HVX-200 Size & Image???

[Jeremy Garchow]

Well, what camera are you coming from? Your ‘argument’ that although this camera is small, it takes great pictures, you are shooting in HD (better quality, same price as whatever you are coming from), HD equipment is more expensive (monitors and ancillary gear) and backups cost dough. Basically, your argument is same price, better quality and smaller package.

If you need the wow factor, check out Panasonic’s other big body offerings as the those are becoming affordable as well. Specifically, the HDX900 and the other big body P2 HD camera of which I can’t remember the name of right now.

Jeremy

[Kerry Brown]

One way to make the small cameras look more like the big ones is to put a matt box on the front of the camera
and a LCD hood on the flip out LCD. Gives it a “professional” look.

KB

[Uli Plank]

A professional DOP would want a good matte box and a french flag anyway, add the FireStore with the camera attachment and it’ll look quite ‘serious’.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Larry Zapotocky]

Thanks for the feedback. I was looking at some of the accessories that were mentioned, but wanted to get some of your views.

Thanks,
larryz22

[Geo Cohn]

Why not just put together some outstanding demo material using the HVX?

[Lars Wikstrom]

You can also add a nice large Lens attachment that allows you to add 35mm lenses. I have one of these and with my 80-200 Nikon Zoom lens the camera is about 2 1/2 feet long.

https://www.redrockmicro.com/products.html

-Lars

[Dean Sensui]

The HVX200 is quite fat for a “compact” camera. As others mentioned, adding accessories such as matte boxes, etc, will increase its size. For me I always work with a shoulder brace as the camera’s rather short. The shoulder brace makes it a lot steadier.

For our own company, we were requested by our governor to shoot one of her standups after we did a PSA with her recently. The size of the camera didn’t discourage her staff from hiring us. But what made a really big difference is how we worked with them.

Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii

[Uli Plank]

Have a look at this to see how ‘pro’ a fully rigged HVX can be:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/tv_pilot_hvx_200_brockett.html

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Larry Zapotocky]

Uli,

Thanks for the link! I read the entire article and it was very informative along with the pics. The HVX200 is the camera that I will suggest to “the powers that be” in my upcoming presentation.

Thanks,

larryz22