Pricing in Europe

[princigalli]

Now the question is, how are they planning to sell the camera in Europe? Are they going to follow Apple's logic of 1€ = 1$ ? I hope not because we all know how much US$ are and by the time the camera comes out it might be even lower. If they go 1 to 1 I'll take an airplane, have a nice holiday in the US, buy a camera and fly back. Might still save cash that way.

The PAL/NTSC issue is no longer a problem. You film 720p in 24fps and that should be able to play anywhere, even when downconverted to PAL/NTSC resolution.

 

[Aaron Koolen]

I guess it will still be a problem if you take your camera to different places. Power systems for one are different, and also if you need to play your footage out to a TV. If you had an NTSC you'd be fine in PAL land I'd imagine as PAL TV's tend to support NTSC playback anyway, but I don't think it's the same the other way around.

I to am interested in the conversion or I'll be taking a trip to the US myself

Aaron

 

[princigalli]

New Zealand is quite far from the US I think, I don't know about how much it costs to travel to the US

Most cameras work with a variety of power systems. I've never had a camera that could not use 220, 240, or 110. TV systems is another problem, but because 24p can be used in PAL or NTSC countries, and the line count stays the same (720) I don't know where the problems could come from.

When you shoot PAL you are working with 576 lines and downconvert to 480 for NTSC, but still have the frame rate problem which you can only solve by filming in 24p or interpreting your footage from 25 to 24. Of course all of this works well only if it's progressive, because interlaced always looks bad in conversion. So anyway I think the new Panasonic will make all of this much easier.