Rennie Klymyk
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The AJ-SPX800 has been out for what a year now, using P2. The network tv stations are opening up to this technology pretty good so far. Even more so now that this new generation is SD-HD switchable. See PR- Panny Press releases With these users it is the speed of production more than anything driving the acceptance of the cameras and this is an area where cost is not such a factor. Getting the story to press is the important thing. This could be a flash in the pan technology but given panasonics commitment and the industry acceptance so far and the success of the conpact flash I think it will stick. If someone invents smaller faster cheaper memory there will be adapters. I had a Kodak/Nikon DCS420 that used the big PCMCIA ATA type cards and I was able to buy an adapter for the smaller faster cheaper and much higher capacity compact flash when it came out. They fit right inside the PCMCIA ATA type card adapters. These PCMCIA ATA type cards were used in laptops and other aplications too and the adapters are still readily available. Perhaps the P2 cards will find their way into other applications where speed is important. Maybe they will replace the ipod or be used in laptops in place of hard drives. This is solid state storage which is much safer than hard drives.
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[toke lahti] “Yep, buy the camera this year, put it in a closet for five years and after that buy p2’s.
IF p2 as a format have become popular, then you might get one hour less than $2k.”Back then I didn’t put the camera in the closet for 5 years, I paid the price and a month later added a 256mb card and another 382mb card a year or so later. I’ve never looked back and the cards paid for themseves with what I saved on film. I agree with you though, don’t buy more than you absolutely need because we should be able to practically watch the price fall. Compact flash cards got bigger and cheaper but they also got faster load and unload times by 25X from the first ones. A 6mb file (1 frame) took over 2 minutes to write to a slow card. We don’t need this for video acquisition as the speed is already there, we just need more capacity.
If you only plan to buy one at first you can probably buy 2 4GB cards for less than an 8GB as pricing works like ram in a computer. You pay a premium for the biggest ones. However you can’t hot swap ram like you can these cards so if you can save $300.00 or $400.00 or so this way, what the heck, you will always be able to use them. The bigger companies with the budgets will always buy the big ones so when the 16Gb’s come out the 8GB cards should fall in price and so on. -
(jeremiah black)………………This was, I think, Panasonic’s only mistake. They should’ve priced the camera at $8000 and included an 8 gig P2 cards, because otherwise everybody will just cry and complain about buying a P2 card, immediatly forgetting what a great deal the camera itself was in the first place.
I agree. The 1st published interview with Panasonic the price was mentioned at $10,000.00 and we all were swallowing the bitter pill. Had we learned it would include 2 – 8GB P2 cards it would have been a bonus.
I remember when I bought my 1st digital still camera 4 or 5 years ago and paid $450.00 for a 96mb compact flash card. They currently sell for less than $10.00 on ebay now. A 2.2 magicstor was $76.85 yesterday. These prices will come down fast and it looks like we will have other options before the camera is released.
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Glad to hear she’s still around! A google search turned up a lot of links where she speaks for herself in the interviews. There’s some great photos too! I have fond memories of her and found her to be very courteous and knowledgable when seeking info on the trinity system. Wish I were there, I’d say hello!
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These capacities have been posted in lower posts and I believe also on the panasonic web site.
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The most available flat spot on this type of gear is the bottom. A waffer shaped housing can bolt to the tripod socket and in turn have a tripod socket on itself. It wouldn’t block any other controls there either. The Kiki Stockhamer model on the otherhand would be a definate crime to alter in anyway shape or form! There’s no flat bottom there! Come to think of it you’d be hard pressed to find a flat spot anywhere on that model!
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Last week their was a post that said there was actually 3 models, NTSC, Pal and a Universal (I think that was the name used) which did all formats. I think Steve posted it either here or in the HDV forum.
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According to earlier posts/links it has analog HD component outs which would have to be used for: A) live HD monitoring or feeding a deck; …B) playback of the storage cards or …C) firewire pass through to an HD monitor or deck or …D) all of the above. Although I suppose it is possible that not all of it’s formats qualify for some/any of these possibilities.
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I’ve read in some of the links in the posts below the lens has a “SMOOTH CAM DRIVEN MANUAL ZOOM” and it is referred to as”WIDE ANGLE ZOOM”.
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Maybe check with AJA. Not only is FCP5 a new version but we have a whole new architecture in quicktime7 not to mention the OS upgrade to Tiger (although it will run on OS10.3.9). If you don’t have a heavy deadline it sure would be tempting but there are a whole lot of variables here. It won’t ship till the 29th either.