Paul Osborne
September 15th, 2009, 06:59 AM
Hi,
I am thinking of buying this camera, but need advice. I currently shoot with a Z7, sometimes with digital extender in - live Ice Hockey pumped up to a 4:3 video wall. I don't record anything unless it is a goal or action, and then I hit record to send the 14 second cache to the CF card.... and then the clever bit - I use the CF recorder unit to playback that clip, or indeed any of the previous clips up to the videowall to show instant review...often within 10 seconds of the goal.
But I need a lower cost replacement for the Z7 (I use the Z7 elsewhere). So I need a Sony HDV camera with ability to work with the MRC1 CF recorder via firewire. So this new camera needs external control and compatibility with the CF recorder, Digital extender and a decent longish lens. It also needs some gamma adjustment to compensate for ice, and the inadequacies of the videowall. I need manual zoom too -hockey is too fast for powered rockers.. Manual focus and manual exposure is important, although that does not need a specific button, nor iris wheel/ring. Playback from the CF recorder, via firewire thru' to the camera is essential, as the composite out is the only way to feed the videowall.
Does the HD1000 fit the bill? I have around £1100 to playwith..otherwise this project is unviable. I'd quite like a used FX1000, or even FX7 - but that is outside the budget, and I don't know if it supports the CF recorder (ie... does it external record AND playback?) A Z1 would fit the bill, but is old style - I can get a cheap FX1, but is the difference between it and a Z1 that the FX1 does not do external record? Sony seem to say that only the Z7, Z5, Z1, A1, V1 support the CF recorder... only the first 2 are newer CMOS cameras.
I am thinking of buying this camera, but need advice. I currently shoot with a Z7, sometimes with digital extender in - live Ice Hockey pumped up to a 4:3 video wall. I don't record anything unless it is a goal or action, and then I hit record to send the 14 second cache to the CF card.... and then the clever bit - I use the CF recorder unit to playback that clip, or indeed any of the previous clips up to the videowall to show instant review...often within 10 seconds of the goal.
But I need a lower cost replacement for the Z7 (I use the Z7 elsewhere). So I need a Sony HDV camera with ability to work with the MRC1 CF recorder via firewire. So this new camera needs external control and compatibility with the CF recorder, Digital extender and a decent longish lens. It also needs some gamma adjustment to compensate for ice, and the inadequacies of the videowall. I need manual zoom too -hockey is too fast for powered rockers.. Manual focus and manual exposure is important, although that does not need a specific button, nor iris wheel/ring. Playback from the CF recorder, via firewire thru' to the camera is essential, as the composite out is the only way to feed the videowall.
Does the HD1000 fit the bill? I have around £1100 to playwith..otherwise this project is unviable. I'd quite like a used FX1000, or even FX7 - but that is outside the budget, and I don't know if it supports the CF recorder (ie... does it external record AND playback?) A Z1 would fit the bill, but is old style - I can get a cheap FX1, but is the difference between it and a Z1 that the FX1 does not do external record? Sony seem to say that only the Z7, Z5, Z1, A1, V1 support the CF recorder... only the first 2 are newer CMOS cameras.