US$5k is pretty good price. There are some cheaper prices from no-name online retailers. Then add a wide angle adapter, a couple P2 cards or the HD recorder, and you're up to $7-8k real fast.
At the bottom of this page, there's a link to a music video shot with the Sanyo HD1000. With some work mousing around the video page, you can get to the "HD" version. I suspect it's 1280x720p30. The motion is too jerky to be 60p. I'm favorably impressed. With high motion, there's loss of resolution, but it's not hideous. It's fairly natural looking lossiness. I noticed some motion artifacts (video tearing) on playback, but I think it was just my laptop having trouble keeping up. Stepping through frame by frame, they looked fine.
$700 camera/dock + SD card + $120 for wide angle + extra SD cards < $1k.
Not bad for "HD Lite".
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At the bottom of this page, there's a link to a music video shot with the Sanyo HD1000. With some work mousing around the video page, you can get to the "HD" version. I suspect it's 1280x720p30. The motion is too jerky to be 60p. I'm favorably impressed. With high motion, there's loss of resolution, but it's not hideous. It's fairly natural looking lossiness. I noticed some motion artifacts (video tearing) on playback, but I think it was just my laptop having trouble keeping up. Stepping through frame by frame, they looked fine.
$700 camera/dock + SD card + $120 for wide angle + extra SD cards < $1k.
Not bad for "HD Lite".
- mark 12-01-2007 11:55 am