Panasonic VariCam LT Specs Revealed

[Matt Gottshalk]

I think some people here overdivide the market. There are just two types of cameras to me, consumer and professional. There is not the DSLR market, the handicam market, the mid-priced shoulder market, and the high-end shoulder market.

Fortunately, back in the real world there are that many tiers.

And that's good, because life is all about having such simplistic binary choices.

 

[DLD]

I think some people here overdivide the market. There are just two types of cameras to me, consumer and professional. There is not the DSLR market, the handicam market, the mid-priced shoulder market, and the high-end shoulder market.

What you said earlier was correct though. There's camera snobbery everywhere. "Why use a $10,000 camera while I can use a $30,000 camera?" F55? Good. FS7 + Shogun/Q7+? Not good enough. Image difference? Minute to indiscernible.

That said, have you ever watched a golf tournament on a late Sunday afternoon? Golfers are walking toward the 16th-17th hole and the announcer says, "It's getting really dark out there. We're not sure if they can finish it tonight. Here's how it looks to a naked eye". And then they cut to an ISO 100 shot and the TV screen basically goes into a complete darkness. Now, get someone a camera with ND filters for the midday sun and a high ISO option for past the magic hour and they can keep shooting golf under both a sun or a moonlight (OK, the play itself might be a tad risky under moonlight with the winner ending up at + 50 but you get my point). And Varicam 35 fit into the "nice but too expensive" category. Varicam LT is "nice and priced just right".