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Dear Mr. Oshiro Thank you very much for your valubale opinion. Now I will take my decision. Price difference is almost 2400 GBP. I have to think this 2400 GBP extra what will give me in future. I live in Bangladesh so I have to check now Singapore market regarding the price. Thank you all for helping me. Warm regards

Thanks for your wish for us. Hope someday we will share our gained knowledge with you. Meanwhile can you help me providing a suggestion should I buy a Sony DSR 400PAL or Sony DSR 450 WS. I have the idea regarding the price but no idea with the technical advantage. Will look for your valuable opinion. Good luck.

Congrats! :D Can you please tell me what is the major difference with Sony DSR-400PAL of yours one? Price difference is alomost 50% . Your one is 50% premium priced. I need comments from Sony DSR 400 PAL user also to take my decision to buy one. Whether I should go with 400 or 450. Thanks for helping me. Regards.

Ohh! What a report! I am amused!!! Thanks Jef to share the report with us. It helps me a lot for future work. Does anybody have similar report or findings with Sony DSR 400 and JVC GY HD 100U? Please share in this thread or kindly open a new thread. Thanks once again. www.adexpressions.com

Thanks Mr. David and Mr. Brian. I am very sorry to post lot of stupid questions in the forum. Please pardon me for my stupid questions and poor knowledge. As a matter of fact in our country we don?t have this kind of high-tech knowledge institute or personnel who can give us some light. I stayed in Bangladesh which is a developing country in South East Asia. Usually we purchase our Camera and other equipments from Singapore. We do not have any shop or dealer in Bangladesh. There are 7 channels in Bangladesh. One is govt. owned terrestrial channel and other 6 are private satellite channels. Very recent we are moving from Beta Cam to DV cam. Till now our govt. channel only receive Beta tape and other channels receive both Beta and DV tape. Here is only one Digi Beta camera and only one smoke machine. Now a day some of the young editors start working with FCP, Matrox Axio etc. A new generation young?s mostly Director like me who are fortunate to some extent travel Singapore, Bangkok or Mumbai basically trying this new things to introduce in our industry. We don?t have any academic background, no film institute, no DOP workshop going on ever, no dealer shop to check the camera, no lab to see the results of other works. What we have? Interest, eager to know more about techniques and equipments form you people who are enlightened and experience enough. Who are fortunate enough to touch, feel the latest equipments, can take rental and shoot some demo stock with reasonable/affordable cost. May be in future we may be get the things in our country, we are hopeful. By the time we are seeking information, hang on the net to learn from you guys and share among others like minded fellows in our industry. You know when there is only one Sony DSR 570 in our industry all we went there and try to touch the camera for getting the feel. We always hang on the STAR channels and think how we can make our production close to that quality with affordable price. Some of us joined every year to the Asia Pacific Ad Fest to see the latest work. Our industry has some Beta and DV cameras. Lot more we want to buy individually to enhance our work. The business people only think about to make money with the cheaper cost camera but we want to look into the quality also with affordable price. That?s why I want to invest in upgrade camera and editing panel. Here in Bangladesh usually a DV/Beta camera rental is USD 50/fllday. And editing panel rental is USD 40/8hours. I am thanking you for having patience on my stupid questions but I am sorry, I can?t help myself. I want to learn and get informed to buy my camera within this month. Thank you very very much to giving me lights. Best wishes to all of you. Warm regards

Thanks everybody to write your experience in this thread. It is very interesting and I learnt a lot. I would like to buy a camera not very expensive. Gradulally I will buy other gears, eg. lenses, mini-35 etc.. I live in Bangladesh and here the available rental camera is : 1. BetaCam SP 2. Digi Beta 3. Sony DV 400, 450, DSR 570 etc My purpose to buy : 1. To shooting my TV serials and documentary 2. To shooitng my TV commercials 3. To give rental Can anybody suggest which camera should I buy? HDV : JVC or Sony or Canon and WHY ? HVX : which one and what is the differnce with DV or HDV DV : which model? Here in Bangladesh usually camera rental is USD 45/day. So I have to think about my ROI also. Should I need to buy matte box? how this will help in the shooting, quality aspect. Pl help me in this regards. pardon me for my poor knowledge. Warm regards to all of you. Best wihses to your success. Dream Merchant

Thanks for the reply. Sir I would like to hear your opinion which camera should I go for? I would like to shoot TV serials , documentary and TV commercials with that camera. In future I will try to shoot mini 35 with this after buying some lenses. No Idea whether it will be ok with or not. What kind of accesories you are talking about for the camera kit? I will buy matte box, tripod and field monitor. Looking for any comments on tripod and field monitor but nobody talks about this. I got some information regarding tripod and came to a conclusion that LIBEC might be better for me. What is your suggestion? Field monitor not yet have any idea. Waiting for professionals and experienced opinion from the seniors. Pl help me. HELP best regards a:

Great to hear from you! Thanks for helping me. I knew that the DSR 400 is much higher priced than my budget but I also heard that HDV is much better than DV camera. Is it true? What is HDV pro-sumer? I read about Sony HVR Z1, JVC HDV CAnon XL2 etc. in the net. Are they professional camera's? I am now using hired DV cam or DG beta for Ad and drama serial shooting. But I am setting up my mind to buy a professional camera on my own. I may start my own work with my camera as well as I can give that camera rent out for other to use. Whats your suggestion now? I need experienced help. REgards

Hi! Why not you consider JVC or Sony Z1? are they are not good? I need hlp in this regard to choose a camera, can you pl help me? I'm looking for a camera for my panel. I have a plan to setup my editing panel within 15days with FCP studio 5.1. I heard Sony DSR 400 is a professional DV cam which can capture broadcast quality photography. I don?t know whether this is correct or not. My budget around USD 6000/=. I can also spend a little high if there is any better facility available. How about HDV or HD cam? Is it more expensive? How much an entry level professional camera (compare to DSR 400) will cost? Any idea? Any Suggestion! What is the basic difference of DV and HDV? May I shoot the ad film with both? Which will be better? Pardon me for my poor knowledge, please. Thanks. Dream Merchant

Dear all: I have a little idea about editing software and machines. But I need the expert opinion from any of you. I would like to set up an edit machine. I would like to use DV and HDV camera. In our country broadcast out put only in DV and Betacam SP. Also we need mpeg file to write in DVD to show rough edits to the clients. Here in Bangladesh most of the editors are friendly with PC based software and few are friendly with MAC based software. I am looking for less trouble giving machine and long life machine at least 5 years I can work on that. Otherwise my investment will not get back. Which platform and software (PC or MAC) will give me the future opportunity to be in line with coming technology? Considering price and all other aspect can anybody give me an advice . I will be grateful. I have received two quotations for both MAC and PC almost same. Followings are the specifications. Can anybody suggest me which machine will be better option for me. Power PC G5 QUAD Two dual-core 2.5GHz PowerPC G5 processors 1.25GHz frontside bus per processor 4.5 GB of 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-4200) 250GB Serial ATA hard drive 16x SuperDrive (double-layer) NVIDIA GeForce 6600 with 256MB GDDR SDRAM Apple 20" LCD Monitor Final Cut Studio 5.1 Audio mixter : Yamaha MG 16/4 16-channel audio mixer And for PC Processor 3.5 Xeon Intell Original Mother board (super micro, server, Agp slot 1, Pci slot 5 ) RAM 3giga Casing Server (duel power supply) Dual agp (any company) CSI controller Scasi Hard disc 70g Satta hard disc 300gb 2pcs (Raid) Capture card Canopus NX or Matrox Axion(need HP brand machine) I am now in Bangladesh. All the IT products usually imported from Singapore, Bangkok or China. For both MAC and PC according to the specification it will cost me around 10,000/= USD (each). I would like to start my business but I am confused which platform I will use for long service and return on Investment. By the way here in Bangladesh editing panel cost 50 USD/hour with machine rental and editor's remuneration. Any suggestion! THANKS FOR THE HELP.

size=7]Hello Everybody! :D I'm looking for a camera for my panel. I have a plan to setup my editing panel within 15days with FCP studio 5.1. I heard Sony DSR 400 is a professional DV cam which can capture broadcast quality photography. I don?t know whether this is correct or not. My budget around USD 6000/=. I can also spend a little high if there is any better facility available. How about HDV or HD cam? Is it more expensive? How much an entry level professional camera (compare to DSR 400) will cost? Any idea? Any Suggestion! What is the basic difference of DV and HDV? May I shoot the ad film with both? Which will be better? Pardon me for my poor knowledge, please. Keep continue on this pl. Thanks to the moderator and the members to help me. Dream Merchant