why aren't there more reviews?

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brianluce

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One would think there would be more first hand user reports by now. Even the shootout, only Barry posted some comments. what about all the other people that were there? Does this camera actually exist? or is it an urban legend? a myth? an internet joke?
 
There are very few cameras in the hands of end users at this point, thus very few reviews. Give it about a month and my guess is you'll start to see them come rolling in.
 
HVX200 is more real than the RED camera.

Not everyone come to these forum.

Also I think there is ennuf personal review and comments of the hvx200. I can't wait to see result from the 4(6?) cam test. And I love Marc comments about his filming in the army. But like when I get my camera, here is the sumary of it : It kick my Sony handheld Digital8 camera and my Canon PowerShot G3 video capability, but image quality SUCK compare to my Canon 20D.
 
Most of the people that have camera in hand are too busy admiring and using it to take the time to tell the rest of us about it.
Thank You to those few who do take the time to share objectively.
 
Well,
What I wonder about is that all the boards at DVinfo were so hot with "Mine is the best camera for under 10,000" and now that the test has happened, nobody, except Barry and some tech notes, posted any opinion.
Why the silence - or am I missing something ?
Is everyone waiting for the test to be posted?
 
Assume that to date, 100 cameras have shipped. (I have no idea how many, but it's just a number to work with.) Of the 100 HVX-200 users out there, how many are on this forum? Not everyone is going to be active on this forum. If as many as 5% or 5 users are active on this forum, how many are going to post anything? Before you say all 5%, remember that if they do say they have the camera, they will be burried in messages and email questions.

Choice A, play with camera. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Choice B, spend your time dealing with all the questions and messages. :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:

Just wait a month or so and you'll see a lot more users out there.


Bob Diaz
 
The thing is, that particular test doesn't have a lot of footage to post. It was charts and specs. That's not the kind of thing anyone really wants to see anyway. We only did one shot that looked like the kind of thing people would want to see, which is the dynamic range test; Adam is putting something together on that. We so thoroughly ran out of time we didn't get to do anything but vectorscope and white balance and res chart testing, and that's all boring tech stuff that maybe Jay and Adam and I would geek out on, but it doesn't really help anyone make a decision about which one they like or how they actually perform in the real world.

There's a second test scheduled for the end of February which will probably prove much more illuminating, because they'll have three days, and they'll have learned all sorts of stuff from ours (Adam is involved in both). That's the one where the posted footage and results will come from. They'll have time to set up greenscreen shots and outdoor shots and indoor setups and all that stuff. What we did answered the key questions we set out to get -- dynamic range, sensitivity, noise, and res (although we're still in a holding pattern on the res stuff, there's still some research being done on what happened there). Adam's working on an article for DV.com, should be posted within a few days I'd suspect.
 
Thinking aloud about the difficulties of conducting a complete and comprehensive test of HVX200 for all perormance related issues and what BobDiaz rightly pointed out about no of cameras out there with people I have one suggestion. Why dont we come up with a suggestion list and guideline for conducting these tests by other users in this forum who have the camera and post there findings and openion? Through the discussion we can fine tune the process of tests. This format can acrt as a frame work for any other test of similar nature in the future. So it become relatively easy to go and do a test for single camera and compair with the test done earlier for other model.(Not for every aspects but at least for charts etc.) Something like dv preview people(http://www.dpreview.com) do for digital cameras but here the difference is that it is conducted by different individuals with a common guidelines. It is not something which will materialise soon but it become stronger and fast once the process is set in.
 
brianluce,

It does exist, and it works beautifuly. I'm in a very tight post timeline with the 3 days of greenscreen shooting we finished up last Friday. As soon as I can get my head above water, I'll be able to post a review. But the quick and dirty is, it works, it looks great, the clients loved it, and I can't own it fast enough.

-filmstox
 
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