Posted by Antony Lacey on 12/23/01 11:26

<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.

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Antony
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