Lars Wikstrom
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“and it breathes like a fat guy running up a hill.”
LOL!!!
-Lars
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That is good news, thanks for your reply!
-Lars
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I see you point too. I just feel Panny could do a better job by making the cards more flexible in price. Still allow the 4 and 8 gigs and price them the way they should be. $900 to some is nothing and to others it’s a lot.
Also, can other manufactures make P2 cards or does panny have a monopoly on that? If it is a monopoly that would also help explain why the price is fixed like that. When 64’s come out 16 will be gone.
I do appreciate the feedback on this, thanks for taking the time!
-Lars
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Thank you, I do see your point. But I can buy a SD 2 gig card for $20. They should keep the 8 gigs are $450 instead of the base price starting at $900. I still see no reason why they can’t keep 8 gigers around at a lower price. If demand is so high open other factories to pump out the P2 cards.
I see it more as a price fixing then anything else but I do understand where you are coming from, I just don’t agree.
-Lars
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That is why they are hard to find. I find that kind of lame that they discontinue the lower end cards. I am getting the feeling that they want to keep the prices inflated by discontinuing the 8 gig cards and having the 16 be the same price. They should keep 8 gig cards and charge the 4 to 5 hundred for them.
So when 64’s come out they will get rid of the 16’s always keeping the price high.
I like going to matin
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There site is a little hard to navigate. Here is a link to the OS X fire wire version that can do 320 gigs compressed. It only came out in October and lists for $1200 on there site. I am guessing that you can get it cheaper. Tapes I have seen for $65 which is not bad for storing 320 gigs in one shot. I am so tired of doing multi disc back up sessions.
I plan to have a 320 gig partition and when it is full of P2 drive filler footage, back up and erase.
https://www.exabyte.com/company/press/display.cfm?id=4017
-Lars
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There are some after market tripods that are priced well but I don’t know about the performance. Here is one of them
https://www.prompterpeople.com/tripodheavy.htm
I use a manfroto 503 head and single poll legs, forgot the model number of those. That was around $500 and works fine for the camera. But when I add my 35mm adapter and 35mm lenses and HD monitor it over loads it and wobbles on pans.
-Lars
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Exabyte came out with an external firewire version a couple months ago for around $1100. It can hold 320 gigs compressed per $80 tape. It is cheaper the Blu-Ray and will save you more time. I also was thinking of blue-ray but I didn’t want to keep swapping out discs. I felt it better to have a 320 gig partition on a drive and when it fills up just write it to a tape and empty the drive and move on with life.
-Lars
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So, just so I understand, there will be no upgrade path to the AVC for people who own the HVX-200?
-Lars
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Tell me this newer codec will be a firmware update for the HVX-200???
-Lars