New Sony DCR- VX3000

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7. I love the VX2000

Touch Screens ? No ! I have this on a TRV50 and hate it. Screen is smudged forever. Plus, these touch screens are more grainy than normal screen.

Mount for separate lenses ? Yes, would be nice.

Super Night Shot ? A gimmick to most but I use it for very very low light. I keep a TRV10 around just for this purpose.

Network functions ? Please, please keep these extras OFF my video camera.

Bluetooth ? The ONE wireless thing I might want to do is transfer video. However, this is the ONE thing Bluetooth doesn't do.

MicroMV ? We need another tape standard like a hole in the head. Affordable MiniDV recorders and decks haven't exactly flooded the market. Why introduce a new format ?

Viewfinder B&W ? If it offered higher resolution than current color VF, yes. Would make manually focusing easier.

Front lens 58 or 52mm ? Makes no difference to me. But bigger is better, right ?

Demonstration modes ? Another worthless feature except to equipment dealers.

-- John Gayman

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hi, I'm a filmmaker and own a sony TRV-700 digital camera, and have been thinking about purchasing a higher end camera along the lines of the XL1 or VX2000, 3000. I'm also very interested in this new High Definition technology, especially when lucas filmed episode 2 on the FW900. I was thinking, would it be possible to blend the two technologies together? Mini Digital Video and High Definition?

Good afternoon Sony Engineering people.
The most important feature of the VX3000 will be further improvement of the already "best of the prosumers" low light capability.

Other wishes are:

1. Please improve the VX2000/PD150 Optical Image Stabiliser to equal or preferably surpass the Canon XL1. I'd be prepared to tolerate a 10% (or maybe more) increased weight, if that was absolutely necessary for a significantly better OIS.

3. Ability to record 4 (12 bit) channels simultaneously, with individual level displays in the viewfinder (OK to switch display between each pair of channels).

4. Proscan ability - please double frame rate from 12.5 fps (PAL) to 25 fps.

While we're in a communications mode .......
a. Please make a sunshade for the Sony VCL-0758 0.7x WA converter - currently
an unfortunate omission.
b. DSR-250 replacement could do with a Li Ion option - allowing NPF-950/960's to be used with the larger VX body!!
Regards,
Hughy.

O Record Button on the handle, again, This would be a great Selling point.
O A regular lens like the vx1000, the vx2000 has the worst lens yet, Many skateboarders (im sure this isnt your main crowd your trying to get to buy, but we trash your cameras, so we know what needs to be fixed) Its the worst lens to work with the Century Optics .3X lens/Vx1000,Vx2000/Trv900,Pd150,Pd100, and GL1.

I have 2 Sony VX-2000 cameras, but I will not buy another. The only thing I will have in mind when I purchase my next camera is "does it shoot in 24 frame progressive mode" as the Panasonic DVX100 will. If several cameras have that feature by the time of purchase, I will then look at which shoots in 16x9 without compression. Thank you for soliciting this feedback

1) A *video* camera: No concessions to still camera operation, "MPEG4" etc which impair DV video operation or increase cost in any way, thankyou.
2) 25P true progressive PAL at 1/25 second exposure
3) Wider Field of view at wide - say 30-32mm 35mm equivalent, even at the expense of zoom range (Like DVX100).
4) Control over gamma, sharpening, colour balance in camera, with user presets
5) Multiple while balance presets: Cloudy, incandescent, flourescent plus direct entry of colour temperature.
6) Reduced size (particularly reduced length) - more like VX1000 or GL1/XM1, please. Side screen doesn't need to be big, just bright & high-resolution.
7) Even better image stabiliser.
8) Frame-accurate location of end of tape, without using memory tapes (Panasonic can do this, but maybe it's Sony's policy not to).
Regards,
John Vickers

Being in the middle of a feature, here's what SONY could change for me: Get rid of the damned edge enhancement altogether. Just loose it. Out. Give us some true progressive scan that does not kill resolution as much, especially at 1/30th. And it would be good if there were true 16X9 CCDs on there.. Also good mic inputs under the camera, and not on top of the lens where the cords get tangled and in the way. I know there's been some good color contrast improvements recently - so that we'd have to worry less about blown out windows. It's like shooting old-fashioned reversal stock.
No edge enhancement. No edge enhancement.
John Palisano

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24 fps for NTSC with built in FILM LOOK ENHANCEMENT.
Thomas Defender

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Want: Continuously variable manual iris control. (Do away with the current systems that moves in steps.) Non-servo lens to aid in manual focusing. (Still cameras are able to do auto focus with a non-servo lens.)
Buddy Frazer

Audio line inputs! Bypassing all the AGC/ mic pre crap! It'll solve a lot of
True widescreen 1/3 chip (like its big brother the 2/3 chip) - no more digital squeezing
a better lens
24 fps switchable
longer tape capacity
a zoom with a adjustable sensitivity & speed.
better matrix metering.

We should shoot for things like:
Removable bayonet-mount lenses
Full 30-FPS Proscan
At least 1.2 megapixel still resolution
Larger viewfinder
XLR I/O
Super NightShot
20x optical zoom
& other things of this nature. Forget if they add a pound or two.

I'd like: a true widescreen 1/3 chip (like its big brother the 2/3 chip) - no more digital squeezing

A better lens:
> Well, the VX2000 lens appears to be diffraction-limited by about f4, and good to the corners and close to the f4 performance even wide open (see:
www.ferrario.com/ruether/diffraction.htm ), with excellent color, contrast, and freedom from flare, so I assume you mean better zoom control? Wider zooming range? Or...?
>Answer: No. I really meant a better lens - sharper, higher resolution, more
contrast. Lens quality is the bigest limiting factor on 1/3 chip cameras.
The Fuji & Canon lenses used bradcast camersa (1/2 & 2/3 chips) are vastly
superior.

A zoom with a adjustable sensitivity & speed.

Though the present zoom ring permits accelerated/ decelerated zooming from "0", it is very hard to maintain zooming speed for very long; the rocker makes this easy, but has abrupt starts/stops; it would be nice to have the rocker have the advantages of both, with maybe a zoom rate selector added...

Better matrix metering.

I've been happy with the VX2000 auto exposure (modified when necessary by use of the AE-bias or lock-and-shift controls), but any *real* improvement in metering is welcome ("matrix" metering has only recently advanced to the point where it is useful for other than negative materials - in the past, it was a "when in doubt, overexpose" system, only suitable for negative materials and not positives like slides and video).
I would like to see: better stabilization of the VX2000 lens when zoomed long (without spoiling the excellent short-end stabilization, which does not now have the common "bouncing ball" effect problem, or the "swimming" problem when used with a tripod);
a bit smaller overall package size, if practical; a quieter mic preamp (if for no other practical reason than to quiet the complaints over this VX2000 non-issue...;-); and an accessory XLR adapter that uses the hot shoe (like on the GL-2), and has variable padding for each input (preferably in several fixed, accurate increments [I would like this padding also available for the mini-plug inputs, to best match the mic sensitivities to the currently-excellent AGC]).
David Ruether

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UNCOMPRESSED 720x480 Frames
1440x960 DV or HD
ANY frame rate up to 60FPS
FULL MANUAL LENSES switchable.
Hi Rez viewfinder.
TRUE 16:9
TRUE Progressive.
Completely user configurable power standby.
internal 60Gig mini HD removable.
Full XLR Balanced Audio with 16/48 or 24/96 4 channel audio. With DSP onboard.
oh yeah.. it's gotta fit in my pocket. :-)

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Re-design the built in mic preamp.
XLR inputs
24p

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NO

Interesting...#2 was less weight,
I personally find the weight to be just fine. I appreciate a camera that doesn't feel like puffed plastic. A lot of people, especially shoulder mount users, actually add weight (bigger batteries) to use as a counterbalance. I found that using a larger, heavier lens and battery actually helped me produce smoother shoulder mounted shots with my other camera. Of course, this poll is for a VX2k replacement, so I guess they assume hand holding... I just really prefer a solid piece of gear over light and flimsy. But then again, I like older cars too.
(RE: We did mean holding by hand is just a bit too heavy. Remember we often add shotgun mic filterholder and fat battery! A less weight camera one can always make heavier, never lighter! )

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Giving the successor of world famous VX2000
a new name will give Sony headaches.