haha.
Thanks mate.... I don't know why people say those things about ya....!

Just thought I'd mention one other thing as I've just travelled to SE Asia with the 700. Firstly, again, heavy to carry around airports for long periods and not very user friendly as carry on luggage. We now need to take 6 Lithium batteries with us. Our aviation regs stipulate Li-ion batteries can b...

Re archiving issues: what we do at the moment is ingest optical discs into our server, then cut stories and any relevant rushes that need to be kept for file vision are archived to DVCpro tapes, soon to be archived to discs. There is minimal retention of camera discs. So, whatever we shoot is not th...

Nigel Cooper did follow up that review on the 350 with one on the 500 in which he concluded; "There is no way your average ENG guy is going to pop out and spend this kind of money on a 500 when he/she can simply spend £15,000 on the PMW-350 (which includes a decent lens and a bloody good viewfi...

You asked about xdcam disc cameras. I've been using a pdw 700 for a year now. Just come back from a 7 day shoot in SE Asia with the thing. First trip to Asia from Australia since I got it. I tried to get our network to buy the 350 after researching it, mainly because I was starting to suffer physica...