[Pat Mcgowan]

Vince, we are waiting for Matrox AXIO drivers for Vista 64 and CS4 but I would be very interested in your review of CS4 vs. CS3.

Cheers,

Pat M.

[Pat Mcgowan]

The cameras will be used together and apart. Mostly apart.

[Pat Mcgowan]

It’s April, now what?

[Pat Mcgowan]

I need to hire a shooter with HVX200 corporate rig (cam, lights, wireless mic) this week and next in the following locations:

Centre Valley, Pennsylvania
Short Hills New Jersey
Austin, Texas
Mississauga, Ontario
San Francisco, California
Marlowe, England

Please respond to

Pat McGowan
inMotion DVS Inc.
Ottawa, Canada
patm@inmotion.ca

[Pat Mcgowan]

Like you said Rennie the HVX200 is going into the 4th production year so it’s due for a replacement.

Like any other piece of gear there are lots of things I like and dislike about this camera. I do not want to buy one and get stung in a pending new product release………

[Pat Mcgowan]

I am 100% with you Peter. I did a shoot in the states recently and hired freelancers with HVX200s in several locations. I was interviewing CEOs and had to do a dance every time we needed to transfer data on location. I had to set up my laptop and a removable HD onsite(actually had 2 HDs for redundancy as I was nervous). Spent time after the shoot confirming data and then had to lug everything through several airport security checkpoints etc. etc. etc. The only way I think I could tolerate this would be to have a dozen or so 256GB P2 cards in my possession and a P2 card reader device that would allow for backups either directly to HD (without a laptop)and to a second P2 card – or both. For what that would cost I could buy another HDX900 with lens!

Having said that, solid state is here to stay so all we can do is pray for a breakthrough in media cost and media types.

[Pat Mcgowan]

Does this problem go way back to the coding of SMPTE TC in early versions of premiere? Time on the wall vs. SMPTE?

[Pat Mcgowan]

Ditto, this camera has been great for us, now thinking of adding a second one.

[Pat Mcgowan]

Wonder when Adobe will issue a patch for PPRO that fixes all the memory issues related to larger projects??

[Pat Mcgowan]

I understand Matt. The problem is that more than one response on this thread has commented on the superior detail in the Sony image compared to the (slightly soft focused) Panny. To my eye, this is even apparent in the test chart grab but I could be wrong.

The Sony EX-1 looks very cool and it’s great to see 1/2″ sesnsors in a camera of this class.

We used the HVX200 on a project last year and liked the images quite a bit. Our main camera is the HDX900 which we love. We are looking for a compact camera to complement it.