Splitpair
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Finally Made The Move To HDTV
After a few months of deliberating a move from SD to HD and researching the costs versus the features I finally decided to make the move to HD, the second decision was tape or tapeless/card based and the decision was to stay tape based as we have a small fortune tied up in tape based NLE’s and we decided we would remain that way for now not wanting to totally kill the 2009/2010 budget this early in the year.
The primary driver for HD was while most of the local broadcasters transmit in HD the majority of their field work (excepting sports) is shot in SD and we wanted to get an edge on them early in the game, my personal predictions and that of my partner are the 2010 and 2012 election cycles will be a generous and newsworthy few years and should produce enough business to justify the costs of the upgrades. We also have a plan if we can get the financing to acquire either a majority or total ownership in a floundering local UHF TV station/license.
Anyhow the first of the HD units arrived from B&H at the beginning of this week and after a day on the bench being equipped followed by a few days of testing it is now ready to go into the field and get to work earning its keep or so I hope.
For what it is worth the unit is a JVC GY-HD200 SD/HDV Mini-DV based camcorder equipped with a Fujinon Th16x5.5BRMU zoom lens, an Azden shotgun microphone, an Azden single channel diversity antenna wireless receiver, an Anton-Bauer 50 watt Ultralight II and powered by an Anton-Bauer Gold Mount with a combination of Trimpacs (45 watt hour) and Digital HYTRON (140 watt hour) packs.
The drivers side of the JVC unit.
The business end.
The public side.
Obligatory box shot, I like how pro equipment is boxed free of colorful photos of the camcorder being used by a model unknowing of even how to turn the unit on nor less of how to operate it. 
Wayne
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Re: My Third XDCam, but First PMW-EX3
said by Splitpair  :When it comes to ENG lenses in my opinion Fujinon provides the best bang for the buck, however if one is getting into long zoom field lenses Canon cannot be beat for quality reliability and durability however they are a BMW lens as in Burn My Wallet. Wayne I'm not so impressed with Canon footage I've seen from their lower end camcorders like the XL-H1. The 20X Zeis tele lens on the Sony HVR-V1U is a lot sharper and less plagued with CA.
Now perhaps you're talking about the $160,000 zoom lenses that are several feet long and weigh over 80lbs.. those I'm sure will perform well. But at that price, they ought to!
The Fujinon are better at the wide and midrange. They don't do so well beyond 90% of zoom range. But within that range, they are amazing.
It's funny, when I show some footage I shot on the projection system for my wife to see, and then we watch a rented blu-ray disc, she almost always asks why the rental movie is not sharp. I always crack a remark like, "well honey, it wasn't shot on an XDCam."  |
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Splitpair
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I'm not so impressed with Canon footage I've seen from their lower end camcorders like the XL-H1. The 20X Zeis tele lens on the Sony HVR-V1U is a lot sharper and less plagued with CA. In my opinion one can write off the Canon Prosumer camcorders such as the XL and its lower end cousin GL series.
Now perhaps you're talking about the $160,000 zoom lenses that are several feet long and weigh over 80lbs.. those I'm sure will perform well. But at that price, they ought to! Those are what I was referring to and that is where Canon beats Fujinon hands down even though Fuji has many parallel models that are equally or lower priced.
The Fujinon are better at the wide and midrange. They don't do so well beyond 90% of zoom range. But within that range, they are amazing. As I stated, in the ENG arena the Fuji’s kick butt and are very competitively priced, I have used them for a number of years on my Panasonic camcorders and they not only work well they will take a licking and keep on ticking.
Wayne
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zencyl
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Re: The One, The Only...Box Shot Thread! (part three)
here is my first camera. Figured it was good for a starter.
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Splitpair
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Just Another Head Shot. ;-)
Canon EOS-1D Mark II
20mm 1/250th F13 ISO100
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Canon EOS-1D Mark II
20mm 1/250th F4.5 ISO100
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Wayne
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HogRider
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Re: The One, The Only...Box Shot Thread! (part three)
Just received this one
SAMSUNG GX-1S
0mm 2s -0.5ev F13 ISO200
Sigma 17-70mm
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drew
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clubs: | said by HogRider :Just received this one [att=1] mmmm |
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Wayne GphFX
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Apple iPhone 3GS
3.8mm 1/10th F2.8 ISO974
Happy BDay |
BTW: The shot came from the iPhone lol.
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HogRider
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Just in ....
SAMSUNG GX-1S
0mm 1/1th F8 ISO200
Pentax K-X
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Jodokast96
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Erial, NJ | Slick! Dying to know two things. First, how does it feel compared to the K20D? Second, is the high ISO IQ as good as what I've been hearing? |
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drew
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clubs: | reply to HogRider
No proper front cap? |
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HogRider
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said by Jodokast96 :Slick! Dying to know two things. First, how does it feel compared to the K20D? Second, is the high ISO IQ as good as what I've been hearing? I basically just unboxed it and did a quick test shot. Everything looks fine. The camera powered up w/o problems with a set of Sanyo Eneloop Hybrids. I will take it out for a couple of test shots in the next few day.
Compared to the K20D: It's tiny and super light. Great for hiking.
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HogRider
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said by drew :No proper front cap? This is the std. front cap, that comes with all Pentax DSLRs.
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drew
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clubs: | Maybe I'm just seeing it wrong but it looks like paper or some kind of thin non-reusable plastic.
Is that correct? |
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HogRider
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| said by drew :Maybe I'm just seeing it wrong but it looks like paper or some kind of thin non-reusable plastic. Is that correct? No - it is actually a pretty sturdy piece of semi flexible plastic. I have had that type pf body cover for years, they are very nice.
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drew
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clubs: | Now you've got me really curious... pictures please  |
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