I have both PDW-700 and HPX-250. Even though the HPX is a newer camera I think the picture quality is really bad (noisy at 0db and not sharp). But the worst part is that a 64gb P2 card compared to a 50gb XDCAM disk is crazy expensive. 64gb P2 cost you used 220$ and 50gb XDCAM disk 15$. You can get up to 90 minutes (422 1080/25p) on 50gb XDCAM but only 70minutes (422 1080/25p) on one 64gb crazy expensive P2 card. Added up with the bad image quality compared to Sony, the HPX is a bad System.
I really love this cam more than any new cmos based cameras.
so you color correct it in post...
how does it compare to say a Panasonic HPX-250 in terms of picture quality? Thanks
I have both PDW-700 and HPX-250. Even though the HPX is a newer camera I think the picture quality is really bad (noisy at 0db and not sharp). But the worst part is that a 64gb P2 card compared to a 50gb XDCAM disk is crazy expensive. 64gb P2 cost you used 220$ and 50gb XDCAM disk 15$. You can get up to 90 minutes (422 1080/25p) on 50gb XDCAM but only 70minutes (422 1080/25p) on one 64gb crazy expensive P2 card. Added up with the bad image quality compared to Sony, the HPX is a bad System.
@@dabinielson thanks for you opinion
Rolling shutter, rolling shutter and.... Rolling shutter, oh did you see that? It was Flash banding!!! Yeah, buy the older version.