Goldenzah
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Yea,
I got taken by FotoConnection in Brooklyn, NY. The camera was from some foreign market (this is called “gray market”) and it was inferior quailty to the US version. It was not the metal housing and the noise from the zoom servo was so loud the mic picked it up significantly. Panasonic knows about this issue (but they wont do a recall) and the gray markets are louder that the US model b/c of the thin plastic housing. I dont thing the workaround of “use a boom mic” is an adequate solution to a known technical/mechanical problem.Also of note, some web sites that rate the brooklyn (crooklyn) companies from customer feedback are owned by individuals in NY (search WHOIS db). Many of the posts are fake and to make a post you need to give discreet information like address and “personal security questions”
BEWARE, all electronics makers make low end versions of their US one’s (Sony, Pana and Canon). They have different versions for different markets. They do very little to educate the consumers about this b/c to them a sale is a sale.
Remember Caveat Emporeum: The Buyer Beware.
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I use a 120 GB CitiDisk HD (Specifically for the HVX200, half the price as firestore but cannot play back footage to camera if there is no P2.) with and without P2’s and my explanation in recording straight to HD is that the feed from the FW is a straight feed (no 24P available – missing meta data). Also in SD, if the LCD is set to squeeze or letterbox, this will get recorded onto the hardrive files with no P2 is present.