Battery Life

[Frank Nolan]

How much recording time you get is going to de directly affected by how much set up and standby time you have, so it is hard to say. For instance if you put a fresh battery in the camera and loaded up a couple of P2 cards and kept recording you would probably have to have quite a few cards or a way of offloading the footage to kept the cards in rotation. I have filled about 8 cards off one battery with set up time, standby mode etc.

[Mike Laur]

We usually get a full day of on-again, off-again shooting with the HVX200 on P2 media (from two to eight cards-full of material) on two batteries, normally switching to the second batttery about two or three in the afternoon.

I’ve shot on one battery for three or four days as well, but the camera was only swithched on when it was actually “rolling”

I’d recommend carrying three fully-charged batteries, esp. if you’re going to keep the camera on all the time, for a day’s outing.

BTW – we “roll” film and we “roll” tape. What do you call recording to P2 solid state cards?

I still say “we’re rolling”, “Record” sounds so sterile and technical. Any other thoughts?

Mike L