Comments | cinematog: New HD on the Block

cinematog

New HD on the Block

Aug 11, 2005 19:54

What six-thousand dollars buys these days. Or what producers are likely to rent, to get the DP to shoot them some HD.

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ex_mysolace268 August 12 2005, 04:54:06 UTC

Yeah, I was thinking of going for the HVX. No interchangable lenses, but full uncompressed HD. I'm not a big fan of HDV. Haha, the HVX is ugly as hell - and very consumer-looking - but the way I see it, who cares as long as the movie is rockin'.

Congrats on your promotion!

cinematog August 12 2005, 07:01:20 UTC

Yup. Lens options are always tricky: even the XL-1 wasn't very convincing when I used a manual lens to replace its odd part. Only with film cameras, where you are more likely to use primes and therefore always need to go between your options.

I'm only breaking the surface on these HD alternatives. With the Panasonic, it's being claimed as comparable to the Varicam, shooting miniDV or DVCPRO50, with actual HD resolution. And apparently you can hook it up to a hard drive, too, by USB/Firewire, or one of these camera-friendly drives by Firestore, above FS-4, which is too slow for 100MB/sec. (Although, HD is 192MB/sec.) With the JVC, you're right: HDV, which is at the low-end of HD quality. Now that I realize that, is it easy to recommend the Panasonic?

I'll know more if I shoot with it in a couple of weeks.

Thanks for your congrats. I'll have to post more often. :)

ex_mysolace268 August 21 2005, 04:36:11 UTC

The other issue with the JVC is it seems to produce a great deal of noise, and the color saturation seems to be pretty low. I don't know whether or not you're a fan of cine-like gamma and color, but I am. haha. The resolution is fabulous, but if the image is still going to be producing the cool, unsaturated colors of a VX2000, I don't see the point ( ... )

nomi August 12 2005, 12:21:59 UTC

wow, congratulations! :)