Rennie Klymyk
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Ben, you are in a position to avoid what many others have evolved into. Working out of a house in a residential area. These days more and more communities realize the need for Live/Work housing and these areas have much lower taxes than commercial property. If you have a down payment it’s time to start looking for a house in a live/work zoned district or you may find something in a commercial area. Chances are your apartment rent will almost cover your mortgage payments and you can sit and watch your real estate investment climb. A house on land is nice rather than a condo because you can build an addition or garage at some point and you can make more noise! It also has better investment potential and less politics with strata councils etc. Conversely, there is less noise from your neighbors. A house is more likely to have parking space too, something your clients will love. Try to find something near your clients with good visibility and access.
I recall a seminar I attended where the near retirement aged presenter unveiled his secrets to success garnered from his years in business. At the end of the presentation one person asked “if you had it all to do over again, is there anything you would do differently?” He thought a moment and replied “yes, I liked it better when it was just myself, just one person.”
As soon as you hire one person you get a huge pile of paperwork and training to do.
When you achieve a level as your last situation you can hire a bookkeeper or accountant to deal with this workload.
When you get 10 times bigger than that you buy an office condo in Bermuda and just show up at work once in a while.The worst downside of a live/work setting is people come by at 9:30 PM Monday night or on Sunday wanting an update, estimate or 2nd copy etc. etc. This is where a separate business phone and a garage (to hide your car in) come in handy.
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This reminds me of a similar controversy we had here in Canada on the Queen Charlotte Islands. It seems some of the local natives opened a coffee shop and called it HaidaBucks. Queen Charlotte Islands has been inhabited by the Haida’s since the beginning of time and since all the partners were Bucks (guys) they derived the name HaidaBucks. They had years previously used the name for a basket ball team. All was well until Star Bucks got wind of it and a big legal battle ensued. It looks like in the mists of a huge public outcrying StarBucks has backed down. Starbucks suffered boycotts and a ton of bad PR while HaidaBucks gained a ton of advertising.
See more
https://www.lanebaldwin.com/hbc/news.htm
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About 3 weeks ago the cow news droid posted a bulletin that fuji will begin making and selling P2. Also the sony version of P2 is out and seems to be $100.00 cheaper but they don’t have 32GB yet. Between the Sony camp competition and the new fuji P2 cards we should start seeing better prices I hope.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/105/858649
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I see your point as well. (I always buy last year’s best computer) P2 cards are already in production so why not just keep the machinery rolling. 8GB cards are still fetching more than $600.00 on ebay.
Two 16Gb cards = $1800 so you save $150.00 buying the bigger single 32Gb card.
Let’s assume this $150.00 difference is for the actual cassette that holds the memory inside and the assembly of the memory inside the card. (you get 2 cards with the same amount of memory using 16GB and only one when buying the 32GB cards.)List on 32GB cards is $1650.00 ($150.00 – Physical P2 Card or cassette) ($1500.00 – actual memory)
List on 16GB cards is $900.00 ($150.00 – Physical P2 Card or cassette) ($750.00 – actual memory)If that is close to how manufacturing costs go, they would still charge $575.00 for 8GB cards and you would pay $2300.00 to get 32GB of memory on four 8GB cards.
It could be from a manufacturer’s position it is cheaper to offer bigger (fuller) cards for a given amount of storage than to continue filling up the P2 cassette only 1/2 full (16GB) or 1/4 full (8GB) with small amounts of memory. This is not price fixing, it’s economics and it is simply wiser to purchase larger cards until you have enough memory for your needs.
The digital still camera analogy I used earlier isn’t perfect. Jpeg, tiff, gif etc. compression technologies have stabilized for still image applications whereas new video compression formats are still emerging with innovative technologies.
Still photographers are able to acquire larger less compressed images on the larger cards while video people are still working on the length of time we can record with out having to stop for offloading. New compression formats and bigger cards are allowing us to shoot in 1080/60i, 1080/30p and other less solid state friendly formats for longer periods of time.
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I see your point as well. They are already in production so why not just keep the machinery rolling. 8GB cards are still fetching more than $600.00 on ebay.
Two 16Gb cards = $1800 so you save $150.00 buying the bigger single 32Gb card.
Let’s assume this $150.00 difference is for the actual cassette that holds the memory inside and the assembly of the memory inside the card. (you get 2 cards with the same amount of memory using 16GB and only one when buying the 32GB cards.)List on 32GB cards is $1650.00 ($150.00 – Physical P2 Card or cassette) ($1500.00 – actual memory)
List on 16GB cards is $900.00 ($150.00 – Physical P2 Card or cassette) ($1500.00 – actual memory)If that is close to how manufacturing costs go, they would still charge $575.00 for 8GB cards and you would pay $2300.00 to get 32GB of memory on four 8GB cards.
It could be from a manufacturer’s position it is cheaper to offer bigger (fuller) cards for a given amount of storage than to continue filling up the P2 cassette only 1/2 full (16GB) or 1/4 full (8GB) with small amounts of memory. This is not price fixing, it’s economics and it is simply wiser to purchase larger cards until you have enough memory for your needs.
