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HDX-900 lens shading anyone qualified from Panasonic care to answer
Anyone from Panasonic care to answer the following questions in detail?
Will the HDX-900 have both horizontal and vertical saw and para white and black shading instead of the automatic white shading feature found on the SDX-900 ?
Will the HDX 900 have vmod RGB and master adjustments?
How many lens files can be stored to the camera head and SD card?
Are RB gain values stored as part of the lens files?
Thanks,
Tony Salgado
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[tony salgado] “Anyone from Panasonic care to answer the following questions in detail?
I am not qualified by panasonic…but i can help out I think
Will the HDX-900 have both horizontal and vertical saw and para white and black shading instead of the automatic white shading feature found on the SDX-900 ?
Yes the camera has H saw and V saw as well as H and V para control for R,G,and B channels.
Will the HDX 900 have vmod RGB and master adjustments?
It has R and B gain control for each setting (Preset, a or b) plus and offset option for maintaining any value changes during white balance. There is also RGB pedestal and Flare control
How many lens files can be stored to the camera head and SD card?
It seems 8 lens files can be stored in camera at once and 64 in a sd card (8 titles x 8 files)
Are RB gain values stored as part of the lens files?”
Yes..sort of I think you can set the RB gain values and turn off the Reset setting in the Lens file adj. menu and values will be stored. I am not sure if unique RB gain settings are stored for each file or simply not reset to zero…but I will check this out more.
BTW the camera looks great! Have not had much time to play but seems to be everything as promised.
Taylor
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Thanks Taylor for your detailed reply.
Did you by chance find any Vmod menus?
When did you receive your camera?
Tony Salgado
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Tony,
Unless I am missing something I have not seen any menus with reference to Vmod. Could it be listed as something else? The menus are a blend of SDX and Varicam menus but are more like the SDX. There seems to be more control of the camera in general than the SDX and lots more control over camera outputs. The video and monitor outs have extensive settings specific to each.
The new remote looks like it will have its own video out with unique settings for that as well. The remote, I do not have yet, but will have a video path down its cable which is a plus over the two cable setup of the SDX. But I hear rumors of big $$ for it..
The downcoverter has a lot of detail and signal settings in menus and a user switch on the outside panel next to audio section. Interestingly you can switch from HDSDI, SDSDI, and composite video on this switch… I can not find if the SDSDI output is 8 or 10bit but it looks quite good on the 8.4 pana monitor.I will post more as I get more time on it.
I picked up mine on Thursday the 24th.
cheers
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Taylor the RCP is similar in operation and price to the Sony RMB-750 which makes the unit some much more powerful and responsive for engineering access as well as creativity compared to the lame duck EC-3.
One of my major disappointments has been with the lack of higher end RCP’s from Panasonic for their camcorders. They finally caught up to the other “big boys”. I regret the unit will not work with the SDX or Varicam as I was told this at NAB 2006.
Ironically Sony’s RMB-750 RCP will work with the new F900R camera which has new processing as well as the prior generation F900/3.
Why Panasonic could not do the same with the HDX-900 and SDX/Varicam remains to be answered.
Tony Salgado
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