[Charlie Hohenshilt]

Well Peter I’m going to make another bold assumption, as I did before.

This Camera is not for you.

You have positioned your self in your market very successfully. The clients you have rent the best equipment (Imax film) the best DP’s (A.S.C.) and the largest budgets>100,000,000. And of course, no lowly PA
would make eye contact with you, if they wanted to work 19 hours for 175.00 tomorrow as well.

Congratulations

Now, how do the rest of us deal with the high cost of the P2 cards? Considering we haven’t even seen the camera yet.

[Charlie Hohenshilt]

“Essentially, the external drives will be treated the same way I treat tape today. The advantage is that I have nonlinear and immediate access to that footage at any time.”

The AJ-SPX800 has 5 P2 slots and it’s hot swappable. If, and only if, the AG-HVX200 has more than one slot, and it’s hot swappable as well, then it makes the amount of continuous footage shot limited only to the size of your external hard drive.

You will need more than one P2 card.

And yes, you will need someone to do the swapping while the shooting is taking place. The operator can’t do it, but I do know that ACs are capable of learning new tricks. Don’t have an AC position in the budget?

Pay a bright PA $50 more to do the swapping for you. They have the tech skills. Many of them are building their own computers to play games on.