Mark Shepherd
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I tested the 370 at NAB and found the low light performance was much better than the 300, and that you could actually use the gain up to at least 9db with great picture quality. The 300 camera was very noisy even with 0db outdoors. There was a lot of noise in the shadows and operators were advised to shoot at -3db ever outdoors which is unheard of. The 370, with its new chipset seems to be a great improvement.
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I checked out the camera yesterday at NAB and was impressed with the picture. Unlike the HPX-300, the camera can be used with the gain up. I shot into the dark shadows at NAB with the 370, and the picture was good in low light with its high sensitivity, and I could boast the gain up to 6DB and see little noise. I hope people buy this low price shoulder mount camera and maybe it will become a work horse in the industry for documentaries and other niches. The real mojo at NAB was with the DSLR cameras, their lenses and their large sensor high ISO’s. Saw a demo of a film “NOCTURNAL” shot with a 5D at 6500 ISO using NO LIGHTS, shooting the gritty downtown LA streets at night. Very nice.
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Wow a free mini cooper each day! Thats awesome
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Check out the new “foursquare” app for NAB. It will track where you are on the floor, guide you to some lame booth 2 1/2 miles at the far end of the South hall, and give a email to your WIfe telling her what bars and strip clubs you went to, how much you drank and how much you spent, than the names and facebook page of the skanks you had a lap dance with. Try it!!
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I looked at one of the SOny PDW350 cameraa today at the LA HD Expo and played around with it for a half hour or so. Would I buy it? Maybe if ABC Network news would approve it. Right now they approve of the 2/3inch XDCAM. I am looking for a affordable 2/3 inch camera, but one with CCD instead of CMOS chips with full HD res for under $20K. Dream on. The PMW looks might become popular and take off. I hope so. The last affordable SONY 2/3 inch camera that really took off, and made a lot of people money was the SOny DSR-500 camera. I miss that camera. Maybe I’ll want three years for the SOny PMW-500..
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Don’t pull the trigger on the 300. It is noisy even OUTDOORS in bright sunlight, and Panasonic’s answer to this issue is shoot it @ -3db. I would wait for the new Sony 2/3 inch XDCAM, the PMW-350K that is card based coming out next year. $20K list with lens, but it too is CMOS based.
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Thanks for all the posts regarding my first post on this subject. If Sony would step up to the plate and offer a 30K trade in on their XDCAM PDW F800 for all their old Betacam cameras and Digibeta cameras, I would be the first in line to buy one. Could you just imagine all the cameras that would be sold and used that could be the next viable money making format for a few years. Lets rattle the cage at Sony and get their attention!! I’m ready to buy a new 2/3 inch camera that can make some money.
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[Peter Corbett] “What your guestimate of the numbers of types of formats used at the Jackson thing, Mark?”
Betacam 4/3, Digibeta, PAL, Betacam 16/9 SD, Betacam SX, XDCAM, Sony HDV, DVCPro, DVCPRO HD, P2, DVCAM, DV. No RED cameras were observed. Australian TV was next to me with multi Sony 700 EDCAMs switching a live HD through a “briefcase” size switcher– very cool…
I was feeding a SAT truck a SD 4/3 signal from a Betacam camera, never “rolling tape”
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Can’t you export via the firewire out of the camera and maintain the split audio
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JS:
Thanks for the helpful info. One other question regarding audio. I seem to remember that you couldn’t plug a 48V mic in the back of the camera… there would be distortion. Are there any tricks regarding line levels from a portable mixer? Thanks again.
Mark