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Posted by mv on 09/27/42 11:39
In message <1139523171.299673.66600@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Mark
Spacey <vax2002news@tiscali.co.uk> writes
>a canon xm 2 can be bought on e.bay for around £950, used by the bbc
>where betacams are too bulky, if its good enough for the bbc its good
>enough for you
>
The XM2 is a nice camera and £950 is an excellent price for a GOOD used
one. However apocryphalic stories about equipment that the BBC use
should be taken with a pinch of salt. As a long time broadcast
professional myself I can reveal that at one time or another the BBC has
used just about every type of camera there is, but neither the XM2 or
indeed any other Canon DV type has ever been taken up by them in any
significant measure. The BBC DV Dept. at London's Wood Lane have been
responsible for testing and choosing the DV and HDV kit for large scale
acquisition and since 1997 these have included, pretty much exclusively,
the following Sony models;
VX1000, VX2000, VX2100, DSR PD 100, DSR PD 150, DSR PD170
Most of these models were acquired in the many hundreds if not thousands
of units.
Currently all compact DV's are being replaced by the Sony Z1, mostly
used in their DVCAM mode but particularly prized for their full
resolution 16x9 CCD's. The BBC is slowly, like all lumbering beasts,
learning how to use and integrate the HDV format into it's lumbering
and excruciatingly inefficient machine. (If 80% of their staff
disappeared tomorrow I doubt the viewing public would notice) I'd
predict that during the course of the next year or so HDV acquisition
will become the BBC's standard mode of shooting with these cameras
--
John Lubran
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