Posted by Moving Vision on 09/18/05 19:08

Doc, Who ever it is you keep getting 'information' from just talks
bollocks and lots of it. Who ever he/she is couldn't tell his /her
proverbial arse from his/her proverbial elbow and is certainly not
remotely professional or learned on the subject. You might as well go
get your direction from a hair dresser. This convoluting, circular and
increasingly pointless strand about HDV and Z1's has reached it's
ridiculous conclusion. If you think a Panasonic DV100 is a better
camera, in way at all than a Z1 after all the first hand advice that's
been given here then go for it mate. All that stuff about AM radio,
(early FM ???) and colour distortion is just plain silly, as is any
decision to invest good money in Standard definition only 4:3 formats.
Even if you considered the MPEG audio of the Z1 in HDV mode to be
insufficient for music recording the Z1 still provides both DV and DVCAM
mode with 48K PCM and quiet pre-amps that no other compact class,
including the DV100 gets close to, and you have true 16:9 options as
well as HDV and a whole shed load of superior features. You've been
give excellent advice, its been thoroughly explained to you, and yet
you come back with this utter tosh.

I'll get me coat.

In article <lz3Xe.5860$iv5.5707@trndny03>, doc <doc@drdimento.net>
writes
>we've given up on the Sony's altogether because we've learned that the sound
>quality absolutely SUX and that it is somewhere between AM radio and low
>end (early) FM and our show is going to have singing. moreover, we've also
>learned that trying to capture the 16:9 ccd material (SD 16:9) from either
>of the sony's (or any other 16:9 format) into SD 4:3 will result in terrible
>color distortion and even worsen when exported/output to DVD, tape, etc.
>
>thus, looks like we're moving in the direction of native 4:3 like in the
>Panasonic DVX100A.
>
>anyone have any additional thoughts or comments to this conclusion? would
>be most pleased to hear some conjecture. please feel free to be bold. we
>want to find as much a pristine result as is possible for the limited budget
>constraint that we're forced to operate within :o(
>
>doc
>

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John Lubran

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