Posted by Antony Lacey on 12/23/02 11:26

doc <doc@drdimento.net> wrote:

> thanks for the input. your description reveals that there's enough
> improvement over a mini dv cam that it's worth spending the money.

I think that's a fair comment yes.

> regarding the panning issue, from what ive read that's an issue with all
> digital cams cause the codec is challenged to "find" a color solution for a
> pixel that is changing even as the capture is taking place, while with film
> it's just a capture "whatever" you get issue. however, as indicated in the
> thread attached to yours, Joe Sixpack will never notice in my minimal pan
> commercials :o) i don't do NASCAR :o)

That makes that part of the equation redundant then!

If you can, get your hands on both the FX1 and Z1 and see which you
prefer - (you probably know this already of course).

It may be you could buy a mixture of them to suit your needs, the Z1 for
audio etc. and the FX1 as a second (or more) camera if you don't need
the extra features for the shots you will be using. Why spend money you
could put somewhere else ?

The benefit of having them all the same is that you don't have to
remember which features are on the camera of course - they look pretty
similar at a glance!

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Antony
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