Finally Got my XH-A1 today! at DVinfo.net

John L. Miller · May 16th, 2007, 09:13 PM

After all my questions and probing around, I finally received my Brand New XH-A1 today. I have only powered it up to set the date and time. I plan to play with it more tomorrow. I had to sell both my Canon XL2 cams to get this one, but I had enough left to buy a very nice crane Jib outfit with Lanc Controller, monitor, cables etc. I also ordered a Letus35 Flip Enhanced, and about 4 Nikon Nikkor lenses. I had really just gotten used to using the XL2 camera, it looks as though there are many similarities with this and the XL2, but there are many differences also. I will have to start all over. Seems like I read in here that the camera would ONLY recognize 20 given presets on an SD card, no matter how many you have loaded on the card. I assume it is a safe bet to just put any extras on another SD card. Is there a limit the size of the SD card that can be used? The one that came with it is 16mb, I happen to have a 1 Gig laying around here, I know the additional space won't mean anything, but it should still function ok, right? Thanks and I cannot wait to begin with this beautiful new camera! J

Mike Gorski · May 16th, 2007, 09:18 PM

Nice, I wish I had enough to purchase one this moment! Enjoy it.

Maksim Yankovskiy · May 16th, 2007, 09:45 PM

The camera has SD HC (high capacity) markings on the battery compartment door, so you should be fine with 1G card.

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Originally Posted by John L. Miller

. Is there a limit the size of the SD card that can be used?

Dearl Golden · May 16th, 2007, 09:49 PM

I use a Sandisk 2GB Ultra II card. Wasn't much more than the 1GB card and I have more than enough there for quickie digital still shots. Works great.

Gert Kracht · May 17th, 2007, 02:27 PM

Congratulations with your new 'toy' ;-)

Considering the low price of the 2Gb, I also got one with my A1.
The card has space enough to handle a lot of preset files combined with photo's.
Now and then i make photo's in between and store them on the SD card.
2 Gb is more than enough for a few hundred photo's.

Steven Cowie · May 17th, 2007, 02:54 PM

Even if you weren't planning on taking stills with the camera a decent sized card is always worthwhile - theres the feature of being able to take still images while shooting and have the camera save both a custom preset file and a text file of the custom settings being used while you were taking them (handy if you're out and about while trying various tweaks of the custom presets)

custom function 8 (simultaneous record) option 02 (still + CP data)

May 16th, 2007, 09:13 PM	#1
John L. Miller Major Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Huntington, WV Posts: 260	Finally Got my XH-A1 today! After all my questions and probing around, I finally received my Brand New XH-A1 today. I have only powered it up to set the date and time. I plan to play with it more tomorrow. I had to sell both my Canon XL2 cams to get this one, but I had enough left to buy a very nice crane Jib outfit with Lanc Controller, monitor, cables etc. I also ordered a Letus35 Flip Enhanced, and about 4 Nikon Nikkor lenses. I had really just gotten used to using the XL2 camera, it looks as though there are many similarities with this and the XL2, but there are many differences also. I will have to start all over. Seems like I read in here that the camera would ONLY recognize 20 given presets on an SD card, no matter how many you have loaded on the card. I assume it is a safe bet to just put any extras on another SD card. Is there a limit the size of the SD card that can be used? The one that came with it is 16mb, I happen to have a 1 Gig laying around here, I know the additional space won't mean anything, but it should still function ok, right? Thanks and I cannot wait to begin with this beautiful new camera! J

May 17th, 2007, 02:54 PM	#6
Steven Cowie Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Glasgow United Kingdom Posts: 32	Even if you weren't planning on taking stills with the camera a decent sized card is always worthwhile - theres the feature of being able to take still images while shooting and have the camera save both a custom preset file and a text file of the custom settings being used while you were taking them (handy if you're out and about while trying various tweaks of the custom presets) custom function 8 (simultaneous record) option 02 (still + CP data) Last edited by Steven Cowie; May 17th, 2007 at 03:20 PM. Reason: extra info

May 16th, 2007, 09:18 PM	#2
Mike Gorski Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Hermosa Beach, CA Posts: 163	Nice, I wish I had enough to purchase one this moment! Enjoy it.

May 16th, 2007, 09:49 PM	#4
Dearl Golden Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Gallatin, TN Posts: 147	I use a Sandisk 2GB Ultra II card. Wasn't much more than the 1GB card and I have more than enough there for quickie digital still shots. Works great.

May 17th, 2007, 02:27 PM	#5
Gert Kracht Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Ens, The Netherlands Posts: 198	Congratulations with your new 'toy' ;-) Considering the low price of the 2Gb, I also got one with my A1. The card has space enough to handle a lot of preset files combined with photo's. Now and then i make photo's in between and store them on the SD card. 2 Gb is more than enough for a few hundred photo's.