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Posted by doc on 10/16/55 11:26
and the comparison to the canon, what was the outcome?
doc
"Antony Lacey" <allatsea@plug.drivers.org.uk> wrote in message
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> <mmaker@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>> > I can' think of any problems with it as such. Most professional
>> > cameramen I have spoken to have said it's useless at fast panning, but
>> > I
>> > don't need (or plan to) do fast panning. Whether they've tried it or
>> > read this I don't know,
>>
>> Personally I suspect they're talking out of their backsides: I've tried
>> to break the compression with fast pans, but it works OK for me. I
>> wouldn't be surprised if there are some artifacts if you freeze-frame
>> in a pan, but I haven't seen anything significant while watching it as
>> video.
>
> Right-o, that makes me even more likely to go and try it to see if it's
> real or imagined. I've been doing some comparison shots between my Canon
> 750i and the FX1E just to see the difference, I shall have to get round
> to posting them somewhere.
>
>> On the other hand, I _have_ seen awful compression artifacts in
>> broadcast HD when they've done a fast pan on a $100k HDCAM and then
>> compressed it to MPEG-2 for broadcast. So if the shot would break up
>> when shot on a Z1, all that effort and expense they're going to in
>> order to shoot on a format where it won't break up is totally wasted by
>> the time it gets to Joe Sixpack's TV screen.
>
> Thanks for that, I'm quite impressed by this little camera of mine, good
> timing and good fortune led to the purchase, I'm glad I went for it.
>
> --
> Antony
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