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[David Saraceno] “Why move to this laptop is you know that current laptops will utilize the cards, and there isn’t an issue?”

The new model has actually enough cpu power for convenient hd editing. 5 times more than the last PB (and 7 times more than the one I’m typing, not to mention display resolution, etc. Everybody does not buy new computers twice a year…).

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Could you at least tell if there were any difference between 1080 and 720?

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[George] “like buying a car and Toyota not telling you if its a inline 4 or v8 engine you are getting.”

This might be not so far in the future. Already in some mercedes, you can’t open the hood without a service remote controller 🙂

My guess, in the light of those first chart pictures, is that one chip has only about 720×720 pixels.

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Jan (if you just have time to answer), how seamless is the footage when same shot continues on another card (1st card gets full and 2nd one continoes)? They will show up as 2 separate files when copied from cards, won’t they?

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So with protect switch on, there’s no way to empty those cards with cardreader for continous shooting?

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I meant that when you “delete” something in Os X from any kind of storage, it does not really delete it, but it moves the files to “.Trashes” folder which is hidden in the root of that storage. When you “Empty Trash” then those files are really deleted.

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[Barry Green] “A 2/3″ CCD has a width of about 9.6mm
…a 1/3″ chip… …only got about 5.25 mm horizontally… …vertically in a 2.95 mm height…”

16:9 2/3″ chip’s active area size is exactly 9.6 mm x 5.4 mm.

I’ve always been under impression that 1/3″‘s dimensions are exactly half of this.
So it isn’t so?

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[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “Although nothing appeared to be on the card, when reinserting back into the camera, I only had 8 minutes of time left.”

Did you empty your Trash in Mac?

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I’m also wondering where’s the photodo.com for moving image lenses.
If lense can resolve what 1080p sensor can take, (with kell factor of 0.8) the real resolving power could be 1500×850.
https://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showpost.php?p=407684&postcount=49
Shows some numbers that 1/3″ cameras resolve.
Nowhere near what 1080p could.
I can’t figure out any reason why 2/3″ cameras wouldn’t have double resolution.
Their lenses must have at least the same quality than these sub $10k cameras and with same resolving power (lp/mm) they produce double resolution to 2/3″ imagers.
2/3″ imagers also usually have “full resolution” ie. same resolution that camera records.
So that does not either hinder them.

2/3″ sd cameras have many years had “oversized” imagers ie. more pixels than they record. With this they cold produce full real resolution of recording format (ccd resolution – kell factor = recorded resolution).

Remains to be seen when 2/3″ hd cameras start to use oversized imagers and when imager sensivity allows 1/3″ cameras to use full resolution imagers.

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If you want to start in February you have to take ntsc version. Pal version might be out sometime in April – May.
With pal version you can record more horisontal resolution (1440 vs. 1280) in 1080 mode, but right now that seems a bit irrelevant when first reports show that camera’s true horisontal resolving power is only a bit over 600 lines.