Steve Gibbons
July 28th, 2008, 09:27 AM
For those interested...
We just took delivery of our Sony PMW-EX30 deck for SxS cards. I'm just about to set it up - I'm happy to see it comes with a remote.
I'll post some more followup observations soon.
SG
UPDATE 1: Just running some file copy tests off our network. Getting 12MB/s writing to a loaded SxS card from a network folder using the USB connection to a PC. This compared to 16MB/s when writing to the ExpressCard slot of our HP Mini-Note notebook PC. Reading from the EX30 to the same RAID-5 network drive on a Gigabit network is showing around 18MB/s while reading from the HP Mini-Notes ExpressCard drive shows 32MB/s.
UPDATE 2: Well all seems right with the new unit - it does what it should. One quibble - there doesn't appear to be a way to disconnect the USB connection without powering the unit down. And conversely, when you are powering the unit up and it is connected via USB - you are asked once if you want to establish a USB connection. If you say no initially and later want to - you have to power it off/on again. The built-in screen is very nice and sharp - maybe the same one from the EX1/EX3 cameras. The remote is actually from a camera (it says right on it) but works. The unit itself is small and surprisingly light. This would come in handy when powering off battery during a shoot and you have it mounted/located somewhere exotic.
We just took delivery of our Sony PMW-EX30 deck for SxS cards. I'm just about to set it up - I'm happy to see it comes with a remote.
I'll post some more followup observations soon.
SG
UPDATE 1: Just running some file copy tests off our network. Getting 12MB/s writing to a loaded SxS card from a network folder using the USB connection to a PC. This compared to 16MB/s when writing to the ExpressCard slot of our HP Mini-Note notebook PC. Reading from the EX30 to the same RAID-5 network drive on a Gigabit network is showing around 18MB/s while reading from the HP Mini-Notes ExpressCard drive shows 32MB/s.
UPDATE 2: Well all seems right with the new unit - it does what it should. One quibble - there doesn't appear to be a way to disconnect the USB connection without powering the unit down. And conversely, when you are powering the unit up and it is connected via USB - you are asked once if you want to establish a USB connection. If you say no initially and later want to - you have to power it off/on again. The built-in screen is very nice and sharp - maybe the same one from the EX1/EX3 cameras. The remote is actually from a camera (it says right on it) but works. The unit itself is small and surprisingly light. This would come in handy when powering off battery during a shoot and you have it mounted/located somewhere exotic.