What's up with the HPX-3000 ???

doondoon

doondoon

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Am I missing something?

Is the HPX-3000 Panasonic's new "flag ship" top of the line camera ?

Full raster 1920X1080 HD mastering quality with the new AVC Codec... it sounds incredible. Yet I have heard next to nothing about it. None of the other forums really have much info or forum chatter either.

It seems like the Varicams days are numbered in terms of being at the top of Panny's line. So is the HPX-3000 the replacement? I know it doesn't do variable speeds.
 
It's what it's being referred to to, at least informally.

Lest there be any confusion, the 3000 is NOT the Varicam II.
 
David is correct, the HPX3000 is not "the new VariCam". If for no other reason, because it doesn't have variable frame rates!

The HPX3000 is more like Panasonic's answer to the F900R. Full-raster, 10-bit, AVC-HD.

There will be a new VariCam someday, but the best I've heard says "it's at least 12 to 18 months away."
 
Has anyone seen this unit perform yet? I'm dealing with dealers in Canada who provide little -if any- info and yet we're looking very seriously at this because of the Intra codec and progressive CCD's.

We've got a feature going at the end of January and I'm getting zero information. I'd love to see what a 35mm blow up looks like with the Intra codec as we're guaranteed theatrical release on several screens.

My Red One won't ship until likely end of principle photography so I need to consider what my alternatives are.
 
Yes I've played with it a bit, and heard from guys who own rental houses in Australia who spent a day with it. John Bowring of Lemac was extremely pleased with it, he put it through a complete battery of tests and said that in terms of sharpness it's quite superior to their prior sharpness king, the F900R. He was very impressed with the unit overall, especially the performance of the CAC circuitry.

It's very low noise and very very sharp. I put the 500, 2100, and 3000 through a mini-test of using the same tripod and same lens, and swapping out the body. The 2100 was sharper than the 500, and the 3000 was noticeably sharper than the 2100.

Ian Bates saw a "shootout" at the Jackson Hole film festival that featured the F23, HPX3000, Red, and others. He said that the HPX3000 and F23 were visually indistinguishable. Considering the F23 costs 4x as much, that's saying something for the 3000.
 
Does anyone know how this works in the camera:

Scan Reverse Function for Film Lens Use The AJ-HPX3000 can use an ultra prime lens and even an anamorphic lens adapter that creates a 2.35:1 aspect image for wide-screen cinematic shooting without cropping the image. Its scan reverse function cancels the image inversion that occurs when Angenieux's HD lens adaptor is used.

Has this been tried, and if so, what results?
 
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