Posted by doc on 09/22/05 03:11

John, you had any experience with the DVC60?

doc

"Moving Vision" <mv@movingvision.co.uk> wrote in message
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> 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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>
> Whatever
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> John Lubran

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