![]() ![]() INTRODUCING THE WORLD’S FIRST* HIGH- DEFINITION© CONSUMER** CAMCORDER† WHICH IS AVAILABLE IN BLACK‡ AND BLACK ONLY! But that I haven’t used it for the past seven years is a mark of how much a) my creative passions have shifted, and b) how far digital video has come. The second part, well, I’m not making a living out of making films, so that bit didn’t happen, but I enjoyed studying film and making films and doing some paid gigs with this camera on the side. You know how they say VCE results don’t matter? Well this one did, and I have the certificate to prove it (I imagine this is how those who were good at sport at school and won a trophy by kicking the ball through the poles in the final second of gameplay time to win the match feel looking back on their accomplishments). I used the camera extensively for my VCE Studio Arts class and achieved a perfect study score of 50 for it. This cutting-edge camera was going to be the tool to create my artistic vision in Studio Arts and become my entry into the glamorous world of filmmaking. Pulling the camera out of its Pelican case for the first time in years brought back all the (linear tape-based) memories of when I bought it way back in 2005. It got me thinking - sure, still photography has come a long way, but hasn’t video come further? In which I am an Earnest Young FilmmakerĪ Portrait of the Writer as an Earnest Young Filmmaker Its tape-based capture technology has long since passed into (solid state) memory and, as trite as it is to point it out, a mid-range mobile phone takes better video than this thing did. ![]() It sold for $6,000 back in the day, but is barely worth a tenth of that today. It’s a camera that helped drive my creativity and love for the still and moving image. I was recently reunited with a piece of kit I’d not used in a long time…a long time: a video camera! But not just any video camera, the first consumer ‘full’ high-definition camcorder, the HDR- FX1E. If you miss a shot with your 425 autofocus points, 3D matrix metering and 42.5 megapixels, that’s on you, crappy photographer. From a clunky 3.1 megapixel ‘compact’ ($2,000+ back in the day), to the unobtanium that was a 128mb SmartMedia card ($270 ‘never run out of space again!’), photography has reached a point where the gear almost doesn’t matter at all. Sony HDR- FX1 (Sony Press Image from 2004)Īnyone who’s bought a new camera over the past fifteen years can tell you how far digital photography has come. ![]()
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