(without RAW recording), when a Sony F55 can be had today for half the price? I see the 4K Varicam getting a drastic price cut in its future(if it's to have much of a future). Is Panasonic not looking at the landscape of affordable 4K cameras? Their own GH4 is amazing.
The AJ-PX70 has been released without supporting many frame rates and resolutions with the various codec options. This is not how Panasonic normally delivers a product. it finally has the menu control that Sony has been providing with their palmcorders for years.
Why no affordable USB 3.0 P2 card reader?
I really want want to see Panasonic get back into the position they should be in. I know they had set backs due to financial losses company wide and the earthquake/Tsunami in Japan, but so did Sony, and it hasn't slowed them down.
We bought seven Panasonic cameras in the past six years, but I fear this trend will not continue if we keep seeing missteps from Panasonic.
