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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
That's a nice camera, Vid! I haven't tried any P2 card technology yet. I film mostly with a Sony HDV camera nowadays. So the 8 Gb P2 card records only sixteen minutes of footage to a single P2 card and does not record simultaneously to the mini-DV tape, right? How does the P2 card hook up to your computer to capture or transfer the footage to the hard drive? And lastly, for curiosity, is this P2 card technology available only in new HD cameras specially made with it built in or can it be added on to an existing HDV camera that does not have it built in?
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Hi Jim ..
Yah the cam can take two p2 cards .. and yah not much capture spacce for a 1500$ card ..How ever the cam also has SDD via USB 2.0 so you can record to an HDD, Like the Firestore .. way cheaper then the P2 card.
Errr ...Tony404 .. Keep in mind one very simple way to determine an HD from an HDV .. an HD camera takes HD tapes only! .. and HDV takes MiniDV tapes to record HD .. Big difference .. also I don't know of any HD camera for under 60 000$ ... Then there is HDPro, Only panasonic has rights to that format .. again not HD tape but HDPro Tape. Fuck Barry I should write a book ... LOL
The Canon X1A that I am more interested in doesn't have an SDD in so now seperate HDD record, however the X1G (one Level up from the X1A) does have SDD so you can hook up HDD record to it .. However I think the price difference from the X1A to the X1G is about $2300 more.
NOw to get back to your Sony cams .. the pana sits at the same price point even a little lower then the Z1U. I've seen the Pana at 5300$. It's a little smaller then the Z1U .. and has some pretty cool settings .. for example (and this is the first time I see this setting) you can change the direction of your Iris Toggle switch .. Meaning you can have it Roll upwards to open the iris or downwards to open the iris ... It might not make or break my decision .. but since I'm a Sony shooter I'm used to up to open iris.
These are just a few of the settings I've come accross .. more to come
