David Hudson
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Glad you feel that way Nate. No other camera I know of from the lowest consumer piece to the highest end HD camera has a preset 5600k problem. Only the 500. Most high end camera allow you to change the preset color temps but not the 500 because it was derived from the prosumer 200.
And why would you make a 5000 dollar camera that was less noisy than your 10000 dollar camera? This is not a price performance issue and I really didn’t expect perfection. I knew what the camera was when I bought it. I admit that I didn’t check it out in exteriors but then I’ve never seen a camera that had a problem rendering daylight in all my 40 years of shooting.
If the 500 works for you as is fine, I would not buy it again if I had my druthers.
I want my camera fixed and eventually you will too if you buy one.
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Yes. The preset 5600 is very yellow-green. Panasonic has acknowledged the problem and said they have a fix for it but so far only 1 camera has been fixed.
A real shame.
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Yes I know. I’m the one that posted over there. But I noticed Jan was responding here and not there so here I am.
On the 200A matter I’d like a definitive response from someone at Panasonic. Not that I don’t like or trust Mr. Green but he doesn’t to my knowledge receive a regular paycheck from Panny-san.
To me the problem is the cameras have been out almost a year now and they’re still dragging their feet on fixing it. Right now they’ve fixed 1 camera. They may feel its too expensive to fix every camera. But I feel that this is a warranty issue. The cameras came from the factory with what is by any professional video standard a defect. They need to fix it.
Now!
As an aside I also feel that if the 200A is less noisy than the 500 thats not a good thing either. I could see them orphaning the 500 because it hasn’t sold as well as they would have liked and putting all the development money into matching Sony step for step. IE: 200A, EX-3 fighter etc.
If they give a FF about their clients they’ll take care of their established customer base. Right now I’d have a difficult time recommending or buying another Panasonic product.