Posted by doc on 12/23/01 11:27

BTW, just wanted to thank everyone for the input and ideas as how to
discuss, examine, and test out, these various cams and to let everyone know
that, as of this afternoon we've switched gears and unless something changes
by monday morning, we're going to go with three (3) DVC60's because as many
have suggested in here the DVX100A is somewhat unstable in the studio when
panning now while we won't be doing much panning (hardly any at all) we
didn't like how it really struggled to hold color adjustment when the f stop
increased in manual and there were actually points where it couldn't find a
stable point for about 3 to 6 seconds. that's too outta there for us.

in addition, the dvc60 (about a 1000 cheaper) and with it being much more
stable and when in total manual has a nice DOF and really nice color
stability it was obviously a wreck when the f stop got too far out AND the
shutter was set to the 1000's it went crazy and really looked cool :o)

in addittion, BECAUSE OF THE SAVINGS and because the 60's are not a
comfortable camera to pack around and play with we might get ONE SONY pd150
or 170 with the left over cash (or if we have enough money OR are close) a
Sony Z1U so that we have HD capability, after all it's coming just "when"?

OR , we'll hold the cash and just wait for the new HD cams coming out in
november from jvc, canon, and panasonic. the line up looks good and we're
excited but we'll certainly opt to wait to buy one till next summer when (as
a college professor who consults movie makers put it) a "letter" - "dot
numeral" - or other modification fixation that the manufacturer's put on a
camera once the bugs are worked out and thus want to launch the "GOODIE" cam
as a newer updated model (when in fact it's just the old model with all the
crap gone :o)

anyways, thanks sooooooo much for all your help and to all those who
prersisted with us in moving forward.

doc

"doc" <doc@drdimento.net> wrote in message
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> Hi all. Can I get some input from folks as to how well the Panasonic
> DVX100A is on producing 4:3 aspect footage? I need to produce a TV show
> with three cameras and the show format is 4:3. Currently the show is
> being produced through the use of Sony Betacam's that are about 12 years
> old and I think 330 lines of resolution and we want to know if this
> DVX100A will produce footage that is less than, equal too, or better than
> what we're getting now on Betacam tape?
>
> We've looked at Sony's FX1 and Z1U and Canon's XL2 and while the Canon has
> much better sound it's 1/3" 16:9 ccd's mean that a 4:3 will captured on
> something in the neighborhood of 1/4" when the ccd's are limited by the
> cameras operation AND we've learned that the FX1 is perhaps the lowest
> audio quality of all camcorders in the prosumer line(s). We've also
> learned that if one captures in HD or 16:9 and then outputs to 4:3 the
> result is clip that is low in color quality, sound, and will look lower
> than the current betacam's we have.
>
> Many thanks in advance for your kind consideration and comments in this
> matter.
>
> doc
>

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