[Carlo Zoratti]

Hi Ty, i’ve read more or less all the post about lavalier mics you have written. Just one question: what makes you prefer sennheiser over something cheaper like Samson?
I’m starting a small production of documentary series on the web and about to buy a second mic (we now have Sennheiser EW112 G2- we have used it with joy for two years)
Now we need to upgrade to an extra mic but not quite have the budget for another wireless set.
So why not samson? What’s the difference I’m going to hear, or the problem I’m going to deal with?

Thank you very much

carlo

[Carlo Zoratti]

Thanks Rafael for the response and Esky to bring this up. I found this post very useful myself.

Carlo

[Carlo Zoratti]

hi guys, it seems you know a lot about avchd. And i’m just going really disapponted with my brand new panasonic HDC-HS100.
So i need a bit of your knowledge to see if i rally have to sell it as soon as i can!
My problems are:
Takes for ever (about three times the lenght of the footage) to import it
and the quality looks really shitty.
give a look to this still from a video i just shooted
https://www.vilma.it/downloads/hdc-hs100.png
shutter 1/25
iris 2.0
maximum quality HA1920

Do you have any idea why is doing so?
and what about time importing? no other ways to work faster on it?

Thanks

carlo

[Carlo Zoratti]

Hei Alex! Thank you very much for your answer. I’m actually using HDD recording so i need to grab from the camera. So i started grabbing the footage trough iMovie 8 which allows to Import it. But is just taking an insane amount of time. It takes almost 3 times the length of the file so to grab 1 hour footage i need 3 hours. Is it the same with final cut? I haven’t tried yet since i don’t have FC 6.
May it be that the conversion from AVCHD to apple intermediate codec produces grainy images????

Thank you

carlo

[Carlo Zoratti]

Hi guys,
i just bought an HDC-HS100
it’s a great camera, but it has some lacks:
– battery power lasts for no more then 2h 30min with the vbg260 (which is still really expensive 170 euro from panasonic in italy)
– it doesn’t have fire wire connection – so you can’t get streaming video straight into computer
– it seems there is no way to connect it to macintosh computers to grab the footage (you can with still images but not with video since the software panasonic provides doesn’t work on mac) – i’m right Alex? how did you connect it?
Aside what i mention above i completely agree with alex and i can tell you the manual ring works great, smooth and solid so you have a proper control of whatever you are controling (’cause i can controll ether focus / zoom / shutter speed/ Iris)

So i’m happy with it. Maybe just too new!

carlo

PS: alex if you know how to get mac connection, please some help is needed here 😀