Nice Simon,

I enjoy your work. With you all the way I have never owned a CMOS that could compare to the PMW500 CCD, not even close. But I am sure there will be people who will put up specs and tell me I am wrong, fine they have their opinion. But if I could trade my C300 and all my 10 Canon L glass for my 500 and Fujinon I would do it in a second.

I WILL come visit in the near future. Have Fun with Fall in the air in OZ.

Thanks for the kind words mate. When you get here we should catchup?

And frankly, if you think you are going to find operators that can do tight follow on a ball receiver with a S35 sized sensor at full telephoto, you're kidding yourself.

Horses for courses.

2/3" is alive and well.

I read that an imagined my frustration at pulling focus on a running back at full speed coming toward me while running end zone cam in the evenings when shooting borderline wide open.

/shudder

You will be one of the fist to know Simon when I head to OZ.

My pre-order for this camera is already open for some time. With an expected launchdate of august 2013 I would have loved it if Sony would have brought this PMW-400 to the European market before the IBC but it seems the're just not gonna make that. Though, B&H shows the PMW-400K in stock. Is there already someone with first experiences? Curious...

This camera does NOT have a waveform. Correct? I see it has a histogram.

Now this has been a quite thread for a while. I am interested in PMW-400 owners and their experience with the camera?

Also I read, but can't find it anywhere now, that you can buy PMW-400 with a 14x lens and have OS. Is this true?

...Re 500 vs 400. I always liked the image quality from the 350, there is something more organic about the 350 pictures that I prefer over the PMW-500. That's a personal choice and not everyone will agree. In terms of sensitivity, noise and dynamic range the 350 and 500 are very close and I suspect the 400 will be no different.

Interesting... I know the noise level of the PMW350 (CMOS) and PDW700 (CCD) and I personaly prefer the PDW700 quality. But I'm not an operator of these cameras so I don't know which setup was used. I also don't know the quality of PMW500.