FS-10 firestore 100g drive or P-2 card?

[Russell Lasson]

For me, it depends on the situation.

If it is a run and gun shoot, it’s nice to have enough P2 cards for the day and just change them out as needed. I don’t like the Firestore as much because it’s bulky and connects over a little firewire cable that can get bumped around.

If it is mostly interviews, the Firestore rocks because of how long you can record. But if you’re not moving much, it’s not that hard to switch out P2 cards and download them to a laptop either.

So it depends; people are using both methods.

-Russ

[Christopher Wright]

This question gets asked a lot. Do a search here in this forum and you will see more than enough posts on this subject.

[Matt Gerard]

I have done many shoots with the firestores, they always seem to work, but are really flaky. I had 2 cam shoot, and the displays on both units went out, could only get them back by restarting them. then another firestore the display reversed on me!!!! Talk about confusing. But, they always seemed to record what they were supposed to.

I have also done a few shoots on P2, and they were flawless in operation.

Firestores- Lenghtof recording +, reliability ?, quicktime playback +, copy time to computer slow), bulky for run&gun

P2 – reliable, little short on recording time, no playback until into FCP (unless you use the camera), copy time to laptop fast, easy to carry extra cards.

I actually don’t like having all my material on one physical drive.

[Digitalgl]

Thanks guys for the input!

Gene

GL