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Posted by mv on 05/08/06 11:13
In message <1147072488.261280.15430@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
woodenbicycle@hotmail.com writes
>How does the Sony DSR-PD170 compare to the JVC GY-DV500 in terms of
>overall picture quality?
>
>I have acquired a taste for video production related to some projects
>I'm working on and it seems like it'll be much, much easier for me to
>just own my own camcorder. I have heard great things about the JVC
>GY-DV500 (which seems to compare well to the Sony DSR-300) and I have
>also heard great things about the little Sony DSR-PD170.
>
>I'm leaning towards the PD170 for it's compact size and appx. $3000
>price for a brand new camcorder and accessories. The DV500 is also
>tempting, it's larger and I'm better at holding large camcoders that I
>am small camcorders, but the vast majority of my shots will be tripod
>anyway.
>
>DV500 has 1/2" CCDs and a nice big lens, but its CCDs are older than
>the 1/3" CCDs in the PD170, a camcorder known for great low light color
>and quality. PD170 would be a lot easier to port around, but I'm
>partial to larger camcorders.
>
>So, for me, it's coming down to picture quality. How does the DSR-170
>compare to the GY-DV500 in terms of overall picture quality?
>
Having worked with both I'd rather have the PD170. The DV500 may have
the potential to improve through fitting a better lens, the standard one
that comes with it is a 'pretend' lens and not as good as the really
quite decent Carl Zeiss fixed to the PD170. However because the DV500 is
3 x 1/2" CCD type, rather than the standard 2/3" type, the lens options
are not that great except by spending so much money it defeats the whole
premise. The PD170's 1/3" CCD's maybe smaller but they are more advanced
HAD types. In my own side by side tests the PD170 pictures were markedly
superior in terms of clean well defined and realistic images as
opposed to the somewhat unnatural and almost SVHS looking texture of the
DV500. Additionally the PD170 provides DVCAM. The BBC has over 1,000 of
them, now being slowly replaced with Z1's. The DV500 is favoured
poseurs, low budget corporate and wedding videographers who feel a need
to impress their incognicent clients with a camera that looks, to them,
like a broadcast type.
--
John Lubran
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