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BlindBrick

What's the word for us from CES?

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Mpeg 4/AVC.
It's all streaming/file-based. The days of optical media are numbered. Like I said on Facebook approx a year ago, HD is dead, 2K is an "almost ran" format.
Get ready for 4K (and then 8 k in a decade +)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89_p3Lv7pZo&feature=g-all-u&context=G2eb396eFAAAAAeAAUAA
Found this small format camera interesting it has a heart rate monitor, g-force speed and altitude data that can be displayed in video.



What's weird is that this thing has been being test jumped and rumor of it hans't been running rampant. I can understand NDA's, but you'd think other people at the dz would have mentioned it.

-Blind
"If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

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http://www.slashgear.com/jvc-gy-hmq10-worlds-first-4k-handheld-camcorder-due-march-10208303/ This is about the only "new/cool/accessible thing" I found at CES this year that might interest skydivers.



Looks really cool but this quote "Priced at just under $5k" from that article prolly keeps it from being an option for most of us. [:/]

Thanks for letting us know what's coming though. It's great to have someone at the forefront of new technology that is looking at it from the same prospective that we are! B|

Thanks and Blue Skies,
Jason

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the test models weren't all that impressive for what we do. The image block movement isn't noticeably any better than a single lens movement system.

But heck, you can project your DZ logo on the forehead of a student during the jump (just kidding);)

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there's 2 new CXs with electronic steadyshot and 60/50 fr/sec recording (AVCHD ver.2), which should be nice for us, but they came with a great joke from Sony: they don't have filter threads!!! CX190 and CX210 (with an 'e" for Pal Europe.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/indepth/sony/announcements/new-sony-camcorder-lineup-revealed-ces
http://www.sony.co.uk/product/cam-high-definition-on-memory-stick/hdr-cx190e#pageType=TechnicalSpecs
http://www.sony.co.uk/product/cam-high-definition-on-memory-stick/hdr-cx210e#pageType=TechnicalSpecs

Anyway, electronic steadyshot is back and a box with filter thread will do...

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yes, but they're snap-in lens adapters. Sony has also changed how they're mounting lenses on the AVCHD lineup.

In these small cams, I have no interest in them outside of skydiving. Nothing really new/exciting there that works for us, IMO.
The CX190, I have worked with already.

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but the 50/60 frames a second doesn't make a big difference for us or I dreaming? when there's movement, people crossing the frame, shooting without wide angle...
About the adapter: I can see in the cx250/260 and up models some kind of bayonet, but in the basic models 190/200/210 looks like there's nothing.
Thanks.

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Gus, someone that shoots without wide would certainly find the lower models useful, if you don't mind the very high compression ratio (I think most don't, based on the popularity of the really poor cameras out there), but for tandem, fourway, and general shooting of friends, I guess I didn't look at them as useful.

Frames per second is nice, sure. But it only contributes marginally to smoothness of movement, so outside of slowing the footage, I'm not sure where the real value comes in.

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How about the Balanced Optical SteadyShot?
Clip on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VphxfCXu984
Added to the “hated” OIS it looks like the whole lens is suspended in a gimball like solution (gyroscopic), it would be nice to check/test how this new Balanced Optical SteadyShot handles freefall situations (belly and free fly of course).

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