Dan Brockett
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Hi Jan:
You are correct of course, I should clarify that I am not singling out Panasonic for never having enough of new cameras, all of the hot new cameras are that way. It was the same when I bought a Canon 5D MKII last year, there were none to be found anywhere and I lucked out when Amazon.com received a couple. I bought mine and then they were out of stock again for months.
It was the same with my HVX200 back in 2006 and my DVX100A before that. I would think that there is no way to accurately gauge what the demand will be for a new camera and overestimating demand could be a costly mistake?
Can’t wait to try out the AG-AF100, it sounds like it will be everything that DSLR users have been wishing for.
Dan
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Matt:
You are the classic case of “waiting for what is coming next”. Nobody has seen or shot with the AG-AF100 so this is a case of intense speculation, which may or may not be correct.
The AG-AF100 will be similar to your 5D MKII in that shallow DOF is hard to manage in run and gun and unrehearsed situations. Also, nobody knows what the camera will sell for exactly. Some think around U.S. $6,000.00 but Panasonic has not made an official announcement yet.
The Sony uses SxS cards, they are robust and reliable. The AF-100 uses SDHC cards, not as robust and reliable.
AVCHD vs. XDCAM EX? Tough call, I have not tested, although I have shot both. I think that AVCHD is said to look a little better at it’s highest bit rate.
The other factor is time. Panasonic is known for not having adequate quantities of product on release dates, and all we know is that the AF100 is supposed to release in or before December. IMHO, this means you will actually be able to get your hands on one to buy in, perhaps, February or March of 2011. Does that fit your schedule? If not, this whole discussion is moot.
As far as sensors, the RED One uses a single sensor as do other high end digital cinema cameras so I would not base any decision on number of sensors. The EX1 is a great camera and I am confident that the AF100 will be also. But I could not make a rational informed decision on which to buy over the other until about Spring of 2011. Anything else, unless you can talk to a reviewer or beta tester, is pure speculation. Not a good base to make an informed decision.
Dan
A Producer Who Is Also A DP? Yep, that’s Me.
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I have one, I probably should sell it as I also have the 5D MKII too and use it far more often.
The Letus adapters are great but the light loss makes shooting often ungainly because of the need to use bigger lighting instruments, more wattage and more heat. Plus your once small and light video camera becomes long, heavy and ungainly and I could never get the edge to edge sharpness where I wanted it although I did not spend the extra money for the optimized achromat, which would help.
Dan
A Producer Who Is Also A DP? Yep, that’s Me.
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Letus Extreme. Just bring some AA batteries.
Dan
A Producer Who Is Also A DP? Yep, that’s Me.
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Hi Larry:
It would help if you identified which model camera you are using as the bodies on a professional HPX2700 are made of magnesium versus the plastic body panels on low-end prosumer cameras like the HVX200 and the HMC150.
I would read the manual but you never want to clean any camera with any sort of solvent or acetone-based cleaner. The safe bet is a cloth, slightly dampened with warm water. I have also used Apple Polish, the same stuff that Apple recommends to clean the bodies and screens of computers. Lots of Q-tips, clean warm water. I prefer the Hoodman LCD wipes for the LCD screens, it is the only cleaner that actually cleans LCDs without scratching or hazing.
Salt water, huh? Yikes, I would hate to think where else that salt water could have gone, into seals, sealed compartments, etc. Not good. If you are shooting in conditions with spray and lots of residual water flying around, that camera should be in a diving bag, at least, one of those clear, heavy duty plastic-bag like housings for taking the camera underwater at shallow depths. Salt water will eventually kill any electronics, I am glad that I don’t own your camera. Things may happen down the road that might have been caused by this exposure.
Good luck.
Dan
A Producer Who Is Also A DP? Yep, that’s Me.
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AVID Media Composer edits stereo video natively. FCP can edit stereo video with the addition of Tim Dashwood’s plug-in or Neo 3D. Apple will probably implement stereo editing in the next update, they usually like to be at feature parity, roughly with AVID.
Dan
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Great site Art. Very helpful and good information that is not easy to find elsewhere.
Dan
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I have been the lazy guy too many times with FCP. A great reminder to RTFM and keep on listening to the pro editors like Shane who do this for a living. In the past ten years, I have learned several tricks here and over the LAFCPUG board that have saved me hundreds of hours of “doing it the dumb way” instead of streamlining and doing it the smart way.
Dan
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Here is that chart I was talking about https://www.edibleapple.com/how-important-is-the-iphone-to-apples-bottom-line/
Dan
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https://www.psfk.com/2010/06/youtube-introduces-a-cloud-based-video-editor.html
Of course, this is consumer and fairly primitive, but based upon my interviews with the AVID marketing and technical teams, the development of pro level cloud-based remote editing is further along that you would think. I mean, they acquired an entire company just for their remote editing technology.
The beauty of it is that the actual editing is being done on a server at full res, it is proxy editing you are doing on your laptop halfway across the world, mitigating the need for much larger “pipes” than we have available right now. I think that for a while, it will be a proxy-based world, in a way, going back to the off-line/online model that we just kind of got away from a few years ago.
Dan
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