The digital still camera analogy I used earlier isn’t perfect. Jpeg, tiff, gif etc. compression technologies have stabilized for still image applications whereas new video compression formats are still emerging with innovative technologies.
Still photographers are able to acquire larger less compressed images on the larger cards while video people are still working on the length of time we can record with out having to stop for offloading. New compression formats and bigger cards are allowing us to shoot in 1080/60i, 1080/30p and other less solid state friendly formats for longer periods of time.
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It’s the same as SD and CF memory cards when the 1st digital still cameras came out. My 1st digital still cam came with an 8 or 16 MB card and I paid $450.00 extra for a 96MB card. Then came the 128’s; 256’s; 384’s; 512’s etc. Try and fine a 96MB card now a-days and would it be worth anything when we can get 4GB cards for $100.00. When P2 gets up to 64 and 128 GB a lot of people will sell their 4, 8, 16GB cards cheap on ebay.
I still have my $450.00 -96MB CF card and use it occasionally for transferring data and things. It paid for itself no problem but I would never buy another at any price now that the GB sized cards are available so cheap.
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They no longer show up on the Panny web site but the 16GB cards are $900.00 list price so you must be finding dealers with old stock.
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Anything under $5000.00 is usually grey market and likely has no warranty other than a Mac or Repairtech private warranty.
Keep in mind any HVX200 purchased from an authorized panasonic dealer also includes a 16GB P2 card free! So in reality they are about $5000.00 or less now when you consider the value of the P2 card.
The current B&H price is $5195.00 and they are authorized dealers I’m sure. According to the Panasonic promo anything purchased now will include the 16Gb card in the box but I would check with B&H or where ever you buy from to confirm.
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[hallwaypd] “P2 was initially introduced with the HVX200 and nothing else.”
Actually as I stated earlier it was introduced on several eng cameras (sd) a year before the HVX200 was announced. I’m not sure of the exact date but here is a press release from 09/2004. As you can see, Panasonic designed it as a storage vehicle for many cameras, it was never designed solely with or around the HVX200 alone.
https://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/news/news04_035.asp
Panasonic originally announced a prosumer camera even a year or 2 before this with the card slots on the left side and it was to use standard CF cards but I don’t think it got off the ground. Once they figured how to raid the cards and realized they could bypass the $12,000.00 head system required for tape recording of HD they knew they had something. The HVX200 came a year or so after 2 or 3 SD models.
AVC-I is the maturing of mpeg4 technology which makes solid state or flash memory even more efficient. As you mentioned earlier this isn’t going to end but we get these plateaus that last a while.
Television and the way we view it is constantly evolving. Who knows what could come out of left field next! For the here and now, with avc, vc-1, ProRes and other advancing compression technologies file sizes are shrinking and storage medias are getting bigger. That’s why I state P2 is solid, solid state. 😉 Today P2 will – On a single 32GB P2 card, professionals can record for 32 minutes in AVC-Intra 100 or DVCPRO HD, 40 minutes in AVC-Intra 100 in native 1080/24p, 80 minutes in AVC-Intra 100 or DVCPRO HD in native 720/24p, 64 minutes in DVCPRO50 and 128 minutes in DVCPRO. With the average re-write life cycle of 150,000 re-writes the same P2 card does what it does today and will be doing it for a long long time to come.
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Has there been a time slip here or something? This whole thread is reminiscent of posts from 2 years ago prior to the release of the HVX200. (P2 had already been in use in SD ENG cameras for a year by then)
[hallwaypd] “My concern is P2 for the long haul and what will be at NAB in April to compete with it.
“[hallwaypd] “but it leaves the door open for exploitation by companies like Sony.
“True Sony has ruled the roost in the broadcast world with their 1″- “c” format of the 70’s and on to beta sp and the vx1000 was a ground shaker but they’ve had some dead end stuff too. They’ve got their fingers in too many pies if you ask me. They’ve been playing catch-up with the HDV products that JVC introduced and just now following Canon’s lead with interchangeable lens hdv cams. Now they are chasing Panny with card storage. Sony raided flash cards are similarly priced and the speed of the cards are not the bottleneck. We’ve all gotten around the interface issues and Panasonic remains true to form in supporting P2 with the amazing HPX3000.
If new holographic storage cards that transfer wirelessly to your laptop appear at the next NAB it won’t spell the end of the world for tapeless cameras. I have an old fuji S2pro digital still camera that came out just after SD memory cards were introduced. Up till then compact flash cards were the norm but what did fujinon do? They put an sd card slot in as well so the camera uses either CF or SD type cards. (incidentally, after 5 years I’ve never had a need to buy or use SD cards yet, the CF cards work well and prices are compatible) I’m sure future generations of video cameras could also adopt this form of compatibility as well. It would be simpler than building dockable cameras of yesteryear. Panny could have P2 slots and holographic cards slots in the HPX4000.
[hallwaypd] “The question that I am asking is is P2 really the format that will be the standard for the next 10 like BetaSP?”
BetaSP was a format, cameras ingested it and decks spit it out. P2 is not a format it is only media that stores many types of formats. A Panasonic HVX200 can record 81 different formats of video onto a P2 card. At this point AVC-I appears to be the BetaSP killer.