• Panasonic Cameras

  100p output fried

  Posted by Michael Dunlop on August 27, 2008 at 12:20 am

  Footage and audio show fine on the LCD in playback and are captured ok w/firewire. Composite video, or SVHS, and audio out to a separate monitor are totally fried. The video jumps around with vertical/horizontal hold problems and audio is truly messed up. Even monitoring w/headphone during a shoot is a mess.

  Anybody have similar problems? Is it worth fixing @$130/hr or is it time to buy a new camera?

  Noah Kadner replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Noah Kadner

  August 27, 2008 at 8:24 pm

  You can get an estimate first. A new camera is a major expense. That said there are a lot of HD cameras out and coming- some from Panny that would be a nice upgrade such as the HMC150:

  https://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prModelDetail?storeId=11301&catalogId=13251&itemId=239668&modelNo=Content04102008010809224&surfModel=Content04102008010809224

  Might be a good excuse to go for something new.

  Noah

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  Michael Dunlop

  August 29, 2008 at 11:24 pm

  Yeah… I’m pretty sure I’ll be upgrading. Any experience with Sony HDV and the Z7?
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  Noah Kadner

  August 31, 2008 at 3:11 pm

  I’m not a huge fan of HDV. Especially when better codecs like XDCAM EX on the Sony side and AVCHD on the Panasonic side improve upon it.

  Noah

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