Thar she blows, JVC's first dip into the ever growing area of SSD HD cameras. A market which was been flooded in the past year by Sony's HDV and XDCAM alongside the original professional offerings from Panasonic's P2 platform.The biggest news on this model is native recording of native quicktime .mov files onto the SDHC card format - so there's even less transfer time as no transcoding needs to take place to get the files working in FCP. This is in comparison to the MPEG Transport Stream format that many of the other options in this market will write to. You'll also be interested to hear that this is the first model that JVC have released with SXS support, a few months ago we learnt that JVC and Sony were working together on the format - and here's the proof. It's not a standard feature on the camera, like the XDCAM EX range, but an add-on unit that you buy separately (Known as the KA-MR100 dockable media recorder) Allowing you to record the same video to both your SDHC and SXS cards providing an instant digital backup, this gives the camera a total current capacity of 128GB on-board memory. It also boasts an interchangeable lens system (1/3" Bayonet mount), HD & SD SDI, Component and XLR connectivity.
I'm looking forward to getting my hands on this camera and following up on the quality and ergonomics of the unit, which will hopefully happen at BVE next week, so I'll do a follow up with my thoughts when we're back. Meanwhile, check the links for the press release and full specifications:
Tech specs: http://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/specs.jsp?model_id=MDL101851&feature_id=03
Press release: http://news.creativecow.net/story/861284
