Comments on: Sony Announces the NEX-EA50 Full HD Pro Camcorder

By: George Socka

George Socka — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:53:00 +0000

I am not a lawyer, but the licence sony provides with the camera for AVCHD says, and I quote from the EA50 manual:page 131 “THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT…FOR PERSONAL USE…WHICH IT DOES NOT RECEIVE RENUMERATION” Their caps, by shortneing. What part of “pro” means “no renumeration” Even the MPEG2 part is for consumers only.

By: Bob Anders

Bob Anders — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:14:00 +0000

Wrong. AVCHD is the future. Just because someone buys an overpriced camera that captures at 50mbps and uses an overpriced capture card doesn’t make it broadcast. I can take video from my NEX EA50 and make it look as good or better than any 50mpbs camera. If you know how to compose a shot, know lighting and how to use your camera, you will always have great shots. HD streaming broadcast is streamed at only 7mbps, so whether you shoot 24 or 50mbps isn’t really the issue at all. I have grown to love AVCHD and even hollywood releases are coming out in AVCHD. Would you call Hollywood “prosumer”? Prosumer im my book are the posers that use DSLR cameras and think they’re professional videographers. They’re much more to it than that.

By: yoyophoto

yoyophoto — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:51:00 +0000

its really interesting and got my attention, until i got to the avchd, why do they and panasonic keep pushing this codec? yes it has advantages but not for any serious profesional.

By: Bill Nuttall

Bill Nuttall — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:57:00 +0000

I have to say I rather enjoyed that press release. For once it reads like it was written by an actual human being rather than the usual PR robot-speak.
“It may be a curious concept…”
“somewhat eccentric looking mutt…”
“users who scoff at the size of this camera…”

By: Jordan Drake

Jordan Drake — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:35:00 +0000

The mechanical shutter is there to eliminate rolling shutter in the still capture, not video recording. Stills shot with an electronic shutter, like the Nikon J1 have rolling shutter issues. A mechanical shutter eliminates that. The EA50 will still have awful rolling shutter in video mode.

By: George Socka

George Socka — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:01:00 +0000

“a mechanical shutter to eliminate rolling shutter artifacts” - pretty sure my Canon 5D has a mechanical shutter ( it goes clunk ) and STILL has rolling shutter issues – caused by the time it takes to process the data from the large sensor. In sony’s case scanning 16 megapixels to capture 2 megapixel’s worth of video. Unless Sony have a better formula or better processors than Canon does.

By: George Socka

George Socka — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:55:00 +0000

prosumer is spelled “AVCHD” and ”SDHC” Sony of course knows how to make descent cameras. Sony also just announced the XDCAM PMW-200 $6200 at BH. Mpeg and SxS. There is no way that 25 mbps AVCHD will ever look as good as 50 mbps mpeg, regardless of the size of the sensor. Even the FS700 ( $9000 at BH ) is still a 24 mbps AVCHD camera. Sad, because its half the price of Canon. And if they ever make 4K work and teh result isnt more AVCHD, it would be agreat camera. Now, you coudl stick an outboard recorder on any of them…

By: Heavy

Heavy — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:36:00 +0000

something about the NEX line just says prosumer