Sony Camcorders unveiled at CES
musicvid10
wrote on 1/6/2014, 8:10 PM
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Rob Franks
wrote on 1/6/2014, 10:30 PM
I hope they're a better quality. I've been buying Sony for a number of years now... HC1, HC3, Sr series, cx series, and now I have the PJ430 and 790 (and the 790 set my back 1700 bucks)
The build quality gets worse and worse with each passing year. They also pulled an "Apple" with this last year in that the shoe is different so that none of my previous Sony hot shoe stuff fits/works.
Sony really needs to impress me this time around otherwise it's off to Canon.
The build quality gets worse and worse with each passing year. They also pulled an "Apple" with this last year in that the shoe is different so that none of my previous Sony hot shoe stuff fits/works.
Sony really needs to impress me this time around otherwise it's off to Canon.
JohnnyRoy
wrote on 1/7/2014, 6:57 AM
For $1,999 USD the FDR-AX100 looks like a nice 4K camera. It looks like it has a fair number of manual override buttons on the exterior for a consumer camera. With a 1" Exmor R CMOS Sensor it should have good low light capability. I'd be interested to see some footage from it and to know how smoothly it edits on the Vegas Pro timeline.
~jr
~jr
wwjd
wrote on 1/7/2014, 8:05 AM
looks great. even viewed on 1080 P screen, you can seen the DETAIL is retained and not all smeared up like Canon DSLR does at HD.
slow pans, time lapse, low light look great. what's with the freaky judder/stutter framerate??
ddm
wrote on 1/7/2014, 10:35 AM
That looked pretty darn impressive.
Arthur.S
wrote on 1/7/2014, 11:04 AM
Impressive, but why such a static camera? Makes you wonder what pans and fast movement will produce.
wwjd
wrote on 1/7/2014, 11:57 AM
I agree. Something is a tad strange here. I think static shots definietly show off the great detail, but maybe faster movement is really compromised via compression? - which is to be expected (but unwanted) at this price point.
Also, some of the movement I saw seemed.... well... "off" in some way.... a little jerky for 30p.... maybe that was shutter speed? anyway, still pretty decent price to resolution.
Now, if I could only mount my lenses....
Also, some of the movement I saw seemed.... well... "off" in some way.... a little jerky for 30p.... maybe that was shutter speed? anyway, still pretty decent price to resolution.
Now, if I could only mount my lenses....
relaxvideo
wrote on 1/7/2014, 2:12 PM
Why static scenes?
I think because motion resolution is less than 4k.
Here you can see the highest detail.
But i think motion will be good enough with 100mbps recording..
I think because motion resolution is less than 4k.
Here you can see the highest detail.
But i think motion will be good enough with 100mbps recording..
Pete Siamidis
wrote on 1/7/2014, 6:03 PM
I think I'll stick with my Sony NX30 for now. The main thing I want from a new camcorder is better compression, maybe going with h265. That would help me quite a bit when I have to archive all the video footage that I record.
VidMus
wrote on 1/7/2014, 9:20 PM
Shoot 4k and they still want their videos on SD 720x480 DVD's. Sigh!
If it were not for the fact that starting with HD makes the SD DVD look better, I would then ask, why bother?
It is too bad the industry wasted way too much of our time on that format war they had. The Blu-ray spec needs to be upgraded for better use of the higher resolutions and progressive videos.
If it were not for the fact that starting with HD makes the SD DVD look better, I would then ask, why bother?
It is too bad the industry wasted way too much of our time on that format war they had. The Blu-ray spec needs to be upgraded for better use of the higher resolutions and progressive videos.
ritsmer
wrote on 1/8/2014, 1:49 AM
I think I'll stick with my Sony NX30 for now - etc...
Yes, the NX30 makes good results - but judging from very positive experiences with my Sony RX100 with the same 1.0" chip as the new CX900 high end consumer camera and the fact that the CX900 AFAIK records in 4:2:2 plus improvements from the new Bionz X processor puts it right on top of the wishlist for me -
- specially as our TVsets for watching the videos get larger and larger.
Yes, the NX30 makes good results - but judging from very positive experiences with my Sony RX100 with the same 1.0" chip as the new CX900 high end consumer camera and the fact that the CX900 AFAIK records in 4:2:2 plus improvements from the new Bionz X processor puts it right on top of the wishlist for me -
- specially as our TVsets for watching the videos get larger and larger.
ushere
wrote on 1/8/2014, 3:13 AM
ho hum, no tape, no buy ;-)
wwjd
wrote on 1/8/2014, 8:49 AM
other companies are readying their 4Ks also, maybe even with better features and bitrates. I won't mention them by name, but they might rhyme with Anna-Sonic