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July 8th, 2012, 10:08 AM
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The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
Looking around on B&H last night I see the Canon XH-A1S is now 'discontinued'.... wonder if this is a mistake or really true... :(
A truely remarkable camera.... even though its tape... it still has its place.... maybe sales dropped off to the point where it was no longer worth it?
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July 8th, 2012, 05:49 PM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
In Belgium there is only one online store that thas the xh-a1s in stock at a reduced price which is a bit cheaper then a sony nx30 f.i. Although you get much more camera for that price I would choose the small sony over the xh-a1 if I had to choose today.
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July 9th, 2012, 01:30 AM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
if i was a mechanic, i'd hot rod an XH-A1 with an XA10 or XF engine and paint a racing stripe on the side. and put some mags on. and fuzzy dice...
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July 9th, 2012, 06:47 AM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
Technology marches on. I'm sure there's zero demand for tape based cameras right now.
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July 9th, 2012, 09:17 AM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
The store I mentioned also has several other tapebased camera's in stock, like the fx1000, z5, z7, xl-h1, xh-g1.. but they all are at a very high pricepoint, quite stupid if you see that their replacements cost the same or sometimes less, I don't think anyone with the cash will be spending that much on 4 to 6 year old technology. All other known videostores have cleared their shelves and only new models are available now.
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July 9th, 2012, 03:25 PM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
well I will be hanging on to my Two Xh-a1 cameras for as long as I can, I still love them and the fact that they are CCD is a bonus. they still capture stunning footage.
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July 9th, 2012, 03:48 PM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
The Canon XH cameras are still listed on the Canon USA web site.
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July 9th, 2012, 07:33 PM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
I wonder if B&H made a mistake then... ???
I too love my pair of XH-A1S cameras.... they produce stunning footage in trained hands...
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September 25th, 2012, 04:44 PM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
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But because of the huge demand in third world countries, magnetic tape itself will be around for quite a while yet. Last year in Capetown South Africa, I saw a retail music shop with a giant wall of music audio cassettes opposite a medium size wall of CDs and CDroms, those were mostly home grown. DVDs not so much. Cheers.
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September 26th, 2012, 05:25 AM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
The XH-A1s, XH-G1s, Vixia HV40, and GL2 are still listed as current products on Canon's USA web page (CANONDV.COM).
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September 27th, 2012, 04:55 PM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
From my research the XH-A1 has no fantastic replacement that is cost effective and does the job exceptionally well. Sad!
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September 27th, 2012, 05:02 PM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
The xf100 is close in price compared to what the xh-a1 was, eventhough it has a better image, a better codec, it lacks too many controls the xh-a1 has, next in line is the xf300 which has all the bells and whistles but that's twice the price. My guess is that Canon will release a xf200 one day (sounds logical too me) that could be a worthy replacement but probably be quite expensive still.
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September 28th, 2012, 02:13 AM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
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That's what the manufacturers project all their marketing for. One day they might say, 'we give up, we can't get a better picture, sorry it's all over. What will they/we do then? One thing would be to write better scripts, I wish. Cheers.
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September 28th, 2012, 05:40 AM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
An XF200 - now there is a thought - a camcorder with two sensors (not one or three), one for the luma, the other with filters for the chroma - physical 422!
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November 5th, 2012, 04:38 PM
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Re: The end of an era... XH-A1S discontinued?
I am a huge fan of my XH-A1 (I have two of them actually.)
I know someday I will have to get something else, but I'm good for a while longer. I'm curious about the compatibility of XH-A1 tapes with other decks? As I've understood things all my tapes should just fine in other HDV desk/cameras witht he exception of my 24p tapes which will only play in a Canon desk/camera. Does that sound right? Last edited by Charlie Durand; November 5th, 2012 at 04:39 PM. Reason: fixed typos |
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