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  Camera and Deck Question

  Posted by Sean Mcculley on June 23, 2005 at 5:21 pm

  My cameraman is considering buying a new camera and wants to move away from betaSP towards the digital world. I’m curious as to what others are using out there and what I need to consider in my edit bay. I know I’ll be purchasing a new deck for my Adrenaline.

  Any comments about good cameras, decks and items to consider would be great. We shoot mostly car commercials, blue screen, indoor and outdoor settings, run and gun type of stuff.

  Nothing extremely expensive also.

  Thanks!
  Sean

  Sean Mcculley replied 20 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Michael Thomson

  June 23, 2005 at 6:38 pm

  Hi Sean,

  If you want to avoid spending too much, that will rule out digibeta. Why not look at SX.

  Miles better than SP, plays back SP tapes in deck, camera and decks also record SX onto SP tape stock (almost doubling the duration) has good low light compensation etc etc

  Camera model DNW9-WSP 4:3 / 16:9 switchable, if your in UK you can get one used for well under 10K if you look around.

  Deck DNW-A75P, if theres a more reliable deck for the edit suite then i aint come across it yet.

  Another option at that quality is DVCPRO 25, but your familiarity with SP makes SX decks the natural progression (ignoring the pricey digibeta)

  Hope that helps
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  Charley King

  June 23, 2005 at 10:51 pm

  I wouldn’t recommend DVC Pro 25, if you are doing a lot of blue screen work, it is too compressed. DVC Pro 50 isn’t that much more than 25 and is comparable to Digibeta in most areas.

  Charlie
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  Sean Mcculley

  June 24, 2005 at 8:19 pm

  Thanks for the info!

  We might also consider a D9 camera as we have have a D9 deck already.

  Sean

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