I had high hopes for using one of these -and soon. But a conversation w/an engineer at DuArt labs (in the digital dept) put an end to my interest. He told me they have as yet been unable to get a satisfactory blow-up from it, and that they've tried. Sony has wanted a good showing of this on a number of occasions, and so far it's just not happening.
I would see no problem w/using it at all if the end product is video, but I'm avoiding it for any film transfer, until proven wrong. --Somebody will no doubt get Something distributed this year shot w/this camera; maybe it will look relatively o.k., but the progressive-chip cameras from JVC & Panasonic due to show at NAB next month will hopefully prove a lot closer to the film alternative-ideal. And I believe one or both of these unreleased models Will be pretty viable for certain kinds of films, even if still falling far short of S16 quality. The labs transfer tools should be getting better soon, too.
And when the de-interlacers are up to speed w/the rest of what's in the labs' toybox, the FX1/Z1 could certainly be a usable tool for cinema.
