Mariusz Cichon
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I am almost sure you can’t buy them cheaper there. I know many people that were travelling to Europe and even Japan and still buying tapes in US. DVCPRO HD format is much better known and popular in US than in Europe where Sony F900 is much more popular HD format.
Where in Baltics are you shooting?Mariusz
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I will add to the list of new H series camera options. This is what I remember being told by Panasonic:
– 12bit insead of 10bit DSP (cleaner signal)
– different optical block to reduce noise in blue channel
– automatic pixel compensation on Black Balance
– clean output from HDSDI on the rear of the camera
– color option for viewfinder output
– white shading for lenses can be saved on SD memory card
– there is also DARK COMPRESSION MODE inside the menu for compressing noise below 10%IRE (very subtle)Scene files from Varicam F are not compatible with H and vice versa. Panasonic provided PC only software to convert files. AbelCine Tech has free software that does the same and litlle more for mac.
Mariusz
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Take a look at Dell’s PowerVault 110T LTO-3 specs on their website. It has transfer rate of 80MB/s with capability to record 288GB/h. LTO Ultrium 400GB tapes are cheap but tape recorder costs more. It is good investment though since you can use it to backup your all computer periodically. I see it as great solution for small production companies.
Also, you may take your hard drive to place where they can back it up for you LTO tape and if your hard drive fails in years just go to that place again and recover. I am sure in couple of years Blu-Ray or something else will affordable solution that works very well.Mariusz
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Another proven method of backing up data is LTO tape drives like Quantum and Dell is providing. They worked well in financial institutions and tape last many years. Good thing about that solution is that tape is 400GB uncompressed and drive is still much cheaper than VTR recorder.
In my opinion this is best solution now before Blu-Ray or another high capacity optical media is proven.
Just my cents,Mariusz