Panasonic HC-VX980 - Unboxing & quick test
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Unboxing the Panasonic HC-VC980 camcorder and doing a small comparative test against the tired old Canon Legria HF R46 that it's replacing.
In short, it's better. And it has a metal tripod mount. The worst part I've found out about it within the day I've owned it, is that EVERY SINGLE TIME you connect a microphone, it presents you with a screen-covering black box warning you that your microphone might show up in frame if it's too long. Hey, Panasonic? THAT'S FUCKING OBVIOUS. STOP MAKING ME PRESS "OK" TO USE MY MIC THAT'S NOT EVEN MOUNTED TO THE GOD DAMN CAMERA!
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Is there firmware available for this camera above 1.0? So far I have not found one, although there are updates available for many other cameras. Thanks for the reply!
I would recommend 1080p 60 going forward, sure 4k or 1440p would be nice but the frame-rate would make it look better.
I agree (although we're talking 1080p50). 4K source files are just giant behemoths that are really cumbersome to handle. Well over twice as big per unit time, and several times slower to render - and my current 1080p50 template already takes about 3 hours per 10 minutes to render. At 4K, we'd realistically be talking about render times in excess of 24 hours per video.
Go on live a little go for that extra 10 fps :P.
But yes , resolution is not everything, many people forget that.
Does it do 4.4.4 chroma ?
Andrew Joy I can't live a little - it's a PAL camera. It doesn't do your Murrkan 30/60FPS thing.
As for 4.4.4 chroma, I honestly don't know. I'm a novice when it comes to video formats and things of that nature.
FFcossag I am from the UK , there was 60fps pal for a short time , nothing supported it but it was awesome ! takes the only thing good about NTSC and butchers the pal standard :)
60fps might be a bad idea given the 50Hz of almost everything else in the room anyway.
Oh wow even the mic made it alot easyer for me to hear what your saying :)
The ability to use an external microphone is the biggest upgrade by far. It enables me to actually position the camera some distance behind me while keeping the microphone in front of me. A future upgrade is definitely going to be some kind of clip-on/headset type microphone (think Louis Rossman style).
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What is the part number for the UK charger? May want to purchase one for my old panasonic camera. Thanks.
Wow, at the very least the sound quality is completely night and day. Nice bit of kit you've got there
Night and day indeed - thanks. It's all for you guys, the viewers.
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Keep up cool vids.
Cheers from Thingyee1118 in England.
Glad to hear it - every subscriber makes that 200 km detour worth it. I hope you'll enjoy my content!
Cheers!
I wonder why video cameras remain so expensive compared to point and shoot cameras ( some of them being able to shoot decen videos...)
It's a smaller market, their optics generally have a much wider range, they have FAR quieter, faster and more accurate mechanics, and there's some kind of royalty on cameras able to film for more than 30 minutes, due to copyright trolls.
Nice camera! Maybe you can try at least filming in 4K. I find the end-result much better when filming and editing in 4K and doing the final render in 1080p. Indeed, editing 4K is sometimes slow. But somehow the extra detail when filming in 4K results in a much nicer 1080p picture. It's a strange, maybe counterintuitive, but well known fenomenom. Sharper, more detail. Shooting 4K and editing in 1080 gives better results as well, though.
Maybe you can give it a try and compare the results? Would be a shame not to use that beautiful sensor to its full capacity!
Higher source res of course gives better picture; you get a higher bit rate. The sacrifice is frame rate since it only does 4K at 24/25 FPS, and storage space/SD card wear. I'll probably try shooting in 4K at some stage, though. At the moment though, I'm just going to stick to 1080P50 while I'm learning how to use the camera.
Now you need to get a proper shotgun mic and you are set!
Oh wow thats a smashing camera :-D.
You're so happy to have a nice camera, i could not stop smiling, im a fool :-D.
The picture is of cause much nicer, but the audio has bass or depth to it now, very nice :-D.
Stop kissing that camera ha ha :-D
Let's not use the word "smashing" in the context of this expensive, new, fragile electromechanical device. ;)
The audio improvements are by far the biggest change. Not only from a quality point of view, but twice as much from a comfort point of view. Having the mic strapped to your camera is NOT a good solution for a one-man operation.
Ooops, its a cracking cam... oh erm :)
lol i have a habit of using "smashing" and i should find a better word really, i should use "Impressive", less alarming perhaps LOL .
***** It's simply explosively great.
just a small improvement on this end but the content is still worth my time.
The demo I did at the end didn't really do justice to the difference between the two cameras, in part because I forgot to set the old one to 50p mode, so it was using 1/25 second exposures in the dark, while the new one was doing 1/50 second, lol.
The biggest difference is going to be in the available camera angles and the audio quality. Since I'm no longer limited to the internal camera microphone, I can actually place the camera where I want it in the future - without sounding as if I'm speaking from two rooms over.
***** I actually did that, and added my rear-facing mic. You can watch it here:
czcams.com/video/NNt4kpLlVKQ/video.html
The jist of it is that an external jack would be cumbersome to add since I'd also have to deal with switching the internal mic off, and mounting the relatively huge jack somewhere.
wow........eyelids over the high end Leica lens......nice
I'm not sure how "high end" it is, really. While it does have a decently larger zoom range, distortion wise it's considerably worse than the kit lens on my ultra-cheap Canon 1000D DSLR.
You should try and get one for UXWbill! Anyways, after searching up these things are damn expensive. Can't wait for the next videos to come
If I recall correct, uxwbill's ISP upload speed is complete garbage. It must take a long time to upload a 45-minute video even on 480p...
Davide424 Yeah I remember a video where he talked about that. Its a shame because I think his video's would be so much better in 720 or even 1080p imo.
FFcossag Yeah, I suppose it is in uxwbills style. Still watch all of his rambling videos. Will you upload in 1080p or move up to like 1440/4k?
daniel15092 Most future videos of mine will be 1080p50. 4K is not worth the bother, and the practical resolution of the sensor and optics doesn't quite justify it. Much like how my old camera would not justify 1080p.
i3lamiat has stolen your video mate! Great review by the way!
I have the older verion of this camera, it has some issues but is ok :)
LMAO new camera smell, oh well can't have everything
Alas that is true, but new camera smell is one of the best smells in the world. Believe it or not, but I actually have a (bad) habit of sniffing my cameras every now and again while using them, just because it satisfies me.
take it apart?
new one that is.. much better video and audio
I'm not taking it apart until I need to. I've been inside enough camcorders to know that there's always a real risk of them not going back together again - and I'd rather shoot at least a couple of videos before that happens. ;)
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expected a tripod... disappointed
Ha - I actually already have a quite fancy fluid head tripod, so that would make for a somewhat superfluous purchase.
Nice to be rich
A rich person would not consider a consumer level camera to be a long-time investment.