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WOW! Sony releases info on some VERY interging cameras!

Posted by Martin:

Via FreshDV

Sony has put together some of the best ideas of sub $10,000 professional camera manufacturers into two cameras, the HVR-S270U and HVR-Z7U.

In these two cameras are great ideas:

1. Interchangeable lenses
2. 24P HDV
3. Recording to compact flash
4. CMOS imager

And it is that last one that really got my attention.  Good job for Sony bucking it's own tradition and not making its own format for recording to solid state. 

This will make a lot of people reconsider the P2 solution by Panasonic.

Click here to see the press release from Sony.

New Panasonic P2 camera in May

Posted by Martin:

From Creativecow, Panasonic has released information about a new shoulder mounted P2 camera, the AG-HPX500.

It is a 2/3 CCD camera with 4:2:2 sampling.  Since it is Panasonic this is of course DVCPRO format.

It does come with 4 P2 slots for longer record time.

It is scheduled for release in May, cost $14,000

Check out the link for more details.