It being a prosumer video cam with some fanciful connection capabilities and all that, why on Earth do you need to do dual system sound pick-up with it, using the Zoom H4n flash memory audio field recorder?

Also, I am not at all sure what the advantage of the two handle bar camera support is, as a person usually uses two hands to hold and operate the camera. If you have a single handle bar rig, you could still use your free hand to operate the camera (focus, zoom, iris sound level, whatnot). But when you have both hands tied-up grabbing at two handle bars, who’s running and operating your camera?

BTW, here is a nice rig sold by B&H and made specifically for the Canon XH-A1, although it costs a cool US$9,950.00.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/543942-REG/Gates_20_15_012_XHA1_G1_Housing_f_Canon_XH_A1.html

Keep in mind, too, that this “item is non-cancelable and non-returnable.” Ouch, that hurts!

I use the exact same rig on a day to day basis bought it over a year ago for my XHA1s

1x Genus mattebox
1x Zoom H4n

hello i am a chinese indie filmmaker(or low budget if you like),can you give a product list of yours “little rig”,the video give me heart attack.

niu bi!

i live near nanluoguxiang btw

With these newfangled DLSRs being 18MP and higher in resolution, I was looking for matching pixerl resolution projectors to watch the video footage captured by them.

Could not find any, and the closest I could find was this mere 10MP, 4K rez projector from JVC for US$ 175,000.

http://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/list_price.jsp?model_id=MDL101894&feature_id=00

This would be a nice match for anyone already having a RED ONE camera, don’t you see? You pay $17,500 for the RED ONE camera without the lens, and then you pay $175,000 for the JVC projector, also without the lens. Both of them are rated at 4K rez. So, just throw in some lenses for the camera and projector and the needed accessories for both, and for only about $250,000 to $300,000, you would have a nice true high-def video shooter’s and presenter’s package.

After all, what’s the reason for shooting at 4K rez and above if you have to then downgrade it to HD immediately just to be able to watch it?

I NEVER heard of a film person bitching about video, as on most pro film set there is always someone running around with a video cam to do behind-the-scenes or test shoots or whatnot. Nobody is lynching the guy/gal with the video camcorder, see?

Nor have I heard a film person desperately trying to use a VIDEO LENS on a FILM CAMERA, for example. On the other hand, there are tons of products and web sites dedicated to make you part with money for trying to affix a FILM LENS onto a VIDEO CAMERA (P+S Technik,. Letus, etc. “DOF” adopters).

There is no “merger” of film or video that I know of. You have one. Or the other. They would “merge” perhaps if you had a hybrid camera and/or projector that would be able to shoot and/or project both film and video at will. I am not aware of any such product as of yet, actually.

Perry, for you it is a constant class struggle out there between film and video. There is no such thing. If you can’t afford shooting on film, or you don’t want to for some aesthetic or pecuniary reason, there is always video. There is certainly nothing wrong with that, and that is why we are all here to beat its drum.