Client requests F900- Any tips on "selling them" on HDX-900?

Hello Panasonic folks,

I have owned a Panasonic HDX-900 for a year and a half and have had great results and acceptance by clients who want to use this camera. I have primarily a "shoot and ship" freelance business and have had an easy time of using the HDX-900 to mesh with almost every request to use with other cameras they may have used before.
In the last month I have gotten requests for the XDCAM and the F900 Sonys. The cross pitch for the using the HDX has been easier for the XDCAM since I can claim a better compression scheme and that I have profiled my camera using a Chroma Du Monde chart by DSC Labs. The F900 is a harder one and wondered if anybody had some strategies to share. One reason I choose the HDX was the 720/ 1080 ability and for the most part it has paid off. I get into a bit of a bind since the 1080i in the HDX900 is a cross conversion and I can't claim equal results to the Sony F900 (a beautiful camera-- too pricey for the demand here) .
Obviously none of us want to own a F900, HDX-900 AND one of the new XDCAMs-- simply too expensive. What do you do when you get a call for a camera you don't own? Rent or blow off the job? As far as I can gather no big rental houses have the XDCAMs right now.
Just looking to see what other freelancers are doing. What I tell potential customers now is that with the cost and selection of cameras they need to decide what output format they want and use the camera that they can find in each local market-- I am in New Orleans and there is an F900 available here, but no XDCAM. How about your markets?

The big frustration here is that the national cable channel that asked for the F900 had used me with the HDX-900 several times in the last year and I can only surmise that the F900 is the flavor of the month-- I know they have tried everything from the Z1U on up in the last few months... Jeesh!

Thank you,
George

George Griswold
www.videonow.info
New Orleans, Louisiana