Sony’s HD1000u & Panasonic’s DVC-60 – Seperated at birth?
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[...] Lastly, another teaser, but I have more than 25 detailed photos of this baby in a new post: [...]
Pingback by Sony’s XDCAM-EX & HD1000u & more! « I E B A Tech Thoughts | October 11, 2007 |
Best overview of this camcorder I’ve seen so far. Sadly, it confirms some of my concerns about this unit. I wonder… did Sony actually speak to any videographers before designing this camera? I doubt it.
I’ve owned several Sony DV cameras, and they were/are some of the best in class gear. Sony did some dumb things on these units. A single VU meter on the VX2000 for example. But what dunderhead forgot to include XLR inputs? Even a separate 1′8″ jack would have been of some help. Are they so brain dead that the don’t know event videographers need a way to plug in a wireless mic? Apparently so.
There is a stereo 1/8″ jack for audio input. Just no easy way to manually control the audio without an external box.
[...] You can read the entire article at Anthony’s IEBA blog. [...]
Pingback by Sony’s HD1000u vs. Panasonic’s DVC-60 at FreshDV | October 14, 2007 |
is this a 3 chip cam?
No. One CMOS chip.
[...] interesting is that the HVR-HD1000 (u) is mentioned here. After numerous pictures and hands-on with the camcorder at a Sony press event in NYC, it looked like the MemoryStick slot (shown to the [...]
Pingback by Sony refreshes HDV line- HVR-S270 and HVR-Z7E « I E B A Tech Thoughts | November 14, 2007 |
I guess they had to maximise the r&d cost of the hc7. If they had to include other ins and outs they should have gone back to the drawing board and delay everything.