We just recieved our HXR-MC1P, a small and portable AVCHD recorder which is not exactly a lipstick camera, but it comes pretty close. The image quality is decent, but there is one really annoying detail about this camera: The cable is not detachable! You don’t need a lot of foresight to predict that people are going to treat this camera in a fashion that is going to break this cable.
I have been looking for a portable signal generator, analyzer and monitor that can measure eye and jitter. And there is not a lot of products out there, and those out there are pretty expensive. I was lucky enough to fondle with the Phabrix SxE at NAB, and it seems like it has the right stuff. Still though, as a software feature, the eye and jitter ups the price with about $5000, that’s not cheap.
I don’t think I can hold of buying one, but does anyone know of any other product that does the job, DM me on twitter.
The best $695 you ever spent! Everybody has an ols PC lying around, but not everyone has a 3GB HD-SDI vectorscope in their closet. This my favorite single thing from NAB, and will get my first purchase!
1) Cinemon! That’s the name of the QuickTime MXF component that enables Final Cut Pro to speak Sony OP1A MXF! Joining the likes of MXF4MAC & Calibrated, Cinemon is only restricted by only being released in North America for the time being. This of course to satisfy a large American news organization’s needs for MXF on FCP timelines…
2) SRW-9000. Finally Sony has been able to cram a HDCAM SR recorder inside a camcorder and possible been able to power it on batteries! With a dynamic range that would make every RED owner red with envy, this camera is designed to be a successor to the old HDCAM 900 camera.
SONY SRW-9000
3) PDW-F800. As a low-end SRW-9000, PDW-F800 is branded with CineAlta and 24P capabilities. IMX50 and other options of the PDW-700 camera is built in the F800. In order to get those pictures out, Sony has introduced a deck to accompany the camera, the PDW-F1600.
AVC Ultra was released. We were sort of wondering where the 150mbit version of AVCIntra, that some of us have seen some years ago, had gone. Then the VBR codec at 200mbit+ called AVCUltra turned up with little or none warnings thru other channels.
AVCUltra story at www.panasonic.com
HPX-301 was released a bit before NAB, but is still quite significant. All though only 1/3 inch CMOS, the package is quite bulky. My guess is that the 20-bit processing draws half the 18 watts the camera uses. Therefore it would be impossible to make it a small camera, instead, it’s a shoulder camera with poor low-light performance but with brilliant imageprocessing.
HPX-301
P2 cards at sensible prices! OK, we have been waiting a while for this one… Pana changes some tech gear and say now slash prices to 1/3 of previous prices. There is some more to this story, but the general feel of it is: We’ve been screwing you for 5 years, but now Sony released EX1/EX3 last year, so we have to do something!
New not-so-much-of-a-rip-off-P2-cards!
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