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At that price, the A1 seems poised to compete directly with the Z1 from Sony, although rumor has it another 'rev' of that unit may be possible by the October time frame. Personally, $3000K seems like a lot for the upgrade to the G1, but I guess some will need it.

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Benjamin - Neo-Fight.tv]]>Jul 26th 2006 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/26/canon-unveils-dual-hdv-followups-to-prosumer-gl2/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/26/canon-unveils-dual-hdv-followups-to-prosumer-gl2/I totally agree with your opinion with the price differences, however, from what i can see, it is correct
For the XL H1, you pay roughly around 10k. take away the interchangable lens and you get the XH G1. Lets say that the lens on the XL H1 is $1500. Take those away, and the pricing of the XH G1 should be around $7000.

As for the XH A1, i think it is over priced. Sony's camera has been out for at least a year and half and now that canon released their product, it seems like they are over pricing it. I feel that it should be roughly around $3000 if they want to get customers. As from what i can see, the main difference they have is that Canon has:
-20x zoom,
-XLR inputs
As for sony (FX1 which can be purchased for rougly $3000):
-14x zoom
-no xlr
-has a manual servo lens
As for sony's z1u (roughly $5000 last time i looked) is like the fx1, but with added features mainly the XLR as i recall. Something to me just doesnt seem right. Ill have to wait for the prices to go down before i go splurging for one... ]]>Jul 26th 2006 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/26/canon-unveils-dual-hdv-followups-to-prosumer-gl2/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/26/canon-unveils-dual-hdv-followups-to-prosumer-gl2/
For the amount of money Canon (Sony too) spent on the r&d to develop this fake 24fps mode, I'm sure they could have made a real 24fps mode instead. JVC has it on their HDV cameras.

The more expensive model is in the same price category as Panasonic's HVX200, which, although it has its faults, uses a much better compression scheme (DVC Pro HD) than the Mpeg-2 based HDV format used by Sony and Canon (and JVC).]]>Jul 26th 2006 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/26/canon-unveils-dual-hdv-followups-to-prosumer-gl2/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/26/canon-unveils-dual-hdv-followups-to-prosumer-gl2/Jul 26th 2006 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/26/canon-unveils-dual-hdv-followups-to-prosumer-gl2/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/26/canon-unveils-dual-hdv-followups-to-prosumer-gl2/Jul 31st 2006 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/26/canon-unveils-dual-hdv-followups-to-prosumer-gl2/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/26/canon-unveils-dual-hdv-followups-to-prosumer-gl2/
If I do, what do I do with it? I make travel and animal documentaries, with the more detail, the better. My end product is a DVD (Blu Ray in the future). So... "a" or "g?" ]]>Aug 5th 2006 1:12AM