Posted by Moving Vision on 09/21/05 09:42

In article <5YZXe.8423$T55.6690@trndny06>, doc <doc@drdimento.net>
writes
>hmmmm. wonder where they're selling them? every store i contacted within
>128 miles including among them akron, cleveland, and pittsubugh, didn't have
>one in stock but could get one in a week, and not because their sold out but
>because they just sit on the shelf. the largest seller has sold 6 in nearly
>a year (8.5 months to be exact) while on the other side one small place
>outside pittsburgh has sold over 100 this past summer, many to television
>stations who love to through one in every car they have going to the street
>because of the cameras video and sound quality. one tv producer said that
>they bought three z1u's found that they had to get a separte portable dat
>recorder to pack and take the ouput of the z1u to the dat for video and
>carry a side pack audio mixer for sound because the sound was so poor on the
>z1u. in fact, he said that the operators hated the camera soooo bad that
>they preferred the old betacams and the production manager said he had to
>rid the station of the beta's to force the use of the z1u and when the
>panasonic rep came in he gave them some credit for their sony betacams and
>loaded them up with several dvx100a's and that the stations insurance
>company bought 5 more dvx100s when theree only three z1u's met with
>disaster. one fell out of the back of a moving mini van (hmmm don't those
>doors open up and have a ledge that nothing on the floor can fall out?),
>another was dropped in a lake during a shot involving the two remaining
>cams, and the 3rd was accidently run over when the bag was left on the
>ground. hmmmmmm, all that happend in 6-7 months. they love the 100a's and
>have since purchased two more and now there is a camera for every field
>vehicle they own plus two in the studio for quickie footage like the news
>update outside where they don't want to risk their $10K plus cams.
>
>fyi,
>
>doc
>


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