Barry Green
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One thing to consider is if the internal battery in your camera is discharged. Remove the external battery and plug it into the AC power supply and leave it there for at least four hours; that should recharge the internal battery. Sometimes timecode weirdness when powering off the cam can be caused by a run-down internal battery.
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A friend of mine just took delivery of a BT-LH1700 last week. They’re definitely available.
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Every camera does this. The DVX lens is rated at 1.6 on the wide end, and 2.8 on the tele. If you had set 2.8 as your iris, it would have been consistent exposure from the wide to the tele. But by choosing “open”, you had a circumstance where the widest possible iris at tele is smaller than the widest possible at wide-angle.
But they all do this. The Canon goes from 1.6 at the wide to 3.5 at the tele, the Sony Z1 is 1.6 to 2.8… the JVC HD100 isn’t marked for it, it claims 1.4 all the way through, but in actuality it loses about a stop as well.
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[David Battistella] “This is the slippery slope that Panasonic has gone on with this release. I can only hope that the HVX draws more attention to the Varicam (which I happen to think is a great camera) but I would hate to see it go the other way.
It should go the “other way”. Why hold back today’s technology, or tomorrow’s technology, just because yesterday’s is no longer as competitive? The HVX pushes things forward. The next gen of the VariCam will do the same. I fully expect there to be a VariCam II before too long, and I fully expect that it will do 1080p as well as 720p, and that it will be P2-based. And I fully expect that it will offer even more codec choices. At NAB last year Panasonic showed a brief tease of the “big brother” to the HVX, a 2/3″ camera with P2 slots and an “HD-D5” label on the side. P2 lets them do things like that; it could easily offer DV, DVCPRO25, DVCPRO50, DVCPRO-HD/1080, DVCPRO-HD/720, and D5, and H.264 for that matter.
Will that be the VariCam II? Or another, newer, intermediate-priced model? Don’t know, but I would expect them to move forward, and with all due respect to the magnificent VariCam, well, if it can’t keep up then it’ll be replaced with something else that’s world-class and pushes even further forward.
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[Chris Baldwin] “One concept would be to bring a laptop and an external Firewire drive and transfer the footage as soon as we’re done shooting during wrap… But the question is how long would that take and is there any way of doing this without having a laptop?”
I asked spec-comm to design that functionality into the CinePorter. If it had the ability to dump its contents onto an external drive, you could set it about its business while you wrap the rest of the gear, etc. As for the amount of time it takes, that depends on the speed of the internal drive and the speed of the receiving drive. Probably still in the ballpark of 1gb per minute. In file transfer situations like that, the bottleneck is the drive speed, and a single 2.5″ drive can only operate so fast.Another option I asked them for was user-interchangeable hard disks. If you could just eject the hard disk from the cineporter, slap it in a $9 external USB enclosure and hand it over to the client, that would be a delightful solution. But it’s not gonna happen. User-swappable hard disks are not going to be part of either the FS-100 or CinePorter designs.
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[David Battistella] “Can the files from the firestore be read on the LCD like as is the case with the P2?”
My understanding on that one is that yes, the FireStore will appear to the HVX as if it’s one great big P2 card, with the same thumbnail/preview capability as the card has.
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[Chris Baldwin] ” wonder though if its as endorsed by Panasonic though.
Probably not. Panasonic is developing the FS-100 in partnership with Focus. I believe Spec-Comm is approaching the CinePorter as a fully independent development.
3rd party suppliers like these guys and firestore have to go through Panny to get the specs and so on in order to make these things. Right?
Not necessarily. It’s probably easier to do it that way, and that’s the way Focus has gone — Panasonic lists them as one of their “P2 Partners”, which appears to be a licensing program. Spec-Comm is not listed there. So I would guess that Spec-Comm is reverse-engineering the P2 capabilities and independently developing it without a specific licensing relationship with Panasonic. However, it is of note that Spec-Comm is an authorized reseller and an authorized repair facility for Panasonic, so they certainly know their way around Panasonic gear.Its not like anyone can make these P2 compliant devices and not have them be equall or greater than the reliability of an actuall Panasonic product?
Reverse engineering would probably allow anyone to make anything of any reliability quotient. But if they want to wear the official Panasonic-endorsed label, then yes they’d have to comply to whatever standards Panasonic sets.But when is Firestore actually moving their product?
I talked to them at DV Expo, and they seem incredibly confident that they will meet their delivery date. And they were demoing a partially-working prototype already back then, and that was three weeks ago…can you give me a link to the rest of the info on this product?”
https://www.spec-comm.com/cineporter.php
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Lots of talk on it elsewhere. At first glance it offers a few interesting bonuses over the firestore: the ability to take two drives, for up to 240gb of storage vs. 100 for the FS-100. And it uses the same battery as the camera, so you can easily swap batteries, something I don’t think is even possible with the FS-100.
Then again, I’ve seen a partly-working FS-100 already, whereas I don’t think the CinePorter has been shown in working form yet, has it? So the FS-100 has one big advantage in that it’s a known name with a known product on its fifth generation (FS-1, FS-2, FS-3, FS-4, FS-100). But the CinePorter could do some things the FS doesn’t. So… lots of positive buzz, tempered with “let’s actually see it first”.
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It’s not out yet. Shipments are due to begin in just over one week from now.
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Well, maybe, but that’s more than canceled out by the bigger/thirstier chips and the internal 60p processing. If you’re comparing against an HD100, yes the batteries last forever — about 3.5 hours. If you’re comparing against a DVX, no the batteries don’t last as long.
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