{"id":847,"date":"2010-01-13T13:15:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=847"},"modified":"2010-01-13T13:15:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:15:38","slug":"new-sony-hdr-ax2000-delivers-pro-camera-features-without-pro-camera-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/new-sony-hdr-ax2000-delivers-pro-camera-features-without-pro-camera-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"New Sony HDR-AX2000 Delivers Pro Camera Features Without Pro Camera Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The line between professional and consumer level video cameras continues to blur with Sony&#8217;s latest offering, the <strong>HDR-AX2000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This new video camera, aimed at the prosumer market, produces broadcast quality footage while recording in the AVCHD format.\u00a0 The camera records full 1920&#215;1080\/60i high-definition video at up to 24Mbps and features progressive scan at 1080\/24p and 30p.\u00a0 That means you can get full HD video with a gorgeous film-like effect.<\/p>\n<p>As I always say, with video cameras you get what you pay for.\u00a0 And you&#8217;ll pay more for the <strong>HDR-AX2000 <\/strong>than you will for my favorite consumer-level cameras from the Canon Vixia line.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange you&#8217;ll get XLR mic inputs, three 1\/3 CMOS sensors, a wide angle lens, gamma and color correctors, high-quality, low-light recording and a ton of manual control&#8230;among a host of other things.\u00a0 In other words, many of the things that make cameras shoot video &#8220;like you see on TV&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The one slight drawback is the camera records to Memory Stick PRO Duo media cards (like all Sony cameras) instead of the industry standard SDHC memory cards.\u00a0 So you&#8217;ll need to invest an extra $100 or so in Memory Stick cards if you don&#8217;t have them.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>HDR-AX2000<\/strong> is set to be available on February 8, 2010 and carries a MSRP of $3,499.\u00a0 Yes, that&#8217;s twice the cost of high-end, consumer-level video cameras, but much cheaper than what you&#8217;ll fork over for professional-level cameras.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the Amazon listing for the Sony HDR-AX2000 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sony-HDR-AX2000-H-Handycam%C2%AE-camcorder\/dp\/B0031RGKZ8\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=electronics&amp;qid=1263401011&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The line between professional and consumer level video cameras continues to blur with Sony&#8217;s latest offering, the HDR-AX2000. This new video camera, aimed at the prosumer market, produces broadcast quality footage while recording in the AVCHD format.\u00a0 The camera records full 1920&#215;1080\/60i high-definition video at up to 24Mbps and features progressive scan at 1080\/24p and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[411,410],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}