Well spotted. Canon are so weird. Their image is second to none in my experience - I haven't compared for a long time, but when I did, Canon were always winners on colour and low light. But it's almost like Canon don't ask people what inputs & features they'd like. No LANC? No XLR on the XL1/2? Sony have always understood pro & semi- pro needs a lot better, which is why you see them being used more. You'd have thought Canon would have learnt this by now...
Someone told me the new Panasonic cameras were going to be amazing, but all I've seen is the tapeless one - SD1 - that looks pretty great - but it shoots on AVHCD, a high-quality compressed format that is currently uneditable in FCP/Premiere/Vegas, etc. Does anyone know any more about Panasonic? On 3 Feb 2007, at 23:24, Kunga wrote: Devil is in the details. HV20 has no LANC port so you can't drive it with a remote zoom controller like a VariZoom and other tripod mountable zoom controllers. New Sony HDR-HC7 is the winner for 2007. Arrives next week for under $1400. <http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Sony-HDR-HC7-First-Impressions- Review.htm> <http://www.sonystyle.com:80/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/ USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=HDRHC7> 1. Manual Audio Gain 2. External Audio In 3. Headphone Jack 4. Top Loader 5. HDMI Out for Intensity interface <http://blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/> 6. Optional Bluetooth Wireless Mic $200 k On Feb 1, 2007, at 3:39 PM, WWWhatsup wrote: > [looks good, 24p too, I guess street price will be less] > > > Canon Coming Out with $1,300 HD Camera > > High-definition cameras are slowly trickling down to the > point where they're affordable. And Canon, which makes > some of the best non-HD camcorders, now plays in that > market. The new camcorder offers real benefits over the > previous model. Our story has details on what it does and > when it will be available. > > Canon Expands HD Line-up: > http://ct.eletters.whatsnewnow.com/rd/cts? > d=181-805-1-411-255402-45903-0-0-0-1 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
