Solid State done right? Review of the Sony Ex1
For some time now the video making populous has been sniffing the sweet scent of a tape-less recording future. And while many consumer mums-and-dads have long since ditched tape for the convenience of hard-drive and DVD recording cameras, professionals and indie movie makers have moved a much slower pace of adoption. The reasons for their reticence have been largely well founded with solid-state potentially presenting as many issues as benefits.
Panasonic lead the charge in the tape-less arena introducing the P2 memory card system in its HVX series camera some time back. But up until now they have been rather lonely on a solid state island. Now Sony, obviously having bided its time to see how P2 panned out, has come to the party with its own tape-less, memory card-based HD recording system; the EX1.
This review is in two parts :
Part 1 Hereand
Part 2 Here - which includes a series of full res HD frames direct from the camera showing the rather exceptional dynmaic range and detail clarity of this quite extrodinary camera.
Posted at 12:00AM Jan 08, 2008
by Mike Jones in video |
shoulder brace for it in the morning as it will make hand holding it easier.
Jeff Peters
Posted by Jeff Peters on January 21, 2008 at 10:02 AM EST #
Posted by Mike Jones on January 21, 2008 at 02:36 PM EST #
http://www.studio1productions.com/vsb1.htm
I recommend any EX1 owner take a look at this shoulder brace. It's great.
Don
Posted by Don Rogers on February 07, 2008 at 01:24 PM EST #
http://www.studio1productions.com/vsb1.htm
While you still need your left hand to help suppor the camera, the brace makes it much easier to keep it steady when handholdling
Danny
Posted by Danny Wilsom on February 24, 2008 at 03:25 PM EST #