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Old November 14th, 2008, 02:38 AM   #61
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Wonder if it can do the #1 requested thing for the A1 - OIS on a custom button. :)
anybody know? i'm curious if Canon is 'listening'...
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Old November 14th, 2008, 06:09 PM   #62
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back in September I finally stepped up from my Sony HC1 and got a Canon XH-A1. Unfortunately, we had a fire at my house last month and my Xh-a1 was exposed badly to the heat and smoke. I had sent my xh-a1 to the canon factory service center and they just determined it "Beyond Economic Repair" from all the smoke damage. Now i need to decide if i want to get another used xh-a1 or perhaps get a new xh-a1s. I feel a lot more comfortable spending sub-$3k because of the level of my work with this cam, but i really like the ability to record to the hard drive also. I never want to go tapeless because i like the ease of archiving that tapes provide. This is a tough decision.

On a unrelated note, i also would like to replace my hc1 which also died in the fire. I'm thinking an HV20/HV30, but again, would love something that i could record to tape and also something like a hard drive or some sort of removable media, but i'm not sure if there's anything like this out there.
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Old November 14th, 2008, 07:25 PM   #63
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My next Canon HD camera will be the 5D Mark II DSLR..I can't wait to shoot some video with my 300mm 2.8L, 85mm 1.8, and 24-70mm 2.8L
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Old November 16th, 2008, 12:50 AM   #64
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Canon seem to be a bit shy about the side of the camera where the XLR inputs are. There are no photos of that side in their press release pictures...
Your wish is my command:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/canon-xh-...-vs-xh-g1.html
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Old November 16th, 2008, 04:17 PM   #65
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What do you think support for FS-CV DTE Recorder will be? Don't all cameras support this??
As long as Canon does not offer a solid state based camera, help yourself and attach Sony's MRC1K to the Canons' firewire ports.
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Old November 18th, 2008, 12:08 PM   #66
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According to the A1s manual I recently downloaded from Canon, OIS on/off CAN be assigned to custom button 1 or 2.

See page 73 in the US/English manual.
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Old November 18th, 2008, 12:34 PM   #67
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If that is the case I can only hope Canon will provide such an option through a firmware update for xh-a1 users.
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Old November 18th, 2008, 01:27 PM   #68
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I guess that's for the new S model only, right? Too bad we can't download something to do that on the original model.
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Old November 18th, 2008, 02:05 PM   #69
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According to the A1s manual I recently downloaded from Canon, OIS on/off CAN be assigned to custom button 1 or 2. See page 73 in the US/English manual.
Awesome! That's great news, which I had not expected. Thanks
for reporting this, as I haven't seen the manual yet. Good to know,
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Old November 18th, 2008, 02:07 PM   #70
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That is good to hear!

Although I will not be updating my current A1 for a while, when I do I will likely go to the A1s.
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