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Sony XDCAM HD PDW700 professional camcorder review

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This professional broadcast camcorder from sony has everything the professional broadcaster could want in a modern day digital HD camcorder. To see this camera in more detail and to see some available accessories please see: http://www.creativevideo.co.uk/public/search.php?q=pdw+700&w=1

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  • Brillant camcorder...

    good sound on BLURAY DISC!!!!

  • Hi, thanks for your message ladamasognatrice. Please don't confuse XDCAM discs with BLURAY discs!

    Best regards

    :)

  • The only thing that this camera is lacking is, I believe, 24P capability. If so, this is a strictly an electronic news gathering (ENG) camera. I think that the new PDW-800 has 24P recording, and so it is more geared towards making movies. As far as 50Mbits/sec rate, I think it's still a bit starved. It's only twice the rate of HDV, although one shouldn't compare MPEG-2 with MPEG-4. I still think that the HDCAM with 144Mbits/sec is superior to this, or 100Mbits/sec DVCPRO-HD or AVC-Intra

  • The 700 is actually used to film peak-time UK dramas and History Channel documentaries, but yes it is used for news gathering also.

    This model uses a progressive CCD.

  • OMG!I want this camera!I'm going to be a Professional cameraman and use one of this cameras!:D Awesome video 5/5 stars!

  • Thanks for saying so.

    You know your stuff with a camera like this.

    Peace :)

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  • Best video camera ever made! I would definitely choose this over a RED one or F3. I mean you get proper 1080 progressive 3-CCDs and it has proper media unlike that SxS crap. But since I don't have a $50,000 budget for camera, I'll stick to the XF300.

  • can you record porno with it

  • @CVPTV man how do you get all those camcorders?

  • 45 grand? or 45 hundred

  • $45,000 and you get nothing with it, kinda overboard if you ask me.

  • 10x for the nice review!!!

  • Hi sethroking, This would be quite a hardcore camera for such a feat.

    I would recommend something like the Sony PMW-350K firstly as it is half the price of the PDW-700, it comes with a 16x lens (the 700 does not come with a lens) and it records on solid state SxS cards so an XDCAM deck (expensive) is not require to transfer footage :)

    However, if money is no object and you need 4:2:2 for chroma FX etc, then I can recommend the PDW-700. It really is a beast of a camera.

    Peace :)

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