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Update to Varicam?
Does anyone know if/when there will be an update to the Varicam? I’m looking into the purchase of a couple of them, but don’t want to buy something that is soon to be replaced.
Jason Wietholter
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Jason,
I think it safe to say that the Varicam will be around for a while yet!
The noise that Panasonic is making about a replacement revolves around a P2 version, which will use smart card storage instead of tape. This will benefit mostly news users who will be able to edit the material faster because they can eliminate digitizing time, they’ll merely transfer files at faster than real time. For others, including commercials, thaetrical, documentary and industrial users, I think the tape based master makes a lot of sense and will continue to do so, as even with the P2 storage, because of its expense, these users might just continue to archive their master materials on tape. For this reason, I think that even when a P2 version of the Varicam does come to market, they may still sell the current version as well. JMHO.
JS
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It may interest everyone to know that Panasonic’s new 200 camera which records “HD” to P2 will have a capacity of 8 minutes of “HD” on each card. John is correct, as always, tape will be around for a long time to come.
Steve W
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[john sharaf] “JMHO”
Finally I understand what you mean by JMHO…Tell me if I
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Buy a bunch of em. You’ll need em.
sw
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I was actually hoping that there would be an update to the imagers on the Varicam soon. If not, Panasonic’s big dog camera will have CCD’s with a lower native resolution than their $6,000.00 “handycam”!
TV is called a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well done (He..he…)
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