Sony offers the cleanest image, esp. with gain.

heath

Is this only going to be released in Europe? Is there any more information on this one?

Edit - NEver mind - found the info.

Maybe on their cameras with CCDs, but certainly not CMOS - the HC1/A1 absolutely fall apart at more than 3-6db. The HC3 seems a little better, but I still don't think it compares to an equivalent CCD. I'm assuming part of the reason for going with the lower res CMOS (versus the one used in the HC1/A1) is because it will allow for greater sensitivity with less gain in low light situations.

1 CCD falls apart, too, but 3 CDDs are great. So I'm guessing 3 CMOS will be great for low light, too.

heath

Sony probably found a way to use CMOS to make clean gain that puts it into vx2100 range.

http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news...ro+camera.html

here is more pics

You may be right, the gain on the FX1 is quite good, maybe it's even better with these new cams. I sure hope so, I'd love to stay with Sony. The PD/VX series has been fantastic.

We could expect an AVCHD cam coming soon with a 3CMOS and 1920x1080... and possibly true progressive and 1080p60

(sorry if this is a wishlist.)

Wow, seems to me Sony missed the mark on this one. Who's gonna buy it? The feature set is not attractive to the semi-pros; it's too expensive for the casual enthusiast. 1/4" CCDs. Non-native 16:9 chips? Why would they do that on a 16:9 format like HDV? MSRP $3500 (but it has to street for under $2800 or else people will just buy the FX1).

Let's see some innovation. I want a low-cost tapeless HD format. 4GB SD cards are cheap these days. Affordable 8, 16, 32GB cards can't be far away. Panasonic scored big on the HVX, and I think they'll do it again with AVC-Intra.

Link to more info:
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content...CMOS-Chips.htm

AVC, to Sony, is consumer-only.

HDV is tape-based only (with some exceptions, like FireStore and Sony's new digital capture device).

heath

You are starting to sound like me except that you forgot to say that it will have a blu-ray drive.

OK, I've hearby corrected myself... what about AVCPRO HD? (applies to Pany as well.)

So far it's not clear whether Panasonic will have the sense to use standard, affordable memory cards with AVCHD. If they do that's great; if not we'll continue to be stuck with various less than ideal choices. Sony needs to get a Blu-ray version of AVCHD to market asap.

They've announced they're going to use regular SD cards.

Both companies stated that as their goal (a mini-blu-ray recording medium).

Really? That's excellent news. Is that documented anywhere yet I can reference on the internet?