I am in the market to buy an HD camera. The production co. I have been working with has been using Varicams exclusively on their productions, renting them on a day by day basis. They have offered me a long term project, and it seems the time is right to buy my own camera. The prod. co. maintains that the Varicam is superior to the new HDX 900, but I don't think this is true. Their contention is that there is more compression with the HDX and the smaller tapes are incompatible with their editing systems. Nothing I have found on the web indicates this, and I wonder if anyone else has run into this reluctance to use the HDX. I realise there are certain frame rate and camera control issues that favor the varicam, but other than that I feel the HDX is best for my purposes. It is cheaper also! Any imput?
