[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Blue only makes up about 11 percent of the signal, so the rest of the camera is not being called into play. A little gain may have helped, or perhaps a 1/24th shutter speed, to just let a little more light in. I think Noah hit it.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

[Blub] “The imagination part came when I asked myself, why cant we have a P2 size card slip into the P2 slot on the HVX on the back of the card a cable which goes directly to another P2 size card which slips into this portable drive? The drive copies P2 cards at 1 gig per second, the speed of 1080p in real time, why cant it just record 1080p in real-time through the high speed P2 connections on the camera? “

Hi,

It does not copy at 1 gig per second, it is one gig per minute and that is the same time as HD in real time. And why not just do a 1394 recording to a much larger drive, like a firestore device. They will cost about the same. Then you don’t have this thing sticking out the back into your face. Or when you take a small breater, why not shove the P2 off the card to a standard off the shelf USB hard drive.

[Blub] “Panasonic has the answer in hand, unfortunately they are blinded by the desire of stopping Sony from making so much money from tape stock sales and from selling themselves as data acquisition visionaries, what about my vision? “

We could care less about Sony tape sales, we do a tidy sum in tape sales all on our own. And as far as selling ourselves as visionaries, those are your words, not ours. Perhaps I don’t understand how your vision would be advantageous over that which is already possible.
Care to give a greater example?

Best regards,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Toke,

I wold not bet on that time line. Am already working with 3rd party guys on stuff that should be ready at the same time or close.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Now Peter,

Be nice to Steve, he was only pulling your leg. 😉 What you didn’t hear what his Monty Python sense of British humor.

Anyhow there was a cool little machine that was in a glass case and it was a fishing expedition. It did virtually everything you say plus a monitor. They were really undesided on a price but input is welcome.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Carlos,

Thank you for taking the time for writing out the comments of your crew. I am forwarding them to the factory to see if any can be implemented. There are some areas that are still a little flexible, but not sure if those are tied to areas that are not, so I put it in the hopper.

Again, thanks for the time.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

So what does that equate to in 35mm still cameras?

Best,

Jan

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

toke lahti:It clearly shows that even a changeable cheapo sd lens is better than fixed one.

Since it was being used on a Betacam, I would bet that it cost more that the SD lens that comes with the JVC.

>I’m not saying that fx1’s zeiss and hvx’s leica will be identical but they will surely be in the same ballpark,

The Zeiss lens has a lot of chromatic aberrations. This is noticable from the minute you turn it on. We are aiming for better.

>I’d rather say that there is no clear line between sd and hd lenses that when lens becomes “HD”.

Here you would be really wrong. There is a dividing line. Go talk to the folks at Fujinon and at Canon.

>So getting real resolution of 1920×1080 with 1/3″ camera is really utopistic.

This is true even in the more expensive gear.

>I have to settle down with hvx-200.
And for what I have read here, it should have best fixed lens in the world so I think I will be quite happy with it.

That is the way I am approahing it.

Best regards,

Jan

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Peter DeCrescenzo:Or, were you only referring to removable HD lens costing at least $10K? If so, how does a >$10K get shoehorned into a <$7K camera? It can be a lot better than you think it can, because the quality goes into the glass. Best, Jan

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi Folks,

I have been watching this little thread on my Blackberry all day, and found myself rolling my eyes, hitting my forehead and even giggling at times, as I have not been in my office today and could not respond sooner. (Noah, you have a sense of humor I have never seen before.) If this camera was going to have interchangeable lenses, it would have been shown that way at NAB. It is not like we would say, “Jeez, we didn’t think about it that way” and change our minds. No, folks, we are not willing to take it back to the drawing board and postpone delivery for 6 months, so that we can, at best, put on SD lenses. Frankly, this was an engineering decision.

As Graeme has tried to point out HD lenses do have certain specs related to them, MTF being just one of them. The lenses that are going on the JVC camera are not true HD lenses. You can expect certain aberrations from them, green to one side and magenta to the other, on the extremes. You can see it even on the Varicam when you put an SD lens on it.

So this camera is a price perfomer. If we were to delay the shipping in favor of an interchageable lensing arrangement, people would buy this camera and then, because they have a budget, they would buy the less expensive lens or the lens they thought looked good, so when the camera has a sub par performance; which would be blaimed? The Camera or the guy that was buying on the cheap or thought he was buying a real HD lens? That was a rhetorical question; I know the answer; the camera. We are not willing to take that hit.

Reality Check: There are no HD lenses under $10,000, and the one at $10,000 is not the best.

Point is, by putting on a lens like the one, for which, we are contracting with Leica, we have a better quality control over what comes out in the recording on each and every camera. This is because it is carefully mated to the rest of the system; the optics, the prism, the filters, the CCDs, even the material that bonds the CCDs to the prism and we still have to meet the price point.

So folks, can you just give it break? Should they really bring out HD lenses that would be affordable for this size camera, perhaps that would mean there is another camera in the making. But not today, not with what is available.

I hope this helps,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi Peter,

My email address is in my profile and yes I work in our Headquarters in NJ. Phone calls are expensive and frankly I get too many of those anyhow, which is why I do not list that. Just send me an email. But now that I have a hint as to where you are, let me see what I can do, but please send me an email with your contact info in it and I will send it along to my guy in the SF area.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems