studio camera demo
Yesterday the VCAM staff had a visit from Bob Katz (yes, that's his real name) from Audio Video in Albany. It was Bob's second trip up to Burlington with cameras to show us. We are in the midst of replacing our three main studio cameras and we want to be sure we like what we're ordering, especially since replacing all three cameras requires that we spend almost an entire year's worth of our capital budget.
When Bob was here last month he showed us the Ikegami HC-D57. It was a fine camera, but the staff felt it wasn't enough of an improvement over what we already have to justify the cost.
Yesterday, however, we were treated to a demo of the Panasonic AJ-SPX800. It's an amazing camera and I for one am hoping we get these. The jury is still out though because Bob needs to give us a quote and these cameras may wind up being out of our price range.
Stay tuned. As news of this impending purchase comes in, we'll let you know here on the blog.
6 Comments:
testing comments and tags. the pic works. good layout. decent colors.
preview didn't work - showed me the same thing only new letters to type in (damn, forget what that thing's called)
tags worked.
wow, you're 22? ;)
VCAM is 22, thank you. Old enough to drink.
The 800 is pretty cool-DVCPRO0, 4:2:2 color sampling, 2/3 inch chips! The problem is post production workflow. You also need to get cards for the camera. It's pretty damn cool, but I fear that the whole shebang will be out of VCAMS's range. I think a decent deck that will read the cards is around $10K. Also you'll want to get a decent lens which is $25K, A/B batts, sticks, bags, various accessories, you're looking at around $80K-$100K.
Sure would be nice, though.
Mark, remember these would replace out Sony DXC-325s in the studio. They would be hard wired in with a Camplex set-up (ala Lori's truck) so we would not need batteries and we would never use the P2 cards. We would send a component (RGB) signal out to the switcher. Two of these would have standard Fuginon broadcast zooms and the third (middle) camera would have a slightly more expensive wider angle zoom lens. I don't expect the glass to cost more than $10k per camera.
$80k-$100k is the ballpark we have for this for all three. Or do you think it will be that much per camera? The Ikegamis we looked at came in at about $80k with support (very nice Sachtler pedestals) and Camplex rig. These will be more, but how much remains to be seen.
WEEEEEeeeeee. this is fun
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