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Will Panasonic follow suit and produce a cam with a super 35mm sized sensor?

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Stuart English said:
There is a reason that Scarlet offers a 2/3" model (two actually) and that's because 2/3" optics complement 35mm optics.

Different use cases, different needs, different customers; also 2/3" doesn't automatically mean Electronic News Gathering....
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Completely.....

We need both 2/3 and S35 options here for our work which is mostly high end TV.
 
Andrae Palmer said:
I share your sentiments on this one. In many off the grid situations using a tape based camera is also advantageous.



I was thinking the same. Due to the data rates it would have to be something comparable to HDCAM-SR. What if it used LTO4 tapes?
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LTO4 is our prefered back up and archive format. Its really good with BRU and catDV. I just wish some one would build an LTO4 drive with some interface's fitted to off the shelf laptops for easy deployment in the field.
 
Dave Blackham said:
LTO4 is our prefered back up and archive format. Its really good with BRU and catDV. I just wish some one would build an LTO4 drive with some interface's fitted to off the shelf laptops for easy deployment in the field.
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That would be the drives from Cache-A: http://www.cache-a.com/

Any computer on the local network can access the drive for archive and backup.
They're quite expensive, but on the other hand you don't need to buy a SCSI or SAS card.
And if you have filled all the slots in the MacPro like me, you can write to LTO4 without an extra computer or a PCIe expansion solution like Magma.
 
David Mullen ASC said:
From their perspective, there is no reason to be first, they can just keep making money on their professional ENG/EFP 2/3" cameras and wait until the business model for 35mm digital cine cameras is solved by Sony, and then step in with a competing model. In the meantime, they can let everyone else spend millions trying to get 35mm video to take off.
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--And not to mention that they sell more HVX-200/170 etc cameras than Toro sells lawnmowers, and those are extremely cheap to produce, with 960X540 sensors, lenses with servo spinny rings and not even a deck on some models. They can crank em out like McDonald's cranks out cheeseburgers and make scads of profit.
 
Zakaree Sandberg said:
I would rather electrocute myself than shoot broadcast situations (reality tv, sports, news) with a RED ONE or any digital cinema camera.. 2/3 cameras arent going ANYWHERE
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I am keeping my JVC GY-HD110 even though I am going to purchase a Scarlet.
Much as I will love shooting with it, it simply won't be practical for about 30 to 40 percent of my gigs, except for maybe some interesting B-roll.
 
This thread was started in 2009, It's now 2012 and Panasonic is still sitting on the sidelines in the s35mm market, most one hour tv dramas that were using panasonic cameras have switched to the Arri Alexa and now the Epic. I totally thought they would have an answer by now to the Sony F3, f35, Arri Alexa and now the Red Epic and the Sony f65. I guess I was wrong.
 
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