Peter Steinman
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Obviously as retail with rebate would be $51,900 for body alone. He’s getting something like another $17,000 off on top of that if he gets the body, plate, viefinder, and mic kit for $40k. I’d call those more like god-like dealing powers.
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I attended the last Varicamp and Panasonic told us the Varicam 2 is three years away still. Now changes in the market could accelerate that I’d imagine but, camera development takes time and they don’t want to anger owners. I belive the P2 camera coming will be more a hdx-900 with P2 cards rather then a Varicam. To get full color controls, totally variable frame rates, and shutter in degrees you will probably have to go Varicam for awhile.
Not that they couldn’t just flip a switch and make all the 900’s have that but, its about protecting Varicam owners a bit. If somebody releases a new camera that offers all this in the 900’s price point I bet we’ll see a Varicam 2 a lot faster.
I think John’s price might be off a bit. I’m hearing about $42,000 for just the body with the rebate at the best discount you can get from a dealer. You know dealers know about this rebate too and will be softer on the discount as well . Viewfinder is $3,000, mic is close to $1,000, and plate is close to $500 all at discouted prices. Yes its cheap but, its not going to be $40,000 it’s going to be about $45,000 if you’re lucky and more likely about $48,000 for that package.
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It is already known the ccd’s are exactly the same between the two. Panasonic sales guys do a wink wink nudge nudge thing about the prism block. I sort of doubt it would be worth it to develop a seperate optical block to save money. I’d guess it’s either a Varicam block or its a sdx block if the two are even different.
I was looking at the specs for the 900 and it mentioned “Optical System: F1.4 Prism System” Try as I might I can find a optical system spec for the varicam. Anyone know ?
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With almost the exact same setup I have no trouble. I could see flaky ram causing what your seeing. Have you tried more then one tape ? What capture settings are you using and what tape are you trying to capture from ? How was it shot ?
I’ve also been told, more then once, that removing the firewire cable from the 1200 deck when powered on may damage the firewire board. Funny you can do this without worry on a $100 digital camera but, do it with a $3,000 Panasonic card and you’re hosed. I’ll never understand this side of Panasonic but, thats a whole different post.
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Be easier just to throw a pad on the mic cable. Any pro audio or probably even guitar center will have em.
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I ordered mine from http://www.fletch.com long ago. They still list them if you search Goodman on their site.
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That’s one of the things that makes me think this issue is not going to be addressed. The people from Panasonic that post here from time to time have ignored every post that has mentioned the dark compression setting issue. There have been a few too.
Emails to them about this seem to never get any response. Personally I think Panasonic is doing everything in its power to just avoid this and hope it goes away till the Varicam 2 comes out at which point they will say, “Sorry, Varicam 1 firmware is no longer being updated”.
I’m pretty much ready to say at this point that it will never be fixed, we will never see another firmware update for the F model, and F model owners have been EOL’d already and don’t even know it.
Again, big fan of the camera just not of the support model.
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If you ever hear back I will be surprised. This seems to be an issue nobody at Panasonic will discuss. Probably because it would require lots of free updates they don’t want to do. If you add features you can charge but, repairing a broken feature people already payed for makes it harder.
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Never mind. I just read the page on your web site “Points regarding the F900 vs Varicam.”
This isn’t an article you’re not a varicam fan by any stretch. Should have known by the don’t be proud garbage
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So are you saying you’re trying to prove that Varicam displays color fringing on the left side at anything below 9mm or just all HD cameras do ?