So Panasonic pulled a fast one at this years NAB with the anouncement of the AG-AF100, the worlds first dedicated "cinema" video camera with a m4/3 chip- all with a price under $6k. Now I know a lot of you may think thats expensive compared to a dslr, or even a Gh1; which shares the sensor technology being used in the AF100. Let me go out on a limb here and say this will be the goto camera for a lot of projects next year.
Add these up;
dvx100/hvx200 legacy + Video specific GH1 style 16:9 m4/3 chip (11.6 stops DR) with a mount that can accept ANY lens you want + Good balanced codec with long record times and super easy editing + Pro Audio/video I/O and HDSDI (for 10-bit uncompressed if you really want it) + flip out and adjustable EVF and LCD and hdmi monitoring + ZERO aliasing/miore issues + 1080/24p + built in ND wheel + variable frame rates + Detailed in camera image adjustments... all in a very compact and reliable camera kit with instant boot up... Well thats a pretty badass camera for $6k that you could take anywhere in the world with you and shoot anything you want, more importantly... a camera that you can not have to worry about messing your shoot up!
This is going to be a long year...
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"ZERO aliasing/miore issues"...how can you be so sure.
It's a big chip. Is the camera reading the whole chip? Or is it line skipping or using some other type of downscaling/interpolation?
Seeing as Jan Crittendan (sic) also said it's using the same chip as the GH1 won't it also clip really hard in the highlights? I'm thinking it might.
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