Again just one card slot which for me is a must to have some sort of backup. The one I am after can have a carry handle fixed in top not only with an LED light but more important keeping a microphone away from the camera body so it doesn’t pick up relevent noise from it.
Wind noise rumble sound is the death of any camcorder video, so a good microphone with a decent deadcat helps.
The only problem for you with the $899 is the single SD card but it can sync up to three devices it has stereo microphone input for use with or without deadcat. Sound can be recorded separately on a better device and added in post production anyway.
Personally I have never had an SD card fail but I do replace them fairly regularly they are dirt cheap.
Neither did I until recently , I had a Sandisk SD card fall apart, lucky nothing on it but it made me think. Hence wanting a doubled slot camcorder. My next holiday hopefully, covid permitting, costs us several thousands of £, part of which is being paid for by the holiday company, and been saving for 2 years for it So I don’t want to go only to find the memory card failed.
Can’t sync it up on holiday
Surely it would be a lot cheaper buying a dozen C10 64Gb micro SD cards (what? £50 for 10 quality cards?), swapping them out on a daily basis (and backing the contents up to a HDD) than spending an extra £1000 on a camera just to get two SD slots?
Not that I use 64Gb cards - 32Gb in my cameras and dashcam but if you record in 4K perhaps you need to go to 64Gb. I only use 32Gb in my cameras because it is harder to get smaller ones.
Bruce I use 64GB cards now and going up to 128GB as 4K camcorders are big files. As you know GB card size is not the be all and end all . I am working with 128 GB 170mb’s class 10 SD cards so I don’t get any buffering
Bruce this is a bit technical but will try and explain
This new Panasonic HC-X1500 has several different file formats to choose from
one is MOV (hevc) which allows 4K recording at 200mbps among other file formats.
These are huge files so need “reducing” to put in simple terms without quality loss.
So decided to buy, and have done, bought a converter program"videoProc" as it is on special Christmas offer at half price together with a disc incase I loose the download. As I already have some MOV file format videos I can now play around and work on them. Also convert to many different formats with this program
Then it may be quicker and easier to edit if necessary with Adobe premier Elements video editing suite.
Well that is the plan for this year
Yes I am familiar with .MOV format, its a “container” format like MKV but created and owned by Apple in the 1990s (I think - it has been around for a long time) and therefore propriety but quite bulky.
Free software like VLC or Handbrake can convert it to MP4 which is an international standard.
I have VCL editing suite but it is so inflexable compared to what I already use (adobe premier elements).
The Sony didn’t reach the reserve on ebay so re advertised it at a lower reserve. Managed to sell lots of bits and pieces that went as seperate items at more than I expected which allows the reduced reserve . If it doesn’t sell this time I will go the P/X route.
Correction just checked and it has sold
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Danny
Just ordered a panasonic HC-X-1500- VW-HUI handle and 128 sandisk SD card for £1577.97.
Then I have to take of about £500 (not to sure yet) from the sale of the Sony. So I recon I got a bargain in the winter sales
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That’s a serious bit of kit. What kind of projects have you got in mind or is this for work?
HI
taking things step by step the first is learning my way around it. That will take up most of my time to start with
I suppose the main project for this year is our fly/ cruise going back to Norway and on to the Fareo Isles then Iceland. We have a lot of places of interest around her I would love to have a go at doing more professional looking videos weather/covid permitting.
Shouldn’t take long at all I would imagine (I saw where you mentioned your old one, still a very nice bit of kit too). I remember from my days as a photographer, the hardest part of a new camera is getting used to the new shape in your hands, then just the little quirks about where things are in the menus. After that they are all much of a muchness I find. Hard part is waiting for that right shot and being ready.
I would love to get out to take some shots of the Northern Lights but cant see it happening for a while really. Maybe a trip to Scotland may have to suffice.
My first movie camera was one of these which I still have and works
photoed with small compact Lumix
my first camera was a Kodak 127 box brownie. Wow that is going back way into the past
So I already had a slight interest in the movie field of photograhy. started getting more into it when digital came along so it was the panasonic for 9/10 years until eventually it more of less gave up working without a complete stripdown and rebuild and costs prevented.
The Sony I think I might have had a bad copy because whatever I did I got juddering when pannng on whatever setting, never ever had that with the Panasonic. the family didn’t notice it so much but they gave no interest in the subject anyway.
So back to this new one when it comes. What I do like is havingg a proper handle and LED light, also being able to put a microphone on top away fron the camcorder.
Mine too. Though I don’t think “Box” was in the title, indeed it had quite rounded lines
My first movie camera was a standard 8 clockwork Bell and Howell with a three turret lens, my first camcorder was a Canon which used a tape I forget the name of the tape size (Mini DV comes to mind)
My favourite Camcorder is a Canon Legria FS37 unfortunately only Standard Definition otherwise i would still be using it, It has features I very much like.
I occasionally take movies with one or other of my compact cameras - similar to yours I think, a Panasonic DMC LX10 and a TZ110, they have different virtues. I have lost interest in video though I used to like it. At one stage I even had a 16mm film developing tank but I could only develop black and white film of course
The dash cam does sometimes provide footage i use
I can’t believe how empty your road are of traffic amazing.
guess where we are heading
Sydney traffic is just like any major city, I never drive there now. I prefer the road less traveled.