Whos wants to buy my HVX200 with 2 16 gig P2 cards

Why not the pmw? Is it because of the tapless aspect of that cam too? Does the firestore work on the Sony cams?

I must admit I am def not as knowledageable on any of these cams but like the idea of the tapelss workflow...its just as you said not a lot of shooting time on 16gb at the highest quality.

Can you use the DVD Tapes like in the PDW-530 etc?

tapeless worlflow sounds great in theory but untill they have ways to fit hours on cheap disks then I really don't see the advantage to it in fact I see a big disadvantage IMO...

like I said before.. I shoot lots and lots of content.. I have lots and lots of content now.. god forbid that the drives crash when you use these tapeless means... I know some that do tape and card at the same time...

the pmw I have read to many bad reviews on from inde filmmakers to even consider myself....

right now im really really really and I can't stress how really torn I am between the v1u and z1u...

some people do not like sony HDV they claim colors run and melt ect ect.. but again im back to someone like discovery channel they have all the money in the world but they only use z1u's for all the shows...

in the end I guess you gotta get what works for your projects...

I shoot a lot of stuff... commericals, porno, reality shows, docs, weddings, you name it we shoot it.. so I need to be able to be out in the field and switch a tape out quick and still have best quality...

with p2 cards you need firestore, then you got that god awefull mtx file that I have not met one person who likes....

so I dunno as you can tell by my abnormally long post this is a subject ive been wrecking my brain over for the past week...

if you want to get together on ICQ and pick both our brains about em pro's and con's I am always down cause I do need the help on deciding... tomorrow is d day for me I gotta buy tomorrow....

Hey Sorry I ran out yesterday so I couldn't jump on ICQ....what did you end up going with? I am still searching myself.

I am thinking the v1u to be honest.. im looking for a place now within a few hours drive I can go get it today.. B & H is closed cause they are jew and it is passover..

nothing against jews but I want a camera

It's actually Purim

I have not used some of the places here so I can't say how reputable they are but the prices are VERY cheap.

https://www.diduprice.com/stores.asp...t&sas=1&ssort=

Mechanical failure is also possible with tapes, although the overall damage will probably be less... you might get away with a crinkled tape and losing 30 seconds of footage rather than the whole lot...

If you're worried about your hard drives crashing, why don't you back everything up? As a content producer you'd be mad not to have that redundancy. I do hobby stuff so I don't go overboard, but I do have RAID, a separate backup drive, and of course the original master tapes. (Should probably keep the masters offsite...)

Hard drive costs are coming down all the time, I don't know about HD video but with old school miniDV my cost to store an hour's worth of footage is about the same regardless of whether it's a miniDV master tape or a 13GB file on a hard drive. It's no longer necessary to spend $10k on an enterprise RAID solution for long term storage.

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I got the z1u today.. playing with it now