Subject: Re: Digital Video....
From: Elliot Bain <[email-masked]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 01:41:01 -0500

[email-masked] wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, [email-masked] (Elliot Bain) wrote:
> 
> >It doesn't seem to me to be premature in starting to aquire digital
> >footage. The quality is outstanding and far exceeds any consumer or
> >pro-sumer products on the market. The format is a standard one.
> 
>         I've heard these cameras lack good glass and professional features, like
> manual iris, manual zoom, etc.  For LW animators they may be good IF we can
> access the digital info without it being re-encoded into analog signals.  Is
> that possible?
> 
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Yep, these are not commercial grade devices. Most lenses for cameras cost 2-3 times 
the cost of the VX1000. But there is a digital IEEE 1394 Serial Bus Port which allows 
digital input and output without the analog stages being involved.

Sony purposly crippled these machines so as not to eat into their commercial devices.

Having said all that, these digital camcorders totally blow away anything else in 
their price ranges. After all, price/performance is what it's all about. If you've 
got enough money, you can get all the performance you want. If you don't, these 
machines will do quite nicely.

Elliot Bain