Omega Broadcast: AG-HPX600 original P2 files on MediaFire

[Allan Barnwell]

We shot a jazz performance and posted this to YouTube:
Panasonic AG-HPX600 Jazz Concert - YouTube

This is a zipped 489MB download of a P2 card so you can check out the original footage:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0ryvde63dfyvh00

There are 10 short clips including a swish pan.

We have new and Bstock cameras in stock ready to ship:
Omega - Online Store - AG-HPX600

[Glen Vandermolen]

Nice! Finally, some video from this camera.

[Konstantin Kovalev]

Awesome, I'm downloading it right now. Street price is pretty good at $13,300; B&H also lists the camera + VF at 15,500 which is pretty reasonable compared to the PMW350. Then again, the PMW also comes with an OEM lens, while the 600 requires you to bring your own... will eng lenses ever come down in price? A camera like this really needs a nice lens, but these days "nice" means more than the camera lol.

[Konstantin Kovalev]

Update: Ok, so I checked out the clips in Premier and I'm surprised to find that the picture doesn't look significantly better than my 370. There is still softness to fine detail and still some noise running around in the shadows; very little skew though!
I guess the large sensor makes for a narrower depth of field, and is perhaps more sensitive, but it's not as big a jump as I would've expected.

I'm starting to think that the 3100 is a better idea, due to CCD's, more control over image, etc. Allan, do you have access to both cameras so that you can give an objective view of the differences?

[Gary Nattrass]

Can hardly say I had the wow factor and the you tube footage is pretty much what I would expect from my HPX371.

I am not sure where this camera fits in yet and it may have been better to go for a 3x 2/3" cmos design rather than a single chip.