[Janet Turner]

Peter –

Please accept my condolences as well.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

Edward –

Thank you for providing this great service.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

Andy –

I used the interval timer the very first day I got my DVX100A. Over the course of 3 weeks, I had the camera set up in my bedroom and shot 1.5 seconds of video every 10 minutes as my pond was being built. I then created a video entitled “How to Build a Pond in 5 Minutes”. I love this feature and hate to see it go. It would be one reason I would not consider going from my Panasonic DVX100A to the B version. While on the subject of improvements, I would still like to see the camera redesigned so one could have the battery in place and still be able to plug into AC – like Sony does with their cameras. That way, one could shoot using AC then quickly unplug the camera and go battery. This was one of the hardest things for me to adjust to when I moved from my Sony Digital 8. The camera though is awesome as you can see from some of the videos produced on the DVXuser.com forum.

Have a great day.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

Leo –

Great information! I saved it offline to review it in more detail. Though a complete newby at lighting and owning only a Rifa 55 light, I am very impressed with how much time you took to give us these tips. Now if I could only find someplace that sold 300w fresnels cheap!

Have a great day.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

I, too, have had no problem capturing to USB2 7200 rpm drives. One of my drives is a 40 gig tiny 5400 rpm drive. Works great.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

Maybe this thread will help.

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/dev_read_post.cgi?forumid=24&postid=856934

Have a great day.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

Tim –

If you need a quick answer, you might look at an earlier post on this forum about a week ago. If you do a search on this forum for the term “24p and 60i”, you will find an answer Noah gave to this question. For what it is worth, I just thought I would pass the link on.

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[Janet Turner]

Peabody –

I have both Spicemaster and Ultimate S. As Peter said, they are two totally different products. Spicemaster is awesome for transistions and special effects. In my opinion, Ultimate S is a tool to shorten your editing time. Both are of great value to me.

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[Janet Turner]

Noah –

I would say if one is use to cameras where one makes a choice between AC and battery they would, of course, have no problem with the camera. In my case, I did not have to make that choice with my Digital 8 so I was use to having that ability in my camcorder. I thought long and hard before making my post on the subject because I did not want to have people think I was trying to stir up trouble. I merely wanted to communicate to Panasonic my thoughts on improving the camera to both make it even more cool and stimulate more sales.

I am glad to hear that insiders from Panasonic read these posts. I would like to thank you for letting me use this forum to provide them with my input.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

Noah –

As always, I appreciate the time you take to respond to my postings. I certainly agree with you that this is a great camera. I am enjoying exploring its capabilities and for the money, it is awesome.

That said, my point was I see areas of improvement that I personally feel would make the camera even more attractive to purchasers. Though I don’t like the speaker situation, I can live with it. Like you said, you can’t please everyone and I understand that. I do feel the powering options should be changed and it was my hope to point this out so Jan could pass on a consumer comment to the right people in Panasonic. With the current design, if I am operating on AC power and shooting an event, if I lose power I am down until I can put the battery in place. Is there a way around this? Sure, in my case I take along a UPS and plug my camera into that but it is another piece of equipment to lug along and keep track of. Why not allow the camera to have a battery in place and be hooked up to external power at the same time. It becomes a true run and gun camera at that point and will be attractive to a whole new group of purchasers.

Again, Noah, thank you for taking the time to respond. I was hoping to hear from Jan as well.

Grasshopper