that makes handheld shooting smooth and natural. The camcorder's 20x optical zoom lens contains an impressive wide angle lens at 24.5mm (35mm equivalent) with 32x Intelligent Zoom and 5Axis Hybrid I.S. The full-featured camcorder contains a 1.0' CMOS sensor and offers 4K image capture with 10-bit codecs such as ALL-I, 422LongG and HEVC LongG. The CX350 is one of the lightest 4K 10-bit fixed-lens camcorders on the market. The two key features of Ver 3.02 include the inclusion of P2 HD format recording for news shooters, and the addition of V-Log to capture wide dynamic range. 3.02) for the AG-CX350 4K Handheld Camcorder that brings exciting versatility for both ENG and cinema-style shooters. I would find a new rental source personally, the economy and production are in tatters and their a lot of hungry rental companies out there who will want to earn your business.Panasonic just released a major firmware update ( Ver. When a rental house sends out defective gear, it is their responsibility to make good on the rental, either by replacing the camera during the shoot or offering to refund the rental fee.

This, 'all 200s have back focus issues' is a crock. If I rented a camera and it was defective, I would demand my rental fee back. Seeing as HVX's are rapidly approaching beoing worth only about $2,000.00 used, a $1,200.00 repair doesn't make financial sense, it would make more sense to just buy a new camera for the rental house. But as far as doing traditional lens repair like you would on a detachable lens, you can't do it on an HVX. With almost any problems with the lens, the entire lens assembly must be replaced, it is pretty expensive, he told me about $1,200.00 inc. I have used a local repair shop who is a Panasonic approved whiz at HVX200 repairs and he told me that you cannot do anything to 'repair' the HVX200 lens, Panasonic made it that way. Then run your focus test and if it still loses focus from zoomed in to wide angle, the camera is broken and needs to have the lens element replaced.

Hook it up to a 17' or larger HD monitor. The 170 has the same monitor but they tweaked it to display a lot more peaking so it is easier to judge focus with it than the 200. How are you judging focus? Only using the LCD and focus enhancement? You really need to hook it up to a decent sized HD monitor, the LCD on the 200 is not very good so you really have to have a lot of hours under your belt with the camera to accurately judge focus using just the LCD IMHO.

The only way for a fixed lens camera to have a back focus issue is if the camera has been dropped or jarred and a lens element has come loose or become tweaked. This is B.S., not all 200s have back focus issues.

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