Top 3 from Pana at NAB
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!
