Jeff Regan
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The HPX170 should have a 5 year warranty. It would be good to find out from Panasonic if it’s transferable. Even if it isn’t, the camera has very few moving parts. I wouldn’t be concerned about a solid state record camera with 1000 hours.
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HDX900’s are being sold regularly. I sold mine a year ago, after owning it only 18 months, for $14K w/o lens. I wish I had bought an HPX2000 instead of a 900. I now have a 2700 and it’s a bigger step above the 900 than I had expected. Why would your production company not want to have ready to edit files on drives with a better codec vs. realtime ingest of DVCPRO HD tape? Are you shooting in a remote location?
The best bang for the buck in 2/3″ CCD cameras is a used HPX2000 w/AVC-Intra board, IMO.
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My first choice would be an AJA Ki Pro ProRes deck, but I don’t know what your budget is. They can be rented for a couple of hundred dollars a day.
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Not lost any fuses or tripped a breaker in nine months in a rental environment. It’s quite normal for an on-board monitor to power off of the D-Tap connector on the battery bracket as well, but this shouldn’t add any additional load to the camera’s internal power supply.
Has this happened using batteries? If a battery is fresh off a charger, it’s not uncommon for voltage to be 17 volts +. Maybe that’s just high enough to blow an internal fuse?
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Noah,
I’m not sure this is a software issue. It could be a hardware issue due to processor/power consumption/heat limitations, similar to the camera not being able to shoot any frame rates over 1080/30p.
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While P2 cards have plenty of throughput to handle the data rate needed for 4:4:4, the 3700 processor would not be up to the task, according to what we were told at Varicamp last fall.
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If you can stretch to $2000-2500, my two favorites are the Flanders Scientific 7″ and TV Logic 7″. They look amazing, have fantastic scopes, vector and waveform(Flanders adds GBR parade, columns, audio, histogram, false color), markers for many aspect ratios in any color, red peaking, pixel to pixel, embedded audio from HD SDI, embedded TC from HD SDI. DVI, dual HD SDI, composite, component inputs. HD SDI loops, unlike the Panasonic BT-LH80. These might be too much monitor for an HVX200, but at least they’ll be ready for the next camera upgrade.
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Dan, yes, PCD35 is super fast with a tower and PCIe card slot. The best part about the PCD2 is I can throw away my Duel Adapter! I still use a G4 as well if the shoot is DVCPRO HD, but not for AVC-Intra 100.
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Dan’s right, I got mine last Friday from Spec-Comm. I did a test today comparing it to our PCD20 5-card P2 reader. The PCD2 transfer times were the same with its two USB cables vs. FW800 with the PCD20.
I got transfer times with a full 32Gb P2 card of 25 minutes using a MacBook Pro with Shotput Pro 2.7.1 and G-Tech Mini HDD.Jeff Regan
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Putting aside the advantages of file based recording onto memory cards vs. tape, the advantages of a 2700 vs. original Varicam 27H are:
10-bit, full sample, Native, progressive codec.
Film-Rec with 600% dynamic latitude for 11-stops.
DRS 1, 2, 3.
Better processing, better signal to noise ratio.
Three HD SDI outputs.
CAC for newer HD lenses.
Prerecord, loop record modes.
5 year warranty due to few moving parts.
Proxy record option.
Wireless mic. slot.
Jeff Regan
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