Panasonic HC-X1000 4K Camcorder Shoots 50p/60p 4K

fosterchen

I see it has 2 types of USB 3.0 next to the full HDMI out. Would it be able to connect to a USB3 hard drive directly for transferring files, AND have plug-in power for it? That would be nice!

gabilourson

http://shop.panasonic.com/shop/model/HC-X1000

why does it offers 4K only in MP4 ?

driftwood

@fosterchen The unit has full computer mode compatibility with USB 3 Host or Device configurations set on the menu. Device Mode acts as an external device to upload to your NLE system. Host Mode so you can attach an external hard drive so that you can copy over data to and from the internal cards or view thumbnails of stored clips on the hard disk.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Host Mode so you can attach an external hard drive so that you can copy over data to and from the internal cards or view thumbnails of stored clips on the hard disk.

Best was to add ability to record directly on disk.

driftwood

@gabilourson My guess is that come early next year in a firmware update .mov modes may well be supported.

gabilourson

@driftwood thanks dude

davjd

I have a nice P2 cam, but since last year I began to migrate on dslr m43 cinema/video. Now that migration is almost complete it's nice to see what appens on the video cam side, but I'm not going back, I prefer complicated life

s_maurice

Anyone have any realistic time frame till this is available in Australia? Yep, want it that bad :)

RRRoger

Originally this CamCorder was able to do 1080 P120. Is this still available or has the firmware been crippled?

Are there any low light Video samples available? Most of my video work is indoors in poor light.

fosterchen

"The X1000 has a 1/2.3-inch BSI CMOS sensor with a total of 18.9 megapixels, although only an 8.3 megapixel center crop is used to create the UHD image. "- See more at: http://www.studiodaily.com/2014/09/panasonics-hc-x1000-is-a-4k-run-and-gun-camcorder-for-3500/?hq_e=el&hq_m=2945014&hq_l=5&hq_v=e1cf324cc1#sthash.EarCok4m.dpuf

So it's really only using less than half of the already tiny sensor?

Vitaliy_Kiselev

FeriGGGG

watch from 10:30

mpgxsvcd

@FeriGGGG

I bet Panasonic wishes they hadn’t given him that camera to test. He shouldn’t have used a proto-type camera for a Production shoot though.

MikeLinn

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Some samples

FeriGGGG

Vitaliy, any other conclusions from ixbt tests for us who dont speak russian?

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Vitaliy, any other conclusions from ixbt tests for us who dont speak russian?

I suggest to use google translate. I am not fan of their test, suggest to check others. But they made lot of bad samples :-)

MikeLinn

Manual - https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/hdw/oi/X1000/index.html

Vitaliy_Kiselev

ogodude

I have been using the camera and despite being very feature rich and having the usual good Panasonic color quality and sharpness, find it to be extremely handicapped by its (effective) native iso of approximately 50-64. For shooting indoors live events it is unnacceptable to me. I am under exposed at 20 (!!) db of gain, and extremely noisy even downressed to 1080p from the 4k. Whereas with comparable 5 year old+ camcorders that shoot 1080p I am using 6 db of gain at the same f/stop and the final image is cleaner in terms of noise.

Extremely disappointing for me. Camera is basically next to useless indoors due to this.. Imagine shooting a regular camcorder indoors with and ND.9 and you get the idea.