Once again a bumper year for cameras, 18 to be exact, from shoulder mount to large sensor.
FEBRUARY 2015
Ikegami brought out the HC-HD300 CMOS studio field camera, Ikegami unlike most other manufacturers tend to build for the broadcast market.
APRIL 2015
This was the surprise from Canon previewing an 8K Cinema Camera, price is anybodys guess.
Canon showed the C300 MK11 with 4K internal recording but spoiled it with uncompetitive pricing and reducing the C300 to a ridicules price at the same time.
The Canon XC-10 was also announced and to be honest has not taken off partly due to the non constant aperture fixed 10x lens.
Another camera to make its debut was the URSA mini, great price at £2000 but spoiled by the EVF sold separately for a further £1000 half the price of the camera itself !
Black Magic also brought out the BM Micro Cinema Camera that takes micro four third lenses, I don’t know how well this camera has sold but at £679 you can’t go wrong.
Another shoulder mount from Panasonic the AJ-PX380 is a top end P2HD camcorder for the broadcast market.
The NAB show stopper was the Panasonic AG DVX-200 with its sexy red back. At £3,358 this 4K 50p camera has set the heather alight.
I know very little about this camera only that its 6K and sell in the US for $8000.
So thats up to April 2015 and already we have 9 new cameras, I will go through the rest of the year during the week.
The Ikegami AGAIN with a small handle.
What’s your favorite 2015 camera for small independent documentary filmmaking ?
HDW : Its up between the Sony FS5 and the JVC LS-300, my friend and blogger Rick Young has 6 Sony F3’s yet he is blown away by the features on the JVC LS-300.
I on the other hand bought a Sony FS5 as a “B” camera to my FS7. The main difference between the 2 cameras are the availability of proper servo zoom lenses for the FS5, something JVC need to look at as 3x M4/3 zoom lenses are not in the same league.
Dear Philip:
Is there any possibility of a test to the Sony NX100? It seems a versatile camera.
Thanks.
gentlemen, want to point out a possible design flaw in the new agdvx 200 from panasonic, for the 2nd time I am sending it back to bh video with a viewfinder problem. Anyone else hearing about this. Thinking about moving to the sony fs 5 instead,