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Sony’s New HVX-200/ P2 Killer - And Why I’m Staying Out of This Flame WarSource: http://www.joshoakhurst.com/?p=291Displaying mentions in this article, for full text please visit source. Regular readers here may have noticed a steep drop off of tech related articles over the last few months. This distancing from equipment related posts have been calculated. – No one argues that their writing is better based on the equipment they used. The advances in digital video capture are leading the film market into just this scenario - EQUIPMENT ACCESS FOR EVERYONE. Right now we move pixels in a volatile world. Equipment needed to make magic runs from $500 to $5,000,000, and technology advances outdate equipment almost as fast as you can pay it off (wouldn’t you hate to start a rental house these days? Sure there’s a lot of demand, but how do you justify new expenditures that loose value so quickly? Is the demand for gear greater than the rate of depreciation? What about in five years?) It is under this premise of equipment futility that I have ceased interest in “wanking over specs with geeks” (as we’ve termed it ourselves). I noticed all this enamorment with new technology created a barrier in my brain with creativity. Gone were the days of creating art, shooting things - writing things; instead replaced with what COULD be done instead of what I WAS doing. So I stopped caring. We know now that camera and post gear is here to help us. There are cost effective solutions that run the gamut from Indie productions to huge studio features. I got over it. There’s a ton of equipment, and it all does cool stuff. I encourage anyone who caught the wide-eyed bug to step back and reevaluate why fancy gear made you happy in the first place. I’m not even saying it best here. Barry Green has a great rant over a DVXuser about this same principle, and Mike Curtis chimes in with his thoughts here.
$6,600 MSRP $7,400 MSRP The Sony setup provides 4.5 hours 1080 24p HDV recording time compared to 1.5 hours of DVCPRO HD recording time on the FireStore. The FireStore is also more expensive and has shipped with a decent amount of third-party hassle. Sony’s recordable hard drive is manufacturer spec - no third-party bugs to work out. Also, you can SIMULTANEOUSLY record 1080 24p footage to tape AND to hard drive with the V1U setup - not so with the HVX. Additionally - remember that Panasonic is standing on an island with their P2 recording method. HDV has been destined as a future proof format by the manufacturing conglomerate of JVC, Sony, and Canon. Even better is that MiniDV tapes recorded using this new 1080 24p HDV are BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE with existing Sony HDV decks (that’s a HUGE bonus). Oh HDV artifacting BLAH BLAH BLAH 4:2:0 color space BLAH BLAH BLAH variable frame rates BLAH BLAH BLAH - doesn’t matter - THE NEW SONY HVR-V1U is a better value to consumers than the HVX. It ships in DECEMBER OF THIS YEAR. – In a decade - we’ll all have cameras - just cameras. No spec comparisons, no Internet flame wars, no feeling cooler than the next guy because your gear is newer. There is a threshold to how far 2D acquisition advancement can go, and we’re blazing to it. Then they’re all just typewriters. Access for all who want them. And that’s a good thing. Feeds and posts are not affliated with ://URLFAN. They are displayed here simply for informational purposes, if you would like to remove your feed, posts, or domain from ranking and analysis, please contact us. |
BUT THAT SAID……This new Sony HVR-V1U 1080 24p HDV camera is a better buy than the Panasonic HVX-200. Pricing:://URLFAN (.15)
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