![]() ![]() The longer and more fun answer: Skateboarders made the VX1000 an institution. The VX’s top-mounted handle and weight (about four pounds) make the camcorder easy to hold and stabilize when you’re cruising around, and the thing is durable enough to sustain being dropped or smacked by an errant skateboard. The MK1, better known as the “death lens,” is still the biggest, roundest fisheye available. The short answer: The VX1000 and Century Optics MK1 fisheye lens just work well for skating. As camcorders progress faster and faster, the lifespan of any given model becomes increasingly shorter, making it harder for older camcorders, especially those as old as the VX1000, to compare to anything current.Īnd yet among skateboarders, the VX continues to be heralded as not merely a useable camcorder, but a preferred one. Bulky tapes that hold one hour of footage have been replaced with thumbnail-sized memory cards that hold five-and-a-half days of footage. Hefty camcorders with resolutions under 500,000 pixels have been made obsolete by cell phone cameras with resolutions of over 12 million pixels. So seeing Jeremy Wray three-sixty over that lens was like, ‘What the fuck is that? I have to figure that out.’”Ĭonsumer video technology has seen extensive innovations since the time Sony introduced the VX1000 in 1995. “The VX1000 and that original Century Optics fisheye, the combination of those two made it this super camera. It was shockingly powerful.” Josh Stewart is telling me about the day he fell in love with the Sony DCR-VX1000 camcorder. ![]() “ Jeremy Wray front three-sixty-ing the Santa Monica triple set was the first thing I saw with that lens and that camera.
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