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HVX 200 CCD Chip – Panasonic Question
What CCD resolution does the camera use natively. The pixel or sensor resolution? Not offset of any optical physics magic that may be going on…
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Panasonic isn’t telling. All we can do is look at the pictures the camera makes and see if we like them or not.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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thats just plain odd. like buying a car and Toyota not telling you if its a inline 4 or v8 engine you are getting.
this may be worth opening the camera to get to the truth.
I have to say that the more I learn or in this case don’t learn about this camera the less I like it.
Its starting to remind me of that old TV News Show “The Fleecing of America”.Except we are being fleeced by panasonic.japan
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[George] “I have to say that the more I learn or in this case don’t learn about this camera the less I like it.”
I understand your concern, but more interested in how the camera performs, and what the video quality is, workflow, and the like.
The analogy makes sense at first blush, but the car performs as you want, who the heck cares what’s under the hood.
David S.
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Yep- couldn’t even begin to tell you how a Prius’ engine works but they sure are fun to drive and get great gas mileage.
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Different horses for different courses perhaps, But I have a serious ethics issue with a technology vendor that will not honestly state a key and common performance specification for a product when all products in this class provide it for comparitive and technical analysis of the product. That’s unacceptable to me.
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[Noah Kadner] “Yep- couldn’t even begin to tell you how a Prius’ engine works but they sure are fun to drive and get great gas mileage.”
I’ll agree that the native pixel resolution doesn’t really make a big impact – but I do think the car analogy holds.
The HVX isn’t “the Prius” of videocameras.
Panasonic is trying to push this as a ‘professional’ camera.A car at the same level wouldn’t be seen as a ‘consumer’ car, would it?
It makes sense to keep the CCD specs out of consumer gear – I mean a guy shooting his kids birthday party probably doesn’t even know what the CCD specs mean anyhow. But if you’re selling to ‘professionals’ it seems like a strange move not to give all the information about what the camera is doing.Like I said, I don’t think it makes a big difference.
But personally I think it should be up to the buyer to decide what specs are important to them.Much like Canon and their 24F secrecy.
Luis Caffesse
Pitch Productions, LLC
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[Luis Caffesse] “Panasonic is trying to push this as a ‘professional’ camera.”
I guess the old adage obtains, “the proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
If the HVX200 performs with the picture quality I hope for, then I don’t understand what the concern is.
The CCD Chip stinks, but wow, what fabulous footage . . . I’m certain what the point is.
When I and others eventually can report objectively on quality, that’s all that matters to me.
If ain’t chips to objectively be a professional camera, but the quality is there, are you going to ignore it?
David S.
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Does the camera provide a HD image at this price point?
If that
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Sorry David, maybe I didn’t make myself clear.
I didn’t mean that the details of the CCD chips mattered – or that there was some ‘ccd spec cuttoff’ that would make a camera professional or non-professional. All I meant was that it’s strange not to release the full specs on a professional camera, seeing as most professionals should probably be well informed enough to know how to digest that information.I just think that if we are really in a ‘professional’ realm then it should be up to the buyer to decide what specs matter to them, seeing as theoretically we are talking about serious buyers who are making educated purchase decisions – not just people looking for a simple camera to shoot home movies with.
Luis Caffesse
Pitch Productions, LLC
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[David Saraceno] “When I and others eventually can report objectively on quality, that’s all that matters to me.”
I just wanted to add that I agree, that’s also all that matters to me.
I can tell you from the footage I was able to shoot with the HVX I was really impressed.
It’s a solid camera with a beautiful image.Luis Caffesse
Pitch Productions, LLC
Austin, Texas
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