Posted by Toby on 01/11/41 11:48

"Richard Crowley" <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote in message
news:e4vell$tsu$1@news01.intel.com...
> "jho" wrote ...
>> I'm making a 30 sec. commercial and want to achieve a high quality
>> commercial with a limited budget ($2000). Does anyone know if DVCPRO50
>> comes anywhere near 35mm or another format that is inexpensive and high
>> quality?
>
> No NTSC (or PAL) television format recorded by ANY method
> comes anywhere near close to the native resolution of 35mm film.
> NTSC, for example, uses 345600 pixels (720x480) whereas 35mm
> film is regularly scanned at "2K" (2048 x 1556) or "4K" (4096 x 3112)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_resolution
>
> OTOH, don't see how you could shoot either 35mm or DVCpro50
> on a $2K budget.

Richard, how about using a prosumer HDV, such as the Sony Z1 in HD mode?
I've only ever shot with it in SD mode, but I've heard good things about its
HDV capabilities, apart from motion artifacts in MPEG2. Still no match for
35, but probably higher resolution than any SD format. Anybody out there
used HDV?

Toby

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