HDV FUTURE
I was at Best Buy yesterday and I saw this! The newest and cheapest in the line of recent HDV cameras on the market, the Sony HDR-HC1. This thing is tiny. Let me tell you that Japanese hand holding it on that image is tiny. The whole thing excepting the lens area fit into my hand.
So what makes this camera so great when there are so many others? Well, the price for one, but also its size and its digital still ability. This is a camera I would carry with me often. If you think about it, you wouldn't pick up your huge shoulder mounted Sony FX1 or Panasonic HV1 for a trip to the zoo. With this HDR-HC1, however, you can be off on a trip and shooting 1920x1440 still images as good as many still cameras, but also shooting 1080i full motion video!
Now, of course, we all know that I want to make movies. Well, I think this image from the HC1 shows that it will do just fine for that. Now it doesn't have any special 24P mode, though I think it may have Sony's cineframe capture ability like the FX1, but that is small thing considering why I will be buying it.
This is the all around camera. This is the replacement for what I have currently, the TRV9. This will fulfill all those purposes and take me into the realm of HDV. Since I now own Vegas Video as well, it will be the last chip in the replacement of my DV production pipeline.
Think about it. Cheap green screens are available all over the place online. A good camera, some FX wizardry. Can you see where this is going?
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