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igorstshirts

10-01-2004, 09:56 PM

The price will be $3700 when the camcorder goes on sale in the U.S. in November, says Masashi Imamura, senior general manager of Sony's IT & Mobile Solutions Network Company. The release day for the U.S. market in November has not been decided, but the camcorder will be on sale internationally by January 1 2005, he says.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117699,00.asp

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js33

10-01-2004, 11:17 PM

Yeah it's cool but has no 24p or progressive scan. I'll wait to see what Panasonic or Cannon come up with to counter it.

Cheers,
JS

halo

10-02-2004, 09:46 AM

surely those battery weights are wrong?

alphatron

10-02-2004, 04:41 PM

Here is a more technical preview:

http://home.earthlink.net/~dvcnyc/Sony%20HDR-FX1.htm

this site claims that according to Sony USA reps, you may be able to do a form of pulldown removal if you shoot in cineframe 24 mode, and actually get truly progressive frames at 24fps. The difference is that when shooting, the frames aren't sampled at 24 fps but 30, and every five frames a full frame is dropped. So you may get a different look than the traditional 24fps.

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