Just spent the last 4 days with this camcorder in some very challenging and comparative situations alongside an EX.
Very, very impressed. Almost as good in low light as the EX, but more importantly, it does more than the EX. I love my EX, love SxS, but shooting to CF card with the 270 simply rocks.
Sony manual says you must use their CF cards due to speed, but this simply isn't so. We shot on 16GB CF with no problems at all. We also shot to some really junky and old 4GB CF cards that didn't meet the speed test, and all that was different was the buffer time, but it still recorded fine.
Stock lens is very sweet when cost is considered.
Sony did a damn fine job on this cam.
Look for a review sooner than later.
Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST
Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor
Re: HVR S270 by Marius Boruch on Mar 13, 2008 at 12:26:18 pm
DSE,
I am kind of lost here; in Sony release it says that Z7u/S270 "create true 1080P images, which
can then be recorded as native progressive signals by the HVR-Z7U and HVR-S270U
camcorders in the HDV format. The progressive HDV streams can be output from an i.LINK
connector and used for progressive editing with compatible NLE software.
If I film using Z7U and transfer it to Vegas via ILink as an HDV, how can I (after editing) produce 1080P material??? for distribution to cable stations, Tv etc...
What would be the difference then btwn ex1 - solid state memory and better low light only??? Please help. Thanks in advance.
