XH-G1/G1S + nanoFlash anyone?

[Jack Zhang]

I'm planning to get this combo within the next year and a half and I just want to know if anyone has attempted this or even have raw footage shot with this combo?

If you do have it, how do you deal with batteries to power both the nanoFlash and the XH-G1/G1S?

The CMOS tapeless cameras are not something I'm privvy to. I despise the rolling shutter. Unless affordable global shutters come to CMOS sensors, I'm sticking to CCDs.

[Jack Zhang]

Over a week without anyone coming forward, so I'm guessing that's a no then...

Another question, will REC RUN timecode run without a tape? Meaning I hit the VTR button and the timecode starts running and that will be the REC trigger for the nanoFlash.

[Simon Wood]

I have a n XLH1 + nanoflash. There is no reason why the XH-G1/G1S with nanoflash should not be the same as the XLH1 / H1s with the nanoflash. Just make sure the camera has the hd/sdi jack pack.

You would need to buy extra batteries for the nanoflash. I velcro my batteries to the rear side of the nanoflash. I attach my nanoflash to the accessory plate, with the G1 you would need to mount it to the hotshoe mount. This means you would need an sdi cable long enough to reach from the sdi out to the hotshoe area.

With the nanoflash you can choose whether to record with tape or to go completely tapeless. The nanoflash will make its own internal timecode if you are recording without tapes; you cant get timecode from the camera unless it is running a tape.

[Jack Zhang]

The G1/G1S does have a HD-SDI port and Timecode in/out. Unfortunately the remote connection is not on the G1 and G1S, so how do I trigger a recording with the camera's VTR button? Or do you have to do it a different way? (all these scenarios are without tape)

[Simon Wood]

If you are not running any tape then the nanoflash would not be able to receive any incoming timecode from the camera (the timecode is what is normally used to to trigger recording with the nanoflash - as soon as the tape starts rolling the nano starts recording).

If you are not using any tape at all then you would have to turn the auto power save function in the camera settings to off (otherwise the camera shuts down after x minutes of inactivity). Then you would set the nanoflash settings to internal timecode and manual record. To start filming you would then push the record button on the nanoflash, which would film the live signal from the camera and create its own timecode.

[Jack Zhang]

Darn. Was hoping with a TCG in the camera and no tape that I could just press the VTR button on the camera...

There's one less BNC to buy, but this also means the inconvenience of a VTR button on the Nanoflash rather than my camera. If there was a VTR button I could stick onto my camera's handle, that'd make it easier.

[Ronald Jackson]

Jack, did you ever get to try a nanoFlash on your G1S? Interested in how this combo works,


Ron