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Gooday All

I am now seriously looking at the Sony HXRNX5P. At about $6k it is affordable for me (I was looking at the Sony EX3, but the $11.5k price made me stop and think)

I am interested to hear what the techos at BVMA think.

cheers

Hi Ross,
Good to hear from you again.

I know nothing about the Sony HXRNX5P, but I'm concerned about the CMOS sensors. They still aren't as good as CCD for video, although they are getting better. They will falter and give poor images with fast action or pans. I'm currently looking at upgrading and my preferred option at the moment is the JVC-HM100E. There is a special on at the moment at just under $5k including 2 16gig sd cards and 2 extra batteries (3 in all). It is a 3 CCD camera although they are 1/4 inch sensors. It also has XRL mic inputs and the deal includes an xlr mic.

CMOS are perfectly good in DSLR cameras but they aren't handling fast moving images all that well.

Cheers
Rod

Rod

had a look at the manual for the JVC camera and noticed the following in it saying it is intended for private consumer use only and commercial use without proper permission is forbidden (page 6 in the manual)

cheers

Hi Ross,

That's simply a disclaimer as protection against breach of copyright. It doesn't refer, I believe, to the camera use, simply that if you record an event you need to permission from the sponsor of the event, not from JVC.

What did you think otherwise.

Rod

Gooday Rod

I was advised by a salesman from a major brisbane video equip supplier that I should be thinking more of the lines of a Sony EX1 that the HXRNX59. So I have been looking at prices.

The nett result is that I started to look at overseas pricing - A Sony EX3 that costs $11.5k locally can be purchased for
$7.8k in Singapore add 10% GST and that is $8.6k add a couple hundred $$$ freight and insurance and that is under $9k.

That is with a 4-year international warranty as opposed to a 1 year local warranty.

You are left with the judgement is a local warranty worth $2.5k.

this is where I get stuck, I can't make up my mind - have I overlooked something??

cheers

Just a couple of things.

Make sure its Pal and check if the warranty will be recognised in Australia. I haven't had direct experience but I've been told that Int Warranties are a bit dicey.

One other point. Is the net dealer reliable?

At the end of the day $2.5 K is quite a saving, so long as you get the goods.

Rod

Rod

Being a professional camera it does both NTSC and PAL. With regards to the warranty - its a judgement call, $2.5k is a lot of repairs and its only a 1 year warranty in Australia against a 4 year warranty. I friend of mine recently had to make a warranty claim agaings a very well known professional DSLR company and found that unless you can prove it was a manfacturing defect, you had to pay (which he did and it cost him $700).

Its very difficult to decide, so far I have decided to do nothing because I can't decide - if you get the point.

What it boils down to is prices in Australia are far to high, someone is making a lot of money. These cameras are identical. The world now operates on an international basis and local suppliers will have to learn how to compete or stand clear!

The other point is how reliable and what quality control does Sony have. I believe it is very good in which case the warranty plays an even less important role in the decision because you never have to make a claim.

One vendor is in NZ, another is in Singapore and the third is in Melbourne - all are $1000+ cheaper than the local vendor.

Hello,

I've got the HXR-NX5P last month and I'm quite happy with the camera.
There's no doubt that EXCam can produce better image but it was out of my budget.
The NXCam records 1920X1080 full raster image unlike HDV's 1440X1080. The AVCHD codec insures good compression with fairly low image loss.
I Avid Media Composer user. It doesn't support AVCHD directly at the moment and I need to transcode the footage with TMPGEnc but Avid will release
Avid Media Composer 5 soon and it supports AVCHD native editing. No more transcoding! Yay!!!
I'd say overall performance of NX5 is very good. Both memory stick and SD card supported, 20X Zoom, SDI output, Timecode in and various outputs.
It's good choice for serious videographer.
If you have any question, PM please.

Jeongsoo