Re: Anyone know when the VariCam first became available?

Noah et al:

The AJ-HDC27A (NASA test camera (720p 29.97 / 59.94 only) camera was 2001, that evolved into the 27V (most frame rates available) in 2002, I was part of a documentary shoot called El Sueno in Cuba in 2002 and we used 27V cameras. The 27F all frame rates 1-60p and Film Rec gamma came in 2003?... That then became the 27H about three years ago.

The FCP / IEEE1394 came later, we used to have hardware based frame rate converters before the FRC module in FCP.

At NAB 2008, we announed our P2 VariCams, so the VariCam family lives on an grows!

Cheers!

Steve Mahrer - Panasonic