Something big for XDCAM July 26?

[Andrew Stone]

Sounds like something significant but there are so many things that could drop from successors to the EX line, to a 4K recorder to the FS700, to a professional EVF purpose built for the F3.

Anyone’s guess.

-Andrew

[Michael Johnston]

Rumors are (via a Sony insider) it’s a 3 chip version of the PMW-100 (single chip) but that’s just a rumor and that person has been wrong before so we’ll have to wait and see.

[Don Greening]

I don’t think that Sony would have allocated that much space on their web page just to announced a 3 chip version of their entry level XDCAM camera. “Something Big is Coming” has to mean much more than that.

– Don

Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
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[Michael Palmer]

I have heard a few rumors about the F3 and they are just rumors. 3 days we will know……

Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Don Greening]

It’s called the XDCAM-PMW200 and it looks like a direct replacement for the EX1R. MPEG422HD 50Mbit recording on UDF formatted SxS cards. Still records 35 Mbit XDCAM EX format if you want, but the cards have to be formatted in FAT32.
https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/micro-xdcam/resource.latest.bbsccms-assets-micro-xdcam-latest-XDCAMPMW200.shtml

– Don

Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com

[Clint Fleckenstein]

Now THAT is what I’ve been waiting for. Now if I can just get the budget for a couple…

Cf

[Ron Pestes]

I wish they would have dropped the SXS card and gone with cheaper more reliable SDHC cards. My EX-3 is limited by how many SXS cards I can afford.

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[Michael Palmer]

Sony could have made the encoder record at even higher bit rate levels, it uses the same Mpeg-2 encoder in everything from consumer handy cams to the most expensive XD Cam units. I’m disappointed this didn’t come out much sooner and on units like the F3, FS100 and FS700. I’m sure we’ll see a replacement for the EX3 now. I’m a big believer in redundant recording and I like using my Nano Flash as my main recording source and the native files from the camera as my backup.

Good Luck
Michael Palmer

[Michael Johnston]

First, I can’t believe people are already complaining about what this camera doesn’t have. Second, no current SDHC card on the market can handle writing at 50Mbs. The top level card can only capture at 45Mbs. Put in a SDHC card in this camera using an SxS adapter and it’s going to fail. Sony had no choice. It’s either SxS or CompactFlash which is just as expensive. This is clearly the top non-shoulder mount camera available today and some of you need to stop complaining and cut Sony some slack. If you can’t afford SxS cards you likely can’t afford this camera anyway.

[Bala Chandran]

SDHC cards capture at 90 Mbps now. So Sony could have made use of that. And does it use USB3 or still USB2?