where can i buy a new hmc150?

dwelter said:
Why would you want to buy a new 150?
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Yeah, try looking for a good used one. I bought one (well, technically my church bought it, I just set up the sale) from DVXUser 8String. He took pretty good care of it and it works great, even though it was used fairly regularly and was a couple years old. The nice thing about the newer card/file based cameras is that unless they were absolutely abused, 4 hours or 1400 hours on them really doesn't make a difference. And they all come with a long warrenty since it's from the broadcast division that follows the camera regardless of who owns it.
 
I just purchased my HMC150 new from B&H this past Thursday 09/01 I paid extra for 2nd day shipping and received it the next day at 10:30 a.m.!!!

Back story - a couple of weeks ago it went out of stock at B&H at the exact moment I had decided to pull the trigger... anyway I hit the "Notify When In Stock" button and patiently waited. So on Thursday morning 8 am (keep in mind I'm in Los Angeles) I received an e-mail notification from B&H that they had them in stock on a first come first serve basis. I clicked on the link that they provided so fast that I almost broke my iPhone!

I decided to go with the 2nd day shipping because my last big ticket purchase from B&H (a 7D with two prime lenses) I had opted for the free shipping, it took over 7 days and the shipping box not only had water damage but it looked like it had been kicked all the way from NY to LA. So I figured if I chose 2nd day shipping on a purchase of $3K what's and extra $50 for piece of mind and also it's less time for the "free shipping" slow cross country trek for the UPS guys to play football with my camera on the shipping docks.

Needless to say the camera arrived in mint condition the very next day and it came packed in THREE boxes... one rather large B&H shipping box with those air packets, another Panasonic box and then the actual Panasonic HMC150 box. This thing was snug as a bug. Oh, one interesting note, there was a printed shipping sticker from Panasonic Japan saying it was box "374 of 412." I'd love to know out of 412 boxes how many of those were HMC150's... 412 boxes, that's a hell of a lot-o cash!

Sorry for the long winded first post here... I found this forum because I wasn't aware of the "clunking" noise the HMC has when it's not powered on. LOL

Now on to my next big hurdle, seeing how badly Apple screwed up FCP X (no way in hell I'd use that now) my 2009 iMac isn't powerful enough for Premiere Pro CS5 so I get to purchase a new Mac Pro. This is both good and bad, the good I get the computer I've always wanted... the bad; in the negotiations with my wife I lost out and have to paint the interior of our house... little does she know I actually like painting... don't tell her that, HA!

Anyone want to point me in the right direction (thread-wise) on spec-ing out a new computer I'd appreciate it.

And to the OP I'd go to B&H and click the "Notify When In Stock" button.
 
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Jim Simon said:
One reason might be that it uses superior CCD technology, rather than the inferior CMOS.
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"Superior" and "Inferior" are entirely subjective terms that depend completely on one's particular set of criteria, which may not apply to the next person. Hendosan is right... CCD and CMOS are simply two different way of getting to an end, each with it's pro's and con's.
 
LEGO brick said:
I just purchased my HMC150 new from B&H this past Thursday 09/01 I paid extra for 2nd day shipping and received it the next day at 10:30 a.m.!!!

Back story - a couple of weeks ago it went out of stock at B&H at the exact moment I had decided to pull the trigger... anyway I hit the "Notify When In Stock" button and patiently waited. So on Thursday morning 8 am (keep in mind I'm in Los Angeles) I received an e-mail notification from B&H that they had them in stock on a first come first serve basis. I clicked on the link that they provided so fast that I almost broke my iPhone!

I decided to go with the 2nd day shipping because my last big ticket purchase from B&H (a 7D with two prime lenses) I had opted for the free shipping, it took over 7 days and the shipping box not only had water damage but it looked like it had been kicked all the way from NY to LA. So I figured if I chose 2nd day shipping on a purchase of $3K what's and extra $50 for piece of mind and also it's less time for the "free shipping" slow cross country trek for the UPS guys to play football with my camera on the shipping docks.

Needless to say the camera arrived in mint condition the very next day and it came packed in THREE boxes... one rather large B&H shipping box with those air packets, another Panasonic box and then the actual Panasonic HMC150 box. This thing was snug as a bug. Oh, one interesting note, there was a printed shipping sticker from Panasonic Japan saying it was box "374 of 412." I'd love to know out of 412 boxes how many of those were HMC150's... 412 boxes, that's a hell of a lot-o cash!

Sorry for the long winded first post here... I found this forum because I wasn't aware of the "clunking" noise the HMC has when it's not powered on. LOL

Now on to my next big hurdle, seeing how badly Apple screwed up FCP X (no way in hell I'd use that now) my 2009 iMac isn't powerful enough for Premiere Pro CS5 so I get to purchase a new Mac Pro. This is both good and bad, the good I get the computer I've always wanted... the bad; in the negotiations with my wife I lost out and have to paint the interior of our house... little does she know I actually like painting... don't tell her that, HA!

Anyone want to point me in the right direction (thread-wise) on spec-ing out a new computer I'd appreciate it.

And to the OP I'd go to B&H and click the "Notify When In Stock" button.
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Awesome story btw! Question... Do you have the go Mac? If you are open to a PC there is quite a bit of inexpensive customization you can do with Raid drives, high end video cards, core i7 processors with 8gb of ram, that will cost a third of what a Mac will run you. If you are a Mac fan (and I wouldn't blame you, they are reliable clean machines) then I have no advice for you aside from go for it! The main thing you are going to run into is the fact that there isn't a harddrive big enough or fast enough... for any of us!

Ideally you would have a raid configuration for editing footage, and a redundant server backup (maybe 4tb to start with) for archiving footage. I don't know what you do, but HD footage takes alot of memory in terms of editing and storage, unless you don't plan on archiving, or plan to just burn tons and tons of data DVDs!

Another hurdle you'll run into is the fact that AVCHD footage takes alot of power to edit. One or two cams and you wont really notice it, especially in Premiere (which I am currently learning after the lack of Magic Bullet support for Vegas), but once you get some color grading applied, or run a 4 camera multi-cam edit, you will notice everything start to drag. This is where having that core i7, a raid array, tons of ram and a great motherboard will help out immensely.

Good luck brother!

(CCD is definitely superior to CMOS at everything except for cost and sharpness. I hate rolling shutter more and more daily.)
 
HotConductor said:
Good luck brother!
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Thanks! I'm gonna need it.

Believe me I've thought about going PC... being a Mac fan boy all my life is the main hurdle. And learning an entirely foreign (to me) OS is not on my list of things to do in addition to learning Premiere and the camera.

I'll definitely look into the PC aspect... I have a little time before I'm going to be editing any footage... I'm shooting an on going single camera doc right now so in the next few weeks I'll be building/configuring the computer.

Why does it feel like every time I go to put my big toe into the "HD" water the pool grows to the size of the Pacific ocean? HA!

My God what have I done!?!
 
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