Canon HDV camera records DVCPRO HD as well?

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[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “I have seen the lens on the HVX and I think it is very good. We had it in the lab an it is better than the other lenses I have seen on the JVC, which breathes badly and has aberrations, and the Sony which has significant aberrations.”

Please Jan,can You tell me how WIDE the lens is??
Thgank You-jiri

[Barry Green]

[jiri vrozina] “can You tell me how WIDE the lens is??”
What they’ve announced so far is that the lens is 4.5mm (same width as the DVX).

At IBC, some of the cameras were actually marked with 4.2mm, so it’s possible that it may even be wider than we thought it would be.

[Barry Green]

[Brian SaenzDeViteri] Anyone know if this will be over firewire direct to hard drive, or if it will only be available as an HD-SDI output to converter box to hard drive?

Only through HD-SDI. The only thing you’ll get out of the firewire on the Canon is HDV or DV. If you want uncompressed etc., that’s only available through the HD-SDI port. And it won’t be recorded on “a converter box to a hard drive”, it’d take an array of about 6 to 8 hard disks to handle the 200 megabyte per second data rate.

Of course, the option exists that the converter box could employ a lossless codec (such as LZW or something) that could cut the data rate maybe in half, thus reducing the overall data rate to around 100 megabytes per second, and reducing the attendant RAID requirements to maybe 3 or 4 drives. But either way it isn’t practical or cheap to consider field recording of an HD-SDI data stream anytime soon.

Does it record to tape then playback an output over HD-SDI (like the Sony FX1 and Z1U)?

I don’t know if tape playback also gets output over HD-SDI… I’d assume it does.

Does it record to tape only or is this hard drive and/or solid state based at all, even if it’s over firewire to an external hard drive?

The camera only records on HDV tape. It is probably possible to attach an external hard disk recorder to firewire, such as an HDV-enabled FireStore FS-4. It will only allow recording of HDV in that mode, but at least that would be an alternative to tape.

but if the camera will record DVCPRO HD and/or HDCAM directly to any old external hard drive without a Firestore style device, then it is something at least worth looking at and exploring.”

That’s a complete impossibility. If you want to record DVCPRO-HD or HDCAM, you’d have to hook the camera up through HD-SDI to a $25,000 DVCPRO-HD deck or a $42,000 HDCAM deck. It will not have any capability to record to “any old external hard drive”. Maybe someday someone will develop such a product, but not likely anytime soon.

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Thank You Barry